VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.0] (VSICM80)
The VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.0] is the foundational starting point to learn how to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 8. This course includes the official courseware, labs, vetted practice exams and exam voucher to achieve the VCP-DCU certification.
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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.0] (VSICM80)
Delivery Options
Remote Classroom Live
Duration
5 days
Exams
2V0-21.23
Certifications
VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
Vouchers
Test & One Retake Voucher Per Exam (if needed)
What's Included
Everything You Need To Succeed
- VMware Official Course (VSICM80)
- VMware Test Voucher
- 1 Retake Voucher (if needed)
- VMware Official Labs
- Instructor Led Live Training
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Our training model blends knowledge and certification prep into one solution. You can interact face-to-face with vendor-certified trainers at our training facilities or attend the same instructor-led live camp online.
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Jul282025Delivery Format:REMOTE CLASSROOM LIVEDate:07.28.2025 - 08.01.2025Location:ONLINE ONLYPrice Includes:Instructor Led Class, Official Courseware, Labs and Exams$4,2505 days
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Aug112025Delivery Format:REMOTE CLASSROOM LIVEDate:08.11.2025 - 08.15.2025Location:ONLINE ONLYPrice Includes:Instructor Led Class, Official Courseware, Labs and Exams$4,2505 days
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Course Description
The VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 8.0 Training & Certification 5 Day Boot Camp builds foundational skills for installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter 8.
Through a mix of lecture and hands-on labs, you configure and optimize the VMware vSphere 8 features that build a foundation for a truly scalable infrastructure.
This VMWare Official Training Uses This Official Courseware & Exam Included
VSICM80 - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.0]
Included in this training is the VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam (2V0-21.23) to achieve the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) official certification.
Skills Gained
Install and configure ESXi hosts
Deploy and configure vCenter
Use the vSphere Client to create the vCenter inventory and assign roles to vCenter users
Create virtual networks using vSphere standard switches and distributed switches
Create and configure datastores using storage technologies supported by vSphere
Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Create content libraries for managing templates and deploying virtual machines
Manage virtual machine resource allocation
Migrate virtual machines with vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion
Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter, ESXi hosts, and virtual machines up to date
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Topics Covered in this Official Boot Camp
vSphere and Virtualization Overview
vSphere and Virtualization Overview
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure
- Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere
- Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs
Installing and Configuring ESXi
Installing and Configuring ESXi
- Install an ESXi host
- Recognize ESXi user account best practices
- Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client
Deploying and Configuring vCenter
Deploying and Configuring vCenter
- Recognize ESXi hosts communication with vCenter
- Deploy vCenter Server Appliance
- Configure vCenter settings
- Use the vSphere Client to add and manage license keys
- Create and organize vCenter inventory objects
- Recognize the rules for applying vCenter permissions
- View vCenter logs and events
Configuring vSphere Networking
Configuring vSphere Networking
- Configure and view standard switch configurations
- Configure and view distributed switch configurations
- Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches
- Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches
Configuring vSphere Storage
Configuring vSphere Storage
- Recognize vSphere storage technologies
- Identify types of vSphere datastores
- Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing
- Describe iSCSI components and addressing
- Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi
- Create and manage VMFS datastores
- Configure and manage NFS datastores
Deploying Virtual Machines
Deploying Virtual Machines
- Create and provision VMs
- Explain the importance of VMware Tools
- Identify the files that make up a VM
- Recognize the components of a VM
- Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options
- Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources
- Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them
- Clone VMs
- Create customization specifications for guest operating systems
- Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries
- Deploy VMs from content libraries
- Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries
Managing Virtual Machines
Managing Virtual Machines
- Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances
- Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion
- Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations
- Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion
- Take a snapshot of a VM
- Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots
- Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment
- Describe how VMs compete for resources
- Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
Deploying and Configuring vSphere Clusters
- Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA
- View information about a vSphere cluster
- Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster
- Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings
- Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster
- Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures
- Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster
- Recognize vSphere HA design considerations
- Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings
- Configure a vSphere HA cluster
- Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance
Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
- Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster
- Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner
- Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports
- Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images
- Describe how to update hosts using baselines
- Describe ESXi images
- Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts
- Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
- Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations
- Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware
Lab Outline
Lab Outline
- Lab 1: Accessing the Lab Environment
- Lab 2: Configuring an ESXi Host
- Lab 3: Adding vSphere Licenses
- Lab 4: Creating and Managing the vCenter Inventory
- Lab 5: Adding an Identity Source
- Lab 6: Users Groups and Permissions
- Lab 7: Creating Standard Switches
- Lab 8: Configuring vSphere Distributed Switches
- Lab 9: Accessing iSCSI Storage
- Lab 10: Managing VMFS Datastores
- Lab 11: Accessing NFS Storage
- Lab 12: Creating and Removing a Virtual Machine
- Lab 13: Installing VMware Tools
- Lab 14: Adding Virtual Hardware
- Lab 15: Modifying Virtual Machines
- Lab 16: Creating Templates and Deploying VMs
- Lab 17: Using Local Content Libraries
- Lab 18: Using Subscribed Content Libraries
- Lab 19: Versioning VM Templates in Content Libraries
- Lab 20: vSphere vMotion Migrations
- Lab 21: vSphere Storage vMotion Migrations
- Lab 22: Working with Snapshots
- Lab 23: Controlling VM Resources
- Lab 24: Implementing vSphere DRS Clusters
- Lab 25: Configuring vSphere HA
- Lab 26: Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
What's Included
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Accelerated Live Training by Certified Trainers
Exam voucher
One Retake Voucher Per exam, if Needed
Re-sit Your Class at no Additional Charge up to 6 Months
Vetted and Monthly Updated Practice Exam Resources
90-day Extended Access to Boot Camps Components
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After the Boot Camp
Continue to access your student lab environment for 90 days after your camp is over. In the event you need to defer your exams or would like to re-sit the training – you have up to 6 months after the camp is complete.
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