This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. 

This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
• Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
• Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
• Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource allocation
• Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

• Module 1: Course Introduction
• Module 2: vSphere and Virtualization Overview
• Module 3: Installing and Configuring ESXi
• Module 4: Deploying and Configuring vCenter
• Module 5: Configuring vSphere Networking
• Module 6: Configuring vSphere Storage
• Module 7: Deploying Virtual Machines
• Module 8: Managing Virtual Machines
• Module 9: Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
• Module 10: Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

• System administrators
• System engineers

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems