This five-day course provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere® 7 administrative tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through lab-based activities, students are immersed in real-life situations faced by VMBeans, a fictitious company.  These situations expose students to real-life scenarios faced by companies that are building and scaling their virtual infrastructure.

This course uses scenario-based lab exercises and does not provide guided step-by-step instructions. To complete the scenario-based lab exercises, you are required to analyze the task, research, and deduce the required solution. References and suggested documentation are provided.

Approximately 90% of the class is application-focused and taught through labs.  The course aligns fully with the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy exam objectives.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Enable cluster features and configure vSphere storage and networking
• Use host profiles to automate host configurations
• Use Cluster Quickstart to create a VMware vSAN™ enabled cluster
• Configure the VMware vCenter Server® identity provider
• Troubleshoot host connectivity and storage connectivity 
• Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
• Implement security hardening guidelines to vSphere and virtual machines

• Course Introduction
• Creating and Configuring Management Clusters
• Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters
• Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations
• Lifecycle Management
• vSphere Security

• System administrators
• System engineer

This course requires the following prerequisites:

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification
• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems