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.

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® 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.

Who Can Benefit
▪ System administrators
▪ System engineers

Pre-requisites
▪ This course has the following prerequisites:
▪ System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems