Course Overview

This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphereâ 8, which includes VMware ESXiä 8 and VMware vCenterâ 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.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• 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® ClientTMto 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 VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource SchedulerTM
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

Target Audience

• System administrators
• System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

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

Certification

Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:

VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Delivery Options

• Classroom
• Live Online
• Private Training
• On Demand

Product Alignment

• VMware ESXi 0
• VMware vCenter 0