VMWare IT Academy Class Descriptions

VMware Certified Professional 8 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

The VMware Certified Professional 8 curriculum promotes this industry-recognized certification and validates that students know how to administer and troubleshoot vSphere V8 infrastructures. The curriculum consists of two courses. These include:

• VMWARE VSPHERE: INSTALL, CONFIGURE and MANAGE (ICM) 8
• VMWARE VSPHERE: OPERATE, SCALE and SECURE (OSS) 8

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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure and Manage 8

Learn fundamentals of installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 8, which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server™ 8.

With the VMware vSphere: ICM 8 curriculum, students will be able to:

• 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 and configure 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 a content library for deploying virtual machines
• Manage virtual machine resource use
• Configure ESXi hosts to support vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create and configure a vSphere cluster that is enabled with vSphere High Availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Manage the life cycle of vSphere to keep vCenter and ESXi hosts up to date

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VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure 8

Learn advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure

With the VMware vSphere: OSS 8 curriculum, students will be able to:

• Configure and manage a VMware Tools Repository
• Configure vSphere Replication and recover replicated VMs
• Manage VM resource usage with resource pools
• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Configure vCenter High Availability
• Use host profiles to manage VMware ESXi host compliance
• Use the vSphere Client and the command line to manage certificates
• Monitor the vCenter, ESXi, and VMs performance in the vSphere Client
• Secure vCenter, ESXi, and VMs in your vSphere environment
• Use Identity Federation to configure the vCenter to use external identity sources
• Use VMware vSphere Trust Authority to secure the infrastructure for encrypted VMs