VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

Last Updated: 16 04 2025

The VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] course is designed for IT professionals Seeking to gain a deep understanding of how to administer a VMware vSphere 8 environment. This includes learning what's necessary for the vSphere infrastructure, from VMware ESXi™ to VMware vCenter Server, so anyone intending to manage the virtualization environment would greatly benefit from this course. 

Learners Will possess the expertise to install, configure, and manage vSphere to operate a software-defined data centre on their own. The course includes creating virtual machines, configuring networking and storage, managing the vSphere lifecycle, resource allocation, and high availability. 

With a Best Corporate Training Company, SSDN Technologies, you get engaging experience that allows the learners to implement and use skills learned in the course setting to real-world applications. Upon course completion, Learners will be ready to manage vSphere infrastructure and enhance system performance and reliability. Necessary training for IT administrators and virtualization professionals looking to expand their horizons within the cloud and data centre technology realm. 

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Learning Options for You

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

Fee: On Request

09:00 - 17:00 (IST)

(8 Hours/Day)

09:00 - 17:00 (IST)

(8 Hours/Day)

09:00 - 17:00 (IST)

( Hours/Day)

09:00 - 17:00 (IST)

( Hours/Day)

09:00 - 17:00 (IST)

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Course Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Learning Objectives

vSphere and Virtualization Overview

  • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
  • Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
  • Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

Installing and Configuring ESXi

  • Install an ESXi host
  • Recognize ESXi user account best practices
  • Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

Deploying and configuring vCenter

  • Recognize ESXi hosts' communication with vCenter
  • Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
  • Configure vCenter settings
  • Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
  • Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
  • Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
  • View vCenter logs and events

Configuring vSphere Networking

  • Configure and view standard switch configurations
  • Configure and view distributed switch configurations
  • Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
  • Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

Configuring vSphere Storage

  • Recognize vSphere storage technologies
  • Identify types of vSphere datastores
  • Describe Fiber Channel components and addressing
  • Describe iSCSI components and addressing
  • Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
  • Create and manage VMFS datastores
  • Configure and manage NFS datastores

Deploying Virtual Machines

  • Create and provision VMs
  • Explain the importance of VMware Tools
  • Identify the files that make up a VM
  • Recognize the components of a VM
  • Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
  • Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
  • Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
  • Clone VMs
  • Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
  • Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
  • Deploy VMs from content libraries
  • Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

Managing Virtual Machines

  • Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
  • Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
  • Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
  • Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Take a snapshot of a VM
  • Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
  • Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
  • Describe how VMs compete for resources
  • Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters

  • Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
  • View information about a vSphere cluster
  • Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
  • Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
  • Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
  • Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
  • Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
  • Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
  • Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
  • Configure a vSphere HA cluster
  • Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

Managing the vSphere Lifecycle

  • Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
  • Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
  • Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
  • Recognize features of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager
  • Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
  • Describe how to update hosts using baselines
  • Describe ESXi images
  • Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
  • Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
  • Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware tools and VM hardware
     

Target Audience

Target Audience

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

 

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