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VMware vSphere Training Program

Gain practical, enterprise-ready virtualization skills through real-world labs, guided exercises, and a capstone project using VMware vSphere 8.

Course Curriculum

Course Curriculum

What You will Learn in this course?

Virtualization Fundamentals

Topics

  • Virtualization concepts
  • VMware ecosystem overview

Hands-On Labs

  • Create and configure virtual machines
  • Install guest operating systems

Topics

  • ESXi, vCenter & VMware Tools
  • Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisors
  • Datastores, clusters & resource pools

Hands-On Labs

  • Install ESXi host
  • Connect ESXi to vCenter
  • Perform basic VM management

Topics

  • VM lifecycle management
  • Snapshots, cloning & templates
  • CPU, memory & storage allocation

Hands-On Labs

  • Create and revert snapshots
  • Clone and deploy VMs
  • Modify VM resources

Topics

  • Virtual networking concepts
  • Virtual switches & port groups
  • Shared storage basics

Hands-On Labs

  • Configure VM networking
  • Create virtual switches
  • Connect VMs to datastores
  • Test VM connectivity

Topics

  • VMware Tools
  • User management & performance monitoring
  • Backup & recovery basics

Hands-On Labs

  • Install VMware Tools
  • Monitor VM performance
  • Backup & restore virtual machines
  • Assign roles and permissions

Topics

  • vSphere overview (HA, DRS, VMotion)
  • Security & performance best practices

Hands-On Labs

  • Perform live VM migration (VMotion)
  • Configure a small ESXi cluster
  • Deploy a complete VM environment

Advanced vSphere 8 Coverage

Core Components:

  • ESXi 8 installation & host management
  • vCenter Server 8 & VCSA deployment

Networking:

  • Standard & Distributed Switches (vSS / vDS)
  • VMkernel interfaces
  • NIC teaming & load balancing

Storage:

  • VMFS, NFS & iSCSI datastores
  • Datastore management

Availability & Performance:

  • vMotion & Storage vMotion
  • HA, DRS & Fault Tolerance

Lifecycle Management:

  • vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
  • Patch & upgrade management

Career Opportunities:

  • VMware Administrator
  • Virtualization Engineer
  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
  • System / Server Administrator
  • Data Center Operations Engineer
  • IT Infrastructure Specialist
  • Virtualization Support Engineer
  • Systems Support Engineer
  • Junior DevOps Engineer (with virtualization focus)
  • Technical Support / IT Engineer

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