VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v8 Training

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems Understanding of basic datacenter infrastructure, enterprise networking, and storage concepts

Course Description

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. It is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center and meets the training requirement to achieve the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification.

Learning Objectives

• Install and configure ESXi hosts
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server
• Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles
• 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 and deploy virtual machines from templates
• Manage virtual machine resource use and migrate VMs with vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
• Manage the vSphere lifecycle using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Course Outline

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