• Infrastructure or virtualization engineers, system administrators, and cloud engineers who work with VMware vSphere environments
• IT professionals seeking VMware certification (VCP-DCV 2024)
• Those who manage or intend to manage enterprise-scale virtualization deployments
• Candidates preparing to take the 2V0-21.23 exam

• Working experience with virtualization and basic understanding of data center concepts
• Familiarity with networking, storage, and server infrastructure
• Hands-on experience (or lab exposure) with earlier versions of vSphere or VMware products
• Basic comfort with command-line interfaces and system administration

• Deploy, configure, and operate VMware vSphere 8.x infrastructure
• Install and upgrade ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, including vCenter HA
• Design and configure efficient, scalable virtualization environments with HA, DRS, clustering
• Manage networking via distributed switches, configure advanced networking stacks
• Manage storage: datastores, policies, vSAN integration, and optimize IO with SIOC / NIOC
• Perform migrations (vMotion, Storage vMotion, cross-vCenter) and VM lifecycle operations
• Configure and manage certificate and identity services (SSO, LDAP, domain integration)
• Maintain and update vSphere via Lifecycle Manager, patching, firmware/driver management
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, analyze logs and metrics
• Configure role-based access control, secure configuration, trust authority, and encryption
• Recover from operational issues, restore backups, diagnose critical failures
• Optimize performance through resource management, tuning, and efficient design
• Be fully prepared to sit for and pass the 2V0-21.23 VMware vSphere 8.x Professional exam

• ESXi host architecture, vSphere distributed services engine, vSAN fundamentals
• Differences among vSphere editions, vSphere+, role of vSphere in the software-defined data center
• Integration with Kubernetes / Tanzu, zones, supervisor clusters

• Use cases for vSphere+, vCenter Converter, SRM / replication, DR solutions
  • Licensing, feature sets, product bundling
  
  

• Host sizing, capacity planning, workload placement, network segmentation

• High-availability, fault tolerance, redundancy design

• Deploy / upgrade vSphere infrastructure (ESXi, vCenter)
• Configure Single Sign-On (SSO), identity sources, LDAP, certificate management
• Configure distributed switches, vSphere networking
• Setup clusters, HA, DRS, Admission Control, Proactive HA
• Lifecycle management via vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Set up vCenter HA, content libraries
• Configure vSphere with Tanzu, supervisor namespaces, zones
• Host profiles, Quick Boot, boot options, secure boot, lockdown mode
• Configure vCenter backups and restore operations
• Configuration of network stacks, advanced options
• Certificate management and trust authority settings
• Configure cluster Quickstart workflows
• VM deployment from templates and via content libraries

• Resource pools, shares, reservations, limits
• Monitoring vCenter / host / VM resources
• Configure Network I/O Control (NIOC), Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• Use Update Planner for upgrades and patches
• Lifecycle Manager updates for ESXi and VM hardware
• Storage policy management, datastore operations
• DRS rules (affinity, anti-affinity)
• VM migrations: vMotion, Storage vMotion, cold migrations
• VM encryption and encrypted vMotion
• Alarm configuration, performance troubleshooting
• Manage host profiles, firmware / driver compatibility checks
• NUMA tuning, vMotion enhancements, DPU offloading
• Impact of snapshots, storage and performance tradeoffs
• Use component and driver updates in lifecycle workflows
• Cross-vCenter operations

• Diagnose common issues with ESXi, vCenter, networking, storage
• Use logs, health checks, Skyline / diagnostic tools
• Root-cause analysis of PSOD, performance degradation
• Restore operations and rollback strategies
• Certificate, connectivity, authorization, identity problems
• Problems in DRS, HA, vMotion failures

• Day-to-day tasks: VM lifecycle, cloning, snapshots
• Role-based access control, permissions, RBAC
• Maintenance mode, patching, host upgrades
• Backup / restore strategies
• Certificate management, trust authority
• Lifecycle operations via vCenter, host-based tasks
• Using alarms and notifications
• Operational best practices, logging, auditing