Wiidev Academy

VMware Virtualization

Deploy, manage and troubleshoot your infrastructure with VMware vSphere and vCenter.

Level: intermediateDuration: one_weekFormat: hybridNext session: Jul 14, 20265 Spots left
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Full overview

5-day intensive training on VMware vSphere. You learn to design, deploy and operate a complete vSphere cluster: ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, vMotion and high availability. Each learner gets a personal lab with several ESXi hosts and a dedicated vCenter.

VMware vSphere remains the most deployed enterprise virtualization solution in professional data centers. This 5-day intensive training gives you the operational skills to manage a vSphere cluster in production, from ESXi hypervisor installation to advanced high-availability configuration.

The curriculum covers the complete VMware stack architecture: ESXi installation and configuration on bare-metal servers, vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) deployment as the central management point, cluster creation and management with DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) for automatic load balancing, vSAN setup for distributed storage without a dedicated SAN array, and live migration configuration with vMotion and Storage vMotion.

An entire day is dedicated to disaster recovery: you configure high availability (HA) with heartbeat, Fault Tolerance for critical VMs, and simulate a host failure to validate automatic failover. The final module covers advanced troubleshooting: vCenter log analysis, performance diagnostics with esxtop, and split-brain incident resolution in the cluster.

What you'll learn

  • Install and configure ESXi on bare-metal or VMs
  • Deploy and administer vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
  • Build vSphere clusters, configure HA, DRS and Fault Tolerance
  • Set up vSAN for distributed storage
  • Perform live migrations with vMotion and Storage vMotion
  • Diagnose and resolve common production incidents

Prerequisites

  • Comfortable with a server OS (Linux or Windows Server)
  • Basic networking knowledge (TCP/IP, VLAN, routing)
  • Some prior system administration experience is recommended

Curriculum

  1. 01Day 1 — vSphere architecture, ESXi and VCSA installation
  2. 02Day 2 — Virtual networking (vSwitch, distributed switches, VLAN)
  3. 03Day 3 — Storage: iSCSI, NFS, vSAN, datastores
  4. 04Day 4 — High availability: HA clusters, DRS, Fault Tolerance
  5. 05Day 5 — Monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting + case study

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