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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This...
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$4,250 USD
GSA
$3,639.80
Duration
5 days
Course Code
EDU-VSICM7
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Jun 2, 2025 - Jun 6, 2025 (5 days)
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Jul 7, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025 (5 days)
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Aug 4, 2025 - Aug 8, 2025 (5 days)
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Overview
VMware certifications are a must-have for many IT professionals. VMware Certifications are a badge of honor, designed to validate your expertise in virtualization technologies. If you’re interested in becoming a certified VMware professional, this course is the perfect place to start and it meets the VMware requirements needed for the VMware certification process. This course is for the system administrator or system engineer who is relatively new to virtualization or has never played with a virtual machine. You’ll learn how virtual machines interact with the physical hardware that they’re running on and about the VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system; instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components.
You’ll be building and playing with virtual machines, so it will be helpful for you to already know how to install and manage Microsoft Windows or Linux Operating Systems. It will also be helpful if you have at least some networking and storage experience.
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 7, which includes VMware ESXi™ 7 and VMware vCenter Server® 7. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
- Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline • Install and configure ESXi hosts
- Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration
- Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere
- Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
- Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library
- Manage virtual machine resource use
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
- Create and manage a vSphere cluster that is enabled with VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
- Discuss solutions for managing the vSphere life cycle
- Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines
Who Can Benefit
- System administrators
- System engineers
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to vSphere and the Software-Defined Data Center
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined
- data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory,
- networks, and storage
- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the
- vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
- Describe the ESXi host architecture
- Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
- to configure an ESXi host
- Recognize ESXi host user account best practices
- Install an ESXi host
- Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host
- settings
Virtual Machines
- Create and provision a virtual machine
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
- Install VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make up a VM
- Recognize the components of a VM
- Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM
- Describe the benefits and use cases for containers
- Identify the parts of a container system
vCenter Server
- Describe the vCenter Server architecture
- Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter
- Server
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server
- inventory
- Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts
- to vCenter Server
- Use roles and permissions to enable users to access
- objects in the vCenter Server inventory
- Back up vCenter Server Appliance
- Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance
- health
- Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to
- protect a vCenter Server Appliance
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
- Create and manage standard switches
- Describe the virtual switch connection types
- Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping,
- and load-balancing policies
- Compare vSphere distributed switches and
- standard switches
Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Identify storage protocols and storage device types
- Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre
- Channel storage
- Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
- Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS,
- and Fibre Channel storage
- Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™
- configuration
Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual
- machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create a content library and deploy virtual machines
- from templates in the library
- Use customization specification files to customize a
- new virtual machine
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage
- vMotion migrations
- Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- feature
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Examine the features and functions of VMware
- vSphere® Replication™
- Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage
- APIs – Data Protection
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized
- environment
- Describe what overcommitment of a resource
- means
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory
- usage
- Use various tools to monitor resource use
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions
- or events
vSphere Cluster
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Create a vSphere DRS cluster
- Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration
- Describe options for making a vSphere environment
- highly available
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Examine the features and functions of VMware
- vSphere® Fault Tolerance
vSphere Lifecycle Management
- Recognize the importance of vCenter Server
- Update Planner
- Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle
- Manager™ works
- Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines
- Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image
- Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM
- hardware
Schedule
7 options available
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Jun 2, 2025 - Jun 6, 2025 (5 days)
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Jul 7, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 15, 2025 - Sep 19, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 29, 2025 - Oct 3, 2025 (5 days)
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Oct 27, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025 (5 days)
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Dec 8, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025 (5 days)
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