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Publication date : 06/17/2024

Course : VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration V8 (VSAA8)

Official course, exam preparation 2V0-21.23

Practical course - 5d - 35h00 - Ref. VS1
Price : 5050 € E.T.

VMware vSphere: Advanced Administration V8 (VSAA8)

Official course, exam preparation 2V0-21.23



With this training, you'll be equipped with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere 8 administration tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through laboratory activities, participants are placed in real-life situations from a fictitious company, VMBeans. These situations expose students to real-world scenarios faced by companies building and evolving their virtual infrastructure.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. VS1
  5d - 35h00
5050 € E.T.




With this training, you'll be equipped with a range of skills, from performing routine VMware vSphere 8 administration tasks to complex vSphere operations and configurations. Through laboratory activities, participants are placed in real-life situations from a fictitious company, VMBeans. These situations expose students to real-world scenarios faced by companies building and evolving their virtual infrastructure.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Configuring VMware vCenter® and VMware ESXi
Configuring and managing a vSphere cluster solution for vSphere HA, vSphere DRS and vSAN
Configuring vSphere storage and networking
Perform lifecycle operations on vSphere components
Solve vSphere infrastructure and connectivity problems
Backing up vCenter configurations
Implement vSphere infrastructure security solutions

Intended audience
System administrators and system engineers.

Prerequisites
Completion of one of the following training courses: MWA or EMW. Working knowledge of VMware vSAN. Experience of system administration on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Certification
Successful completion of the 2V0-21.23 exam leads to VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2024 (VCAP-DCV Deploy 2024) certification.
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Practical details
Teaching methods
Training in French. Official course material in digital format and in English. Good understanding of written English.

Course schedule

1
Creating and configuring management clusters

  • Create a vSphere cluster for management workloads.
  • Enable vSphere cluster features to improve VM resources and availability.
  • Use standard virtual switches to create a cluster network.
  • Select the appropriate vSphere storage types to meet your requirements.
  • Configure iSCSI storage.
  • Configure VMFS and NFS databases.
  • Recognize when to configure ESXi NTP and PTP support.
  • Recognize ESXi user account best practices.
  • Configure ESXi host parameters.
  • Use vSphere configuration profiles to maintain consistent ESXi host configurations.

2
Creating and configuring production clusters

  • Use the cluster quick start guide to create a vSAN-enabled cluster.
  • Configure advanced vSphere HA settings.
  • Configurer le fournisseur d’identité vCenter.
  • Assign specific roles and authorizations to ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) users.
  • Configure enhanced vMotion compatibility on a cluster and a virtual machine.
  • Migrate between vCenter Servers.
  • Use content libraries to share virtual machine models between sites.
  • Manage VM and ESXi host resources using resource pools, shares and vSphere DRS rules.

3
vSphere troubleshooting and configuration backup

  • Solve ESXi connectivity problems.
  • Solve ESXi storage problems.
  • Solve vSphere cluster problems.
  • Solve PowerCLI-related problems.
  • Generate vCenter and ESXi log bundles.
  • Save vCenter.
  • Create a vCenter profile to standardize configurations in the environment.

4
Lifecycle management

  • Solve upgrade blocking problems.
  • Increase logging levels on vCenter.
  • Set up a VMware Tools shared repository.
  • vCenter upgrade.
  • ESXi upgrade.
  • Upgrade VMware tools.
  • Upgrade hardware compatibility of virtual machines.

5
vSphere Security

  • Configure a key management server.
  • Encrypt virtual machines using vSphere virtual machine encryption.
  • Secure VMs in transit with encrypted vSphere vMotion.
  • Identify and implement different ESXi CPU scheduler options.
  • Apply security enhancement instructions to ESXi hosts.
  • Replace vCenter certificates with trusted certificates signed by a certification authority.
  • Reconfigure the primary network identifier of a vCenter instance.


Customer reviews
5 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
ALEXANDRE D.
08/12/25
5 / 5

Really top-notch, very educational and great trainer.
OMER E.
30/06/25
5 / 5

The content was very interesting and the trainer was very educational and attentive during the course.
FABRICE B.
30/06/25
5 / 5

Excellent advanced training: the labs are very well done so you can manage an installation from A to Z, just about.



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