VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8.0 Course

Name: VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage v8.0
Price: 4250.00 USD
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$4,250.00 USD

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5 Days

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Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

Want to run, secure, and scale enterprise virtualization like a pro? Over 70% of enterprise workloads run on virtualized infrastructure, and VMware vSphere leads the industry in scalability and performance. IT professionals with the skills to install, configure, and manage VMware platforms are essential to modern data center teams.

This intensive, five-day training program offers immersive hands-on training in VMware vSphere v8. You’ll gain experience with ESXi, vCenter Server, virtual networking, storage, content libraries, high-availability clusters, and Lifecycle Manager. The course provides the technical foundation required to support, automate, and optimize virtualized enterprise infrastructure using VMware’s latest tools and best practices.

Course Objectives

This course prepares you to build, configure, and manage vSphere environments that meet enterprise performance and availability standards. By the end, you’ll be equipped to support scalable, secure, and efficient virtual infrastructure operations.

Install and configure ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
Create and manage virtual machines, templates, and snapshots
Set up and manage virtual networking and storage
Deploy HA-enabled clusters and configure DRS policies
Apply updates and manage host compliance with Lifecycle Manager

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for:

System administrators responsible for deploying and supporting virtualized infrastructure
System engineers managing VMware environments in enterprise data centers
Professionals looking to gain practical VMware experience or pursue VMware certification

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What is VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8.0 training?

This five-day course provides expert-led, hands-on training in how to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 8 infrastructure. You'll gain practical experience with ESXi, vCenter, virtual machines, storage, and Lifecycle Manager.

How will this training benefit my career?

This course delivers practical, in-demand skills for managing VMware vSphere environments—making it a valuable asset for IT professionals in system administration, infrastructure, and virtualization roles. It provides hands-on experience with tools like ESXi, vCenter, and Lifecycle Manager, supports readiness for VMware certification, and helps you advance into roles that require scalable, enterprise-grade infrastructure expertise.

Will this course help me configure high availability clusters?

Yes. You’ll learn how to create and configure clusters using vSphere HA and DRS, set failover and load balancing policies, and manage cluster performance and redundancy.

Will this course help me upgrade and manage ESXi hosts?

Absolutely. You’ll use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to validate compliance, apply patches, update host images, and upgrade VM hardware and VMware Tools.

Is this course part of a VMware certification pathway?

Yes. This training supports the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification. It covers the core skills and technologies tested on the exam, including ESXi, vCenter, virtual machines, networking, storage, clusters, and lifecycle management—making it an excellent preparation step for earning your VCP-DCV credential.

Learning Credits: Learning Credits can be purchased well in advance of your training date to avoid having to commit to specific courses or dates. Learning Credits allow you to secure your training budget for an entire year while eliminating the administrative headache of paying for individual classes. They can also be redeemed for a full year from the date of purchase. If you have previously purchased a Learning Credit agreement with New Horizons, you may use a portion of your agreement to pay for this class.

If you have questions about Learning Credits, please contact your Account Manager.

Course Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Agenda

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 vSphere and Virtualization Overview

Explain basic virtualization concepts
Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

3 Installing and Configuring ESXi

Install an ESXi host
Recognize ESXi user account best practices
Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

4 Deploying and Configuring vCenter

Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
Configure vCenter settings
Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
View vCenter logs and events

5 Configuring vSphere Networking

Configure and view standard switch configurations
Configure and view distributed switch configurations
Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

6 Configuring vSphere Storage

Recognize vSphere storage technologiesv
Identify types of vSphere datastores
Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
Describe iSCSI components and addressing
Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
Create and manage VMFS datastores
Configure and manage NFS datastores

7 Deploying Virtual Machines

Create and provision VMs
Explain the importance of VMware Tools
Identify the files that make up a VM
Recognize the components of a VM
Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
Clone VMs
Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
Deploy VMs from content libraries
Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

8 Managing Virtual Machines

Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instancesv
Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
Take a snapshot of a VM
Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
Describe how VMs compete for resources
Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

9 Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
View information about a vSphere cluster
Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
Configure a vSphere HA cluster
Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

10 Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle ManagerTM
Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
Describe how to update hosts using baselines
Describe ESXi images
Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware