Zero to mid-level engineer

vSphere
Administration

14 blocks covering ESXi 8.x and vCenter from first boot to enterprise HA, storage, automation and lifecycle management. Strictly job-focused — no cert alignment, no theory padding.

14 Blocks ESXi 8.x / vSphere 8 Enterprise-focused ESXi + vCenter 3 Live

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2 blocks

Virtual Machines & Provisioning

2 blocks

2 blocks

2 blocks

Availability & Recovery

2 blocks

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Blocks 11–14

Operations, Security & Automation

4 blocks

Blocks 1–2

Platform Foundations

ESXi & vCenter — The Hypervisor & Management Plane

Block 1 · 1 of 6 labs live

Virtualisation & ESXi Foundations

Block 2

vCenter & the vSphere Client

Blocks 3–4

Virtual Machines & Provisioning

Lifecycle, Templates, Clones & Content Libraries

Block 3

Virtual Machines — Lifecycle & Configuration

Block 4

Templates, Clones & Content Libraries

Blocks 5–6

Virtual Networking

Standard Switches & vSphere Distributed Switches

Block 5

Virtual Standard Switches

Block 6

vSphere Distributed Switches

Blocks 7–8

Storage

Datastores, NFS, iSCSI & vSAN

Block 7

Storage — Datastores, NFS & iSCSI

Block 8

vSAN — Hyper-Converged Storage

Blocks 9–10

Availability & Recovery

vMotion, HA, DRS, Snapshots & Backup

Block 9

vMotion, HA & DRS

Block 10

Snapshots, Backup & Recovery

Blocks 11–14

Operations, Security & Automation

Monitoring, Hardening, PowerCLI & Lifecycle Management

Block 11

Monitoring, Alarms & Troubleshooting

Block 12

Security, Roles & Hardening

Block 13

PowerCLI & REST API Automation

Block 14

Lifecycle Management — Patching, vLCM & Upgrades

vSphereAdministration

vSphere
Administration