Course spotlight — VMware® vSphere Fast Track [V8]
System Administrators, enhance your toolkit with VMware® vSphere 8. Could this course be right for you?
Bob Armstrong
20 May, 2025
If you'd like to advance your career in creating and improving virtualised systems, a VMware® certification such as vSphere would be very useful, attesting to your skills and competence!
What does this certification entail? Could it be right for you?
Let's take a look.
What is VMware® vSphere?
US-based VMware LLC is a Cloud Computing and Virtualisation company headquartered in Palo Alto. They offer fully integrated, scalable infrastructure solutions for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, and have recently acquired Bitfusion to increase their AI capabilities.
vSphere is VMware's proprietary cloud virtualisation platform. It allows companies to consolidate physical servers, run multiple virtual machines (VMs) on each server, and manage these VMs and their underlying infrastructure from a centralised platform, increasing efficiency, flexibility, and security.
What does the vSphere Fast Track course entail?
The vSphere Fast Track is your one-stop-shop to learn fundamental to advanced vSphere skills to operate this technology. The course helps you develop the skills you need to install, configure, and scale a vSphere infrastructure for an organisation of any size using vSphere 8—which includes VMware ESXi™ 8 and VMware vCenter Server® 8—and everything in between.
To achieve this, the course takes you through 13 comprehensive modules:
- Course Introduction
- vSphere and Virtualisation Overview
- vCenter Management
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Configure and Manage vSphere Networking
- Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
- Managing Virtual Machines
- vSphere Monitoring
- Deploying and Configuring vSphere Cluster
- ESXi Operations
- Managing the vSphere Lifecycle
- Network Operations
- Storage Operations
Who is vSphere Fast Track for?
This course is ideal for professionals such as System Administrators, System Engineers, Cloud Administrators, Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Virtual Infrastructure Administrators.
Before attending this course, you should have System Administration experience in Windows or Linux.
How long does the course take?
At Firebrand, we specialise in accelerated training. Our VMware® vSphere Fast Track [V8] course takes only 5 days, exam included.
Where is the course delivered?
You can take this course at our distraction-free training facilities (accommodations & meals included) or online through live instructor-led training (nothing prerecorded!).
Does the course include an exam?
Yes. At the end of this course, you can take the latest version of the official VMware® vSphere V8 professional exam, 2V0-21.23, at the Firebrand Training Centre and return to work certified!
Interested?
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