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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
Blocks 1–2
01
Platform Foundations
ESXi & vCenter — The Hypervisor & Management Plane
Blocks 3–4
02
Virtual Machines & Provisioning
Lifecycle, Templates, Clones & Content Libraries
Block 3
Virtual Machines — Lifecycle & Configuration
Block 4
Templates, Clones & Content Libraries
Blocks 5–6
03
Virtual Networking
Standard Switches & vSphere Distributed Switches
Block 5
Virtual Standard Switches
Block 6
vSphere Distributed Switches
Blocks 7–8
04
Storage
Datastores, NFS, iSCSI & vSAN
Block 7
Storage — Datastores, NFS & iSCSI
Block 8
vSAN — Hyper-Converged Storage
Blocks 9–10
05
Availability & Recovery
vMotion, HA, DRS, Snapshots & Backup
Block 9
vMotion, HA & DRS
Block 10
Snapshots, Backup & Recovery
Blocks 11–14
06
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