VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure Training in Denmark

This 5-day advanced training is designed to provide participants with the expertise to configure, secure, and optimize VMware vSphere® 8 environments for high availability and scalability.

Through a blend of lectures and hands-on labs, you will explore advanced vSphere features, understand their impact, and learn how to apply them in large enterprise environments.

• Completed VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] or equivalent knowledge

• Hands-on experience with ESXi and vCenter

• Basic command-line skills

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository

• Deploy vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs

• Create and manage resource pools with scalable shares

• Configure advanced networking with Distributed Switches, NIOC, Port Mirroring, and NetFlow

• Manage storage with vSAN, Virtual Volumes, and Storage I/O Control

• Configure and manage vCenter High Availability (HA)

• Use Host Profiles and Configuration Profiles for ESXi host compliance

• Manage vSphere certificates via Client and CLI

• Monitor performance with Skyline and Advisor Pro

• Secure vSphere components with Identity Federation and Trust Authority

• Encrypt, manage, and migrate secure VMs

1. Course Introduction

• Objectives and logistics

2. Virtual Machine Operations

• VMware Tools Repository

• Backup & Restore solutions

• vSphere Replication & Site Recovery

3. Cluster Operations

• Resource Pools

• Scalable Shares

• vCLS operations

4. Network Operations

• Distributed Switches

• Network I/O Control

• Port Mirroring & NetFlow

• Distributed Services Engine

5. Storage Operations

• vSAN architecture

• Storage policies

• Virtual Volumes

• Storage I/O Control

6. vCenter and ESXi Operations

• Backup scheduling

• vCenter HA

• Host Profiles & Compliance

• Certificate management

7. Monitoring

• Performance factors for VMs & vCenter

• Custom alarms

• VMware Skyline & Advisor Pro

8. Security and Access Control

• Securing vCenter, ESXi, and VMs

• Security protocols and standards

• Identity Federation & external identity providers

9. Trusted Environments and VM Encryption

• ESXi authentication

• VM encryption architecture

• Managing encrypted VMs

• Trust Authority