VMware vSphere: Install Configure Manage [8.0]

Overview

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. This course is the foundation for most VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

• Product Alignment

• VMware ESXi 8.0
• VMware vCenter 8.0
• VMware vSphere

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® Client™ to 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 Scheduler™

• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date

Target Audience

• System administrators

• Systems engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Audience

• System administrators

• System engineers