Master Enterprise Operations with vSphere 8.0

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators who already run vSphere and want the advanced operational features and controls. It is the day-two operations class: scaling, securing, and monitoring an environment that is already built.

Configuring and managing a VMware Tools Repository, vSphere Replication and recovering replicated VMs, managing resource usage with resource pools, configuring vSphere networking and storage for large environments, monitoring and performance tuning, and security and access control across the estate.

Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter, roughly what the Install, Configure, Manage course delivers. Command line experience is strongly recommended, because a good deal of the operational work happens there rather than in the client.

A mix of lecture and hands-on labs across virtual machine operations, vSphere cluster operations, network and storage operations, vCenter and ESXi operations, monitoring, and security and access control. The labs are the substance of the week.

This VMware course runs 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST across five days. If you host a private event the schedule can be adjusted to suit your team.

No exam is attached to this course and no exam voucher is included. The course sits on the VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) track as its operations-focused path rather than the introductory one, and the VCP-DCV exam is purchased and scheduled separately through Pearson VUE.

This course is about running the environment well: scaling it, securing it, tuning it. The Troubleshooting course is about diagnosing it when it breaks. If your environment is stable and growing, take this one. If you spend your week chasing faults, take Troubleshooting. Administrators who own production estates frequently end up taking both, usually in that order.

Yes, if you run vSphere 8, which most production estates still do. Migrations lag releases by years, and the operational discipline the course teaches carries forward regardless. If you have already moved to vSphere 9, our vSphere Foundation V9.0 course is the better match.

Yes. It pairs lecture with extensive labs in a real vSphere environment, and the advanced features covered here are ones you genuinely cannot learn from documentation alone. Expect to spend a large share of each day in the lab.

VMware administration currently averages around $107,000 to $113,000 in the United States, with most roles between roughly $80,000 and $130,000 and senior positions higher. Pay has held up well because the skill pool is shrinking faster than the installed base is, which is worth knowing if you are deciding whether to deepen these skills or move on.