Course Information
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.
- System administrators
- System engineers
- Install and configure ESXi hosts to establish a virtualization environment.
- Deploy and configure vCenter to centralize management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
- Utilize the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to users for efficient administration.
- Configure vCenter High Availability to ensure continuous availability of vCenter services.
- Establish virtual networks using both vSphere standard switches and distributed switches to facilitate communication between virtual machines and external networks.
- Create and configure datastores utilizing storage technologies supported by vSphere to store virtual machine data.
- Utilize the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots for efficient virtual machine management.
- Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository efficiently.
- Establish content libraries to streamline template management and facilitate virtual machine deployment.
- Manage virtual machine resource allocation to optimize performance and resource utilization.
- Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion for workload mobility and resource optimization.
- Configure a vSphere cluster with features such as vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to enhance availability and resource management.
- Manage the life cycle of vSphere components, including vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines, to ensure they remain up to date and compliant with organizational requirements.
- Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage solutions tailored for large and sophisticated enterprise environments.
- Utilize host profiles to maintain compliance and standardize configuration across VMware ESXi hosts.
- Monitor the performance of vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines in the vSphere Client to identify and address performance issues effectively.
