Professional VMware vSphere 7.x Training and Certification

Course Overview

The Professional VMware vSphere 7.x training program provides essential knowledge and hands-on skills for configuring, managing, and administering VMware vSphere environments. This includes deep exposure to ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, virtual machines, VMware vSAN, and vSphere HA/DRS clusters.

Designed for system administrators, IT professionals, and virtualization engineers, this course prepares learners to efficiently manage resources, increase availability, and optimize infrastructure performance using VMware’s industry-leading data center virtualization solution.

This course also helps prepare candidates for the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) 2023/2024 certification.

Why Choose This Course

  • Gain complete understanding of the core components of VMware vSphere

  • Learn to deploy and manage virtual machines, hosts, clusters, and storage

  • Master high availability, fault tolerance, and distributed resource scheduling

  • Prepare for VMware VCP-DCV certification, recognized across global enterprises

  • Learn best practices for secure, scalable virtualization deployments

Who Should Enroll

  • System administrators and data center engineers

  • IT professionals managing or planning vSphere-based infrastructures

  • Technical consultants deploying VMware environments for clients

  • Candidates pursuing the VCP-DCV certification path

  • Organizations transitioning to server consolidation and virtual infrastructure

Skills You Will Gain

  • Installing and configuring VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

  • Creating and managing virtual machines, templates, and snapshots

  • Configuring vSphere clusters, including HA, DRS, and vMotion

  • Managing networking and storage with vSphere Standard/Distributed Switches

  • Securing and monitoring vSphere environments using role-based access and logs

  • Understanding lifecycle management, host profiles, and VMware Tools upgrades

Career Opportunities

  • VMware vSphere Administrator

  • Virtualization Engineer

  • Data Center Operations Specialist

  • Infrastructure Support Engineer

  • Cloud Platform Administrator

Applicable across all enterprise sectors—including banking, telecom, IT services, healthcare, government, and cloud hosting providers—where efficient and resilient virtualization is critical.

Virtualize with Confidence – Learn from the Experts

VMware vSphere is the foundation of modern data center operations. This course provides the real-world skills needed to deploy, manage, and optimize scalable virtual infrastructures.

Enroll in VMware vSphere 7.x Training at Linux Training Center, Coimbatore

Professional VMware vSphere 7.x Syllabus

Modules

Architectures and Technologies

  • Identify the pre-requisites and components for a vSphere implementation
  • Describe vCenter Server topology
  • Identify and differentiate storage access protocols for vSphere (NFS, iSCSI, SAN, etc.)
  • Describe storage datastore types for vSphere
  • Explain the importance of advanced storage configuration (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA), vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI), etc.)
  • Describe storage policies
  • Describe basic storage concepts in K8s, vSAN and vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
  • Differentiate between vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) and vSphere Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
  • Describe instant clone architecture and use cases
  • Describe ESXi cluster concepts
  • Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • Describe vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
  • Describe how Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) scores virtual machines
  • Describe vSphere High Availability
  • Describe datastore clusters
  • Identify vSphere distributed switch and vSphere standard switch capabilities
  • Describe VMkernel networking
  • Manage networking on multiple hosts with vSphere distributed switch
  • Describe networking policies
  • Manage Network I/O Control (NIOC) on a vSphere distributed switch
  • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager concepts (baselines, cluster images, etc.)
  • Describe the basics of vSAN as primary storage
  • Identify basic vSAN requirements(networking, disk count + type)
  • Describe the vSphere Trust Authority architecture
  • Explain Software Guard Extensions (SGX)

    • VMware Products and Solutions

  • Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)
  • Identify use cases for vCloud Foundation
  • Identify migration options
  • Identify DR use cases
  • Describe vSphere integration with VMware Skyline

    • Planning and Designing

    Installing, Configuring, and Setup

  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
  • Create and configure VMware High Availability and advanced options (Admission Control, Proactive High Availability, etc.)
  • Deploy and configure vCenter Server High Availability
  • Set up content library
  • Configure vCenter Server file-based backup
  • Analyze basic log output from vSphere products
  • Configure vSphere Trust Authority
  • Configure vSphere certificates
  • Describe Enterprise PKIs role for SSL certificates
  • Configure vSphere Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)
  • Securely Boot ESXi hosts
  • Configure different network stacks
  • Configure Host Profiles
  • Identify boot options
  • Configure Quick Boot

    • Performance-tuning, Optimization, Upgrades

  • Monitor resources of vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere environment
  • Identify and use tools for performance monitoring
  • Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC)
  • Configure Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
  • Explain the performance impact of maintaining virtual machine snapshots
  • Plan for upgrading various vSphere components

    • Troubleshooting and Repairing

    Administrative and Operational Tasks

    Create Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affinity and anti-affinity rules for common use cases
  • Configure and perform different types of migrations
  • Configure role-based user management
  • Configure and manage the options for securing a vSphere environment (certificates, virtual machine encryption, virtual Trusted Platform Module, lock-down mode, virtualization-based security, etc.)
  • Configure and manage host profiles
  • Utilize baselines to perform updates and upgrades
  • Utilize vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Describe Firmware upgrades for ESXi
  • Describe ESXi updates
  • Describe component and driver updates for ESXi
  • Describe hardware compatibility check
  • Describe ESXi cluster image export functionality
  • Configure alarms

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