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VMware vSphere:
Operate, Scale and Secure
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Course Overview
This five-day course teaches you advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual
infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features
that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the
greatest effect. Attend this course to deepen your understanding of vSphere and learn how its advanced features and
controls can benefit your organization.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Configure vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs
• Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Configure vCenter High Availability
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
• Use the vSphere Client to manage certificates
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere client
• Secure vCenter, ESXi, and VMs in your vSphere environment
• Use VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs
• Use Identity Federation to configure the vCenter to use external identity sources
Target Audience
• Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
Prerequisites
Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
• Attend VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter
Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended.
Certifications:
Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification:
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

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Course Delivery Options Product Alignment

• Classroom • VMware ESXi 8.0
• Live Online • VMware vCenter 8.0
• Private Training

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Course Modules • Recognize the importance of vCenter High

1 Course Introduction Availability
• Introductions and course logistics • Explain how vCenter High Availability works
• Course objectives • Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration
compliance
2 Virtual Machine Operations • Use the vSphere client to manage vSphere
• Recognize the role of a VMware Tools Repository certificates
• Configure a VMware Tools Repository
7 vSphere Monitoring
• Recognize the backup and restore solution for VMs
• Identify the components in the vSphere Replication • Monitor the key factors that can affect a virtual
architecture machine's performance
• Deploy and configure vSphere Replication • Describe the factors that influence vCenter
• Recover replicated VMs performance
• Use vCenter tools to monitor resource use
3 vSphere Cluster Operations • Create custom alarms in vCenter
• Create and manage resource pools in a cluster • Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware
• Describe how scalable shares work Skyline
• Describe the function of the vCLS • Recognize uses for Skyline Advisor Pro
• Recognize operations that might disrupt the healthy
8 vSphere Security and Access Control
functioning of vCLS VMs
• Recognize strategies for securing vSphere
4 Network Operations components, such as vCenter, ESXi hosts, and
• Configure and manage vSphere distributed virtual machines
switches • Describe vSphere support for security standards
• Describe how VMware vSphere Network I/O and protocols
Control enhances performance • Describe identity federation and recognize its use
• Explain distributed switch features such as port cases
mirroring and NetFlow • Configure identity federation to allow vCenter to
• Define vSphere Distributed Services Engine use an external identity provider
• Describe the use cases and benefits of vSphere
9 vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption
Distributed Services Engine
• Configure ESXi Host Access and Authentication
5 Storage Operations • Describe virtual machine security features
• Discuss vSphere support for NVMe and iSER • Describe the components of a VM encryption
technologies architecture
• Describe the architecture and requirements of • Create, manage, and migrate encrypted VMs
vSAN configuration • List VM encryption events and alarms
• Describe storage policy-based management • Describe the benefits and use cases of vSphere
• Recognize components in the vSphere Virtual Trust Authority
Volumes architecture • Configure vSphere Trust Authority
• Configure Storage I/O Control
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