VMware vSphere: Fast Track Training [V8]

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$6,475.00 USD

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5 Days

 

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Course Overview

This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

What Is Included

  • Expert-led training with real-world VMware scenarios
  • Official VMware courseware and extended hands-on labs
  • Certificate of completion
  • Guaranteed-to-run dates (when marked)

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently administer VMware vSphere 8 in enterprise environments.

  • Install and configure VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
  • Create and manage virtual machines, templates, and content libraries
  • Migrate workloads using vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
  • Configure and maintain clusters with High Availability, DRS, and Fault Tolerance
  • Monitor, update, and ensure compliance using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for:

  • System Administrators responsible for deploying and maintaining virtual infrastructure
  • System Engineers who manage VMware vSphere environments at scale
  • IT professionals seeking advanced VMware training in a single, accelerated format
  • Top-rated instructors: Our crew of subject matter experts have an average instructor rating of 4.8 out of 5 across thousands of reviews.
  • Authorized content: We maintain more than 35 Authorized Training Partnerships with the top players in tech, ensuring your course materials contain the most relevant and up-to date information.
  • Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
  • Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
  • Private Group Training: Let our world-class instructors deliver exclusive training courses just for your employees. Our private group training is designed to promote your team’s shared growth and skill development.
  • Tailored Training Solutions: Our subject matter experts can customize the class to specifically address the unique goals of your team.

What is the VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] course? Is it worth it?

This accelerated five-day program takes you from foundational to advanced VMware vSphere 8 administration. You’ll learn to install and configure ESXi hosts, deploy vCenter, and manage clusters to ensure performance and uptime. For IT professionals, vSphere expertise remains one of the most in-demand virtualization skills, with VMware administrators earning on average $95,000–$115,000 annually.

Will this course help me deploy and configure VMware vCenter and ESXi hosts?

Yes. You’ll practice installing ESXi, deploying the vCenter Server Appliance, organizing inventory, assigning permissions, and configuring vCenter High Availability.

Will this course help me manage and optimize vSphere clusters?

Absolutely. The course covers enabling vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, and Fault Tolerance so you can balance workloads, prevent downtime, and maintain resilient operations.

Does this course prepare me for a VMware certification exam?

Yes. The skills gained align directly with the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification exam, helping you advance your VMware career path.

Does the training include hands-on labs?

Yes. You’ll work through extended labs designed to simulate real-world tasks, including VM deployment, workload migration, cluster configuration, and performance monitoring.

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Course Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Agenda

Course Introduction

  • Welcome, introductions, and course logistics
  • Review of course objectives

vSphere and ESXi Fundamentals

  • Core concepts of virtualization
  • Role of vSphere in the software-defined data center and cloud infrastructure
  • Interfaces used to access vSphere
  • How vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
  • Installation of an ESXi host

vCenter Server Management

  • Communication between ESXi hosts and vCenter
  • Deploying and configuring the vCenter Server Appliance
  • Adjusting vCenter settings and managing license keys
  • Creating and organizing vCenter inventory objects
  • Applying vCenter permissions and understanding rules
  • Viewing vSphere tasks and events
  • Setting up vCenter backup schedules
  • Importance and operation of vCenter High Availability

vSphere Networking

  • Configuring and viewing standard switch setups
  • Configuring and viewing distributed switch setups
  • Differences between standard and distributed switches
  • Applying networking policies on standard and distributed switches
  • Configuring and managing vSphere distributed switches
  • Using Network I/O Control to improve performance
  • Introduction to vSphere Distributed Services Engine and its use cases

vSphere Storage

  • Overview of vSphere storage technologies
  • Types of vSphere datastores
  • Fibre Channel components and addressing
  • iSCSI components and addressing, including configuration on ESXi
  • Creating and managing VMFS datastores
  • Configuring and managing NFS datastores
  • Support for NVMe and iSER technologies
  • Architecture and requirements for vSAN
  • Policy-based storage management
  • vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture
  • Configuring Storage I/O Control

Deploying Virtual Machines

  • Creating and provisioning VMs
  • Role and importance of VMware Tools
  • Files and components that make up a VM
  • Exploring VM settings and options in the vSphere Client
  • Dynamically increasing VM resources
  • Creating VM templates and deploying from them
  • Cloning virtual machines
  • Creating customization specifications for guest operating systems
  • Creating local, published, and subscribed content libraries
  • Deploying VMs from content libraries
  • Managing multiple template versions in content libraries

Managing Virtual Machines

  • Types of VM migrations within and across vCenter instances
  • Using vSphere vMotion and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
  • Migrating VMs with vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Creating, managing, and deleting snapshots
  • CPU and memory concepts in virtualized environments
  • Resource competition among VMs
  • Shares, reservations, and limits for CPU and memory
  • Role and configuration of a VMware Tools Repository
  • Backup and restore options for VMs

vSphere Cluster Management

  • Using Cluster Quickstart to enable vSphere cluster services
  • Viewing and interpreting cluster information
  • How vSphere DRS determines VM placement
  • DRS settings and use cases
  • Monitoring a DRS cluster
  • vSphere HA response to different failures
  • Network redundancy options in a HA cluster
  • Use cases for HA settings
  • Configuring clusters with HA and DRS
  • When to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • Function of vCLS and its impact on operations

Lifecycle and ESXi Operations

  • Generating vCenter interoperability reports
  • Features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • ESXi images and image depots
  • Enabling Lifecycle Manager in a cluster
  • Validating host compliance and remediation with Lifecycle Manager
  • Automatic recommendations in Lifecycle Manager
  • Upgrading VMware Tools and VM hardware with Lifecycle Manager
  • Managing ESXi configuration compliance with host profiles
  • Benefits of using configuration profiles

vSphere Monitoring and Optimization

  • Key factors that impact VM performance
  • Factors that influence vCenter performance
  • Using vCenter tools to monitor resource consumption
  • Creating and managing custom alarms in vCenter
  • Benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline
  • Use cases for Skyline Advisor Pro
 

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