By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise • Use VMware vSphere® Client™, VMware vSphere® Web Client, and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell to manage vSphere • Create a content library for deploying virtual machines • Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ and host profiles to provision VMware ESXi™ hosts and manage ESXi host compliance • Monitor and analyze key performance indicators for compute, storage, and networking resources for ESXi hosts • Optimize the performance of ESXi and VMware vCenter Server® • Harden the vSphere environment against security threats • Encrypt virtual machines for additional security