VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V8] (VSFT8)

 

Course Overview

This five-day, extended hour course takes you from introductory to advanced VMware vSphere® 8 management skills. Building on the installation and configuration content from our best-selling course, you will also develop advanced skills needed to manage and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you will install, configure, and manage vSphere 7. You will explore the features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure and discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8.

Product Alignment

  • VMware ESXi 8.0
  • VMware vCenter 8.0

Who should attend

  • System administrators
  • System engineers

Certifications

This course is part of the following Certifications:

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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
  • Configure vCenter High Availability
  • Create and configure 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
  • Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
  • Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
  • Manage virtual machine resource use
  • Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
  • Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
  • Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
  • Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client

Course Content

  • Course Introduction
  • vSphere and Virtualization Overview
  • vCenter Management
  • Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
  • Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
  • Deploying Virtual Machines
  • Managing Virtual Machines
  • vSphere Cluster Management
  • Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
  • Network Operations
  • Storage Operations
  • ESXi Operations
  • vSphere Monitoring

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • 4,390.— €
  • VMware PSO Credits: 65
    excl. tax

Courseware language: English

Dates and Booking
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Classroom Training

Duration
5 days

Price
  • Germany: 4,390.— €
  • Switzerland: CHF 5,450.—
  • VMware PSO Credits: 65
    excl. tax
incl. catering

Courseware language: English

Dates and Booking
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Schedule

Guaranteed date:   The course is guaranteed to run regardless of the number of participants. This excludes unforeseeable events (e.g. accident, illness of the trainer) which make it impossible to carry out the course.
Instructor-led Online Training:   Course conducted online in a virtual classroom.
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

English

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)   ±1 hour

Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Training
Classroom option: London, City, United Kingdom Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Training
Classroom option: London, City, United Kingdom Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
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Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
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Online Training
Classroom option: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)
Guaranteed date:   The course is guaranteed to run regardless of the number of participants. This excludes unforeseeable events (e.g. accident, illness of the trainer) which make it impossible to carry out the course.
FLEX Classroom Training (hybrid course):   Course participation either on-site in the classroom or online from the workplace or from home.

Germany

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Switzerland

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Austria

Vienna (iTLS) This is a FLEX course in German language. Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

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