VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8]

Last Updated: 16 04 2025

VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration [V8] course is related to the skills that  apply to managing and configuring virtualized environments with a focus on virtual machine (VM) administration and system optimization. This course will build upon your existing VMware vSphere infrastructure knowledge with appropriate configurations and troubleshooting considerations for advanced administration and performance tuning, security changes, and high availability. 

Course learners will engage in hands-on opportunities to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot a VMware environment focusing on main components, including ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and virtual machines. The course should leave participants with an in-depth understanding of advanced storage and networking configurations, as well as automation, to facilitate improved efficiency and operation. 

This professional certification demonstrates your capabilities to operate in an enterprise-level environment to take control of crucial virtualization software components. Since many companies use VMs for application hosting and server needs, certified professionals are necessary across many fields to ensure proper IT projects, limited downtime, and maximum performance. 

The No.1 Corporate Training Company, SSDN Technologies offers live online training with a conceptual and practical training methodology. The VMware vCenter Server & vSphere training is intended for those who want to advance their careers in working with VMware technologies and is suited for IT Administrators, System Engineers, and Cloud Professionals. Administering vSphere will enhance your career options and help your organization achieve superior results with virtualized infrastructure. 

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Learning Options for You

  • Live Training (Duration : 32 Hours)
  • Per Participant

Fee: On Request

Course Prerequisites

This course requires the following prerequisites:

  • Completion of VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] course
  • VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification
  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating

Learning Objectives

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Introduction to fictitious company: VMBeans

Creating and Configuring Management Clusters

  • Enable cluster features that help to improve resource allocation and availability of virtual machines
  • Use standard virtual switches to create networking in a cluster
  • Recognize when to use VMware vSphere® vMotion®
  • Recognize requirements for using iSCSI
  • Identify the purpose of iSCSI multipathing
  • Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet requirements
  • Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP support
  • Recognize ESXi user account best practices
  • Configure ESXi host settings
  • Use host profiles appropriately

Creating and Configuring Productions Clusters

  • Use Cluster Quickstart to create a vSAN enabled cluster
  • Configure advanced vSphere HA settings
  • Recognize the benefits of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
  • Configure the vCenter Server identity provider
  • Assign specific permissions and roles to ADFS users
  • Recognize how Enhanced vMotion Compatibility benefits VM mobility
  • Perform a Cross vCenter Server Migration
  • Use content libraries to share virtual machine templates between sites

Troubleshooting vSphere and Backing Up Configurations

  • Troubleshoot ESXi connectivity issues
  • Troubleshoot iSCSI storage issues
  • Troubleshoot vSphere cluster resources
  • Troubleshoot VMware PowerCLI™ issues
  • Back up vCenter Server

Lifecycle Management

  • Troubleshoot upgrade-blocking issues
  • Increase logging levels on vCenter Server
  • Configure a VMware Tools™ shared repository
  • Upgrade vCenter Server
  • Upgrade ESXi
  • Upgrade VMware Tools
  • Upgrade Virtual Machine Compatibility
  • Work with VM placement rules

vSphere Security

  • Manage advanced virtual machine configurations
  • Configure a key management server
  • Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere VM encryption
  • Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion
  • Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options
  • Apply security hardening guidelines to ESXi hosts
  • Replace vCenter Server certificates with trusted CA-signed certificates
  • Deploy a new vCenter Server instance
  • Reconfigure the primary network identifier for vCenter Server

Target Audience

Target Audience

  • System administrators
  • System engineer

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