ITTA VMware catalogue in Geneva and Lausanne around vSphere 8 (Install Configure Manage, Advanced Administration, Design, Fast Track, What’s New) and vSphere with Tanzu. A learning path for virtualisation administrators, infrastructure engineers and architects, from technical foundation to Design level and native Kubernetes deployment. Cross-link available with Horizon (VDI), NSX (networking), vSAN (storage), Aria (automation) and App Volumes.
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This provides hands-on training to equip students with a range of skills: from performing routine VMware vSphere® 8 administrative tasks.
Certifying
This training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 8 virtual infrastructure.
Certifying
This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size using vSphere 8, which includes VMware ESXi 8 and VMware vCenter Server 8.
Certifying
This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size.
Certifying
During course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with Tanzu.
Certifying
In this two-day course, you explore the new features and enhancements following VMware vCenter Server 8.0 and VMware ESXi 8.0.
VMware remains a reference technology for datacenter virtualisation, hyperconvergence and the orchestration of containerised workloads. The ITTA VMware catalogue, delivered in Geneva and Lausanne, covers the full learning cycle around vSphere 8: installation, configuration, day-to-day administration, advanced administration, infrastructure design, version upgrade, and native Kubernetes deployment through vSphere with Tanzu. The training courses are aimed at systems administrators, infrastructure engineers, virtualisation architects and private cloud operators.
Following the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, the ecosystem has shifted around consolidated bundles (VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, VMware Cloud Foundation for Edge). For organisations operating a vSphere estate, two dynamics co-exist: optimising current usage and preparing convergence toward consolidated offerings. This requires that infrastructure teams master the current version (vSphere 8), understand the new features (vSphere with Tanzu, DPU offload, improved vMotion) and design sustainable architectures. ITTA VMware training covers these dimensions through a structured approach, from technical foundation to architecture design.
The recommended starting point is VMware vSphere v8 – Install, Configure and Manage (ICM), which covers ESXi installation, vCenter Server configuration, virtual machine management, datastores, virtual networking (standard and distributed vSwitch), high availability, DRS, vMotion, and security principles. This course lays the foundation for any vSphere administration. For experienced profiles, vSphere v8 – Advanced Administration goes deeper into performance, scripting and automation, backup, host management and advanced troubleshooting. The Fast Track course combines ICM and Advanced Administration over a condensed duration, a format appreciated by experienced engineers.
For architects and consultants designing infrastructures, vSphere v8 – Design covers target architecture: sizing, hyperconvergence choices (vSAN), networking (NSX), high availability patterns, recovery plans and fault tolerance. Finally, vSphere v8 – What’s New is a short format for administrators already certified on vSphere 7 who want to update quickly on the key evolutions of version 8.
With vSphere with Tanzu, VMware enables infrastructure teams to expose managed Kubernetes clusters directly on the vSphere foundation, without installing a separate platform. For organisations looking to unify VM and container workload management under a single console, this is a major technological shift. The dedicated training covers Supervisor Cluster activation, namespace creation, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) deployment, operational best practices and the link with tools in the ITTA virtualisation domain.
To explore the detailed offer for VMware and the associated ecosystems, here are the entry points in the ITTA catalogue:
VMware training sessions take place in Geneva and Lausanne on-site, and also in synchronous remote mode. Hands-on labs make up a substantial part of each day: full deployment of an ESXi/vCenter cluster, virtual network configuration, high availability setup, troubleshooting scenarios. Sessions are aimed at administrators or engineers with a base of systems and networking knowledge; for profiles without prior experience, ITTA recommends starting with a Windows Server or networking course before tackling vSphere.
ITTA VMware training partially prepares for the vendor’s official certifications. On vSphere 8, the VCP-DCV 2024 (Data Center Virtualization) exam remains the most recognised credential to validate operational mastery of the platform. Taking the exam requires the official course (ICM or equivalent) followed by the 2V0-21.23 test administered by Pearson VUE. ITTA can help schedule this exam alongside the training. For architects, the VCAP-DCV Design exam validates design skills; for advanced profiles, VCAP-DCV Deploy tests hands-on skills on a live lab. Exam vouchers are not included by default and can be added on request.
Should we stay on VMware or move to another platform? Many organisations are asking this question since the Broadcom acquisition. The answer depends on context: estate size, contractual constraints, software ecosystem, internal skill level. Alternatives to consider include Microsoft Hyper-V (already included in Windows Server), Proxmox VE (open source), Nutanix AHV or public cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP). For most organisations that have invested in vSphere for years, the right strategy remains optimisation and gradual convergence rather than abrupt migration.
What is the difference between vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation? vSphere is the historic hypervisor layer; VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a bundle integrating vSphere, vSAN, NSX and Aria to deliver a complete ready-to-use private cloud platform. The post-Broadcom commercial direction is pushing toward VCF, which justifies training investment on the constitutive blocks.
A vSphere administrator quickly grows in skills by extending the scope to other suite bricks. vSAN brings the hyperconverged storage layer, NSX enables network virtualisation and micro-segmentation, Aria (formerly vRealize) automates and industrialises operations, Horizon delivers virtual desktop infrastructure, and App Volumes simplifies application management in VDI environments. For an architect or consultant, mastering several of these bricks transforms an administrator profile into an infrastructure architect profile capable of designing coherent targets. ITTA offers a complete catalogue allowing this progressive learning path over 12 to 24 months depending on the collaborator’s pace and goals.
An experienced vSphere administrator today regularly interacts with public clouds: VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud. These offerings allow extending an on-premise estate into the cloud without rewriting virtual machines, keeping the vCenter interface. For vSphere engineers, understanding these offerings opens opportunities: designing hybrid architectures, cross-site disaster recovery plans, seasonal bursting (cloud bursting), gradual migration. ITTA addresses these dimensions alongside classic vSphere training, and also offers dedicated public cloud courses (AWS, Azure) for profiles seeking to develop a dual virtualisation and cloud competence.
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