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VMWare Data Center Virtualization
OVERVIEW

This MCIT course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere®, which includes VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server®. This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.  This course is the foundation for most of the other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center

  • 03 September 2025
  • 45 hours
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COURSE OUTLINE

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This module provides an introductions and course logistics and Course objectives.

This module provides an idea about the basic virtualization concepts, vSphere fits into the software-defined  data center and the cloud infrastructure, vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, and storage, user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts, ESXi host architecture, Navigate the Direct Console User Interface(DCUI) to configure an ESXi host, ESXi host user account best practices, Install an ESXi host, using VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings, proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline.

This module helps you to create and provision a virtual machine, importance of VMware Tool, Install VMware Tools, Identify the files that make up a VM, the components of a VM, virtual devices supported by a VM, benefits and use cases for containers and Identify the parts of a container system.

This module presenst the vCenter Server architecture, ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter  Server, deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance, use vSphere Client to manage the vCenter Server  inventory, add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server, using roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory, Back up vCenter Server Appliance , Monitor vCenter Server tasks, events, and appliance health and Use VMware vCenter Server High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance.

This module helpys you to create and manage standard switches, virtual switch connection types, Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies and compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches.

This module helps to identify storage protocols and storage device types, ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores, multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage and components of a VMware vSAN configuration.

This module presnts the use of templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines, modify and manage virtual machines, create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library, using the customization specification files to customize a new virtual machine, Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations, Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature, Create and manage virtual machine snapshots, features and functions of VMware vSphere Replication and benefits of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection.

This module presnst the CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized  environment, overcommitment of a resource means, methods for optimizing CPU and memory  usage, using various tools to monitor resource use and create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events.

This module describes the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster, create a vSphere DRS cluster, Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration, options for making a vSphere environment highly available, vSphere HA architecture, Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster, features and functions of VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance and function of the vSphere Cluster Service.

This module helps yoy to recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner, VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager works, update ESXi hosts using baselines, Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image, upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware and VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manage and VMware vSAN integration.

SKILLS ACQUIRED

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

Those seeking to validate a professional ability to work with VMWare Administration that prepares you for corporate world and help you significantly with vSphere certifications (VCA, VCP, VCAP etc.) If you want to start your career in VMWare and have little or no knowledge of it .
Get an understanding of testing & troubleshooting everday VMwear & V sphere issues.
For those who wish to get a basic understanding of VMWare vSphere administration, configuration & installation.
Professionals working in the field of Networking and would like to make inroads into the VMware domain and did not know where to begin.

Eligibility and Requirements

Learners need to possess an undergraduate degree or a high school diploma. No need of any professional experience is required as this is a basic course.

 

Prerequisite

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021 (VCP-DCV 2021) certification.

 

Upon completing this cerification course you will:

  • Receive an industry-recognized certificate from MCIT.
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  • Be prepared for the official VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021 (VCP-DCV 2021) certification.

INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT

CALENDAR

03 September 2025

Register before 02 September 2025

09 January 2026

Register before 08 January 2026

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Montreal College offers a new session every four months, i.e., in October (fall session), February (winter session) and June (summer session). Students are encouraged to register at least 2 to 16 weeks in advance. Please note that many programs fill up before the registration deadline.