VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8] Bootcamp

VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8] Bootcamp Overview

This vSphere Operate, Scale and Secure bootcamp is an accelerated, instructor-led delivery of the official VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8.0] course (VSOSS80). It is the advanced half of the vSphere curriculum: not how to stand up a cluster, but how to run one at enterprise scale without it becoming fragile. Over five days with hands-on labs you build resilience into the platform through vSphere Replication, resource pools and scalable shares, distributed switches, storage policy-based management and vCenter High Availability, then lock it down with certificate management, identity federation, VM encryption and vSphere Trust Authority.

Included in the camp is the exam voucher for VMware vSphere 8.x Professional (2V0-21.23), the exam behind the VMware Certified Professional, Data Center Virtualization certification. Broadcom lists this course among the recommended courses for that exam. The exam runs 135 minutes, 70 single and multiple choice questions, proctored, with a scaled passing score of 300.

Who This vSphere Operate, Scale and Secure Course Is For

VMware writes this course for experienced system administrators, system engineers and system integrators. In practice that means the people who already own a running vSphere estate and are now accountable for what happens to it: the virtualization administrators asked to prove the environment survives a host or site failure, the infrastructure engineers scaling from a handful of hosts to a datacenter and hitting the limits of standard switches and flat storage, the platform teams handed a security or compliance audit covering vCenter, ESXi and VM encryption, and the consultants and integrators who have to make all of that work in someone else's estate. It suits people comfortable in the vSphere Client and on the command line who want the advanced operational and security half of the platform.

What You'll Learn in This VSOSS80 Training

The camp follows the official VMware course outline. VMware publishes module objectives rather than percentage weightings for this course, so the modules below are the syllabus itself:

• Virtual Machine Operations: the role of a VMware Tools repository and how to configure one, the backup and restore solution for virtual machines, the components of the vSphere Replication architecture, deploying and configuring vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery instances, and recovering replicated VMs.
• vSphere Cluster Operations: creating and managing resource pools in a cluster to control VM resource usage, how scalable shares work, the function of vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS), and recognising the operations that can disrupt the healthy functioning of vCLS VMs.
• Network Operations: configuring and managing vSphere distributed switches, how vSphere Network I/O Control enhances performance, distributed switch features including port mirroring and NetFlow, and the use cases and benefits of vSphere Distributed Services Engine.
• Storage Operations: vSphere support for NVMe and iSER technologies, the architecture and requirements of a vSAN configuration, storage policy-based management, the components of the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture, and configuring Storage I/O Control.
• vCenter and ESXi Operations: creating a vCenter backup schedule, why vCenter High Availability matters and how it works, using host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance, the benefits of configuration profiles, and managing certificates from both the vSphere Client and the command line.
• vSphere Monitoring: the key factors affecting virtual machine performance, the factors that influence vCenter performance, using vCenter tools to monitor resource use, creating custom alarms, and the capabilities of VMware Skyline and Skyline Advisor Pro.
• vSphere Security and Access Control: strategies for securing vCenter, ESXi hosts and virtual machines, vSphere support for security standards and protocols, and identity federation, its use cases, and configuring it so vCenter uses an external identity provider.
• vSphere Trusted Environments and VM Encryption: configuring ESXi host access and authentication, virtual machine security features, the components of a VM encryption architecture, creating, managing and migrating encrypted VMs, VM encryption events and alarms, and the benefits and use cases of vSphere Trust Authority.

Why Choose This vSphere Operate, Scale and Secure Camp

Most vSphere training stops once the cluster boots. This is the course that covers what the job actually turns into: replication and recovery, scaling networking and storage past the defaults, keeping vCenter itself highly available, and passing the security review. It is delivered live by a certified instructor using the official VMware course and official VMware labs, not third-party material, and the exam voucher is in the price.

• 5-day accelerated format, delivering the full official VMware course in one week.
• 95% first-attempt pass rate, with a retake voucher if you need it.
• Official VMware courseware (VSOSS80) and official VMware labs, taught by a certified instructor.
• VMware test voucher included, with no hidden exam fees.
• Recommended preparation for 2V0-21.23, the exam behind VMware Certified Professional, Data Center Virtualization.
• Vetted practice exam resources alongside the official hands-on labs.
• Live online delivery, so you certify without travelling.
• Classes run as scheduled, with no cancellations, so you can book time off with confidence.