Private corporate batches, live online cohorts and 1-on-1 mentoring in vSphere in production — ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, DRS, HA, vSAN, distributed switching and PowerCLI automation — taught by a practitioner who runs it in production.
20 years across DevOps, SRE and Security · 10,000+ engineers trained · Trained teams at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia and the World Bank
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Rajesh teaches VMware as an operated platform rather than a click-through: ESXi installation and host configuration, vCenter inventory and permission design, datastore and storage policy choices with their latency consequences, standard versus distributed switching, and the resource controls — shares, reservations, limits, resource pools — that decide who loses under contention. The availability work is hands-on: vMotion and Storage vMotion under load, DRS and admission control, HA failover triggered by pulling a host, plus patching through Lifecycle Manager and PowerCLI automation of the tasks nobody should do twice.
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security, in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe and others. He has trained engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus — more than 10,000 people personally. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
You are booked with a named engineer, and that is who turns up. Marketplaces and larger providers rotate whoever is free, so the person who sold you the agenda is rarely the person teaching it.
The same trainer is available for the next engagement, which matters when a team builds on what it learned last time.
Your batch is assigned a named trainer before it starts, and that is who teaches it. See the full faculty.
Engagements are matched on the tool, not the calendar. For VMware that means a trainer who has run it in production — vSphere in production — ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, DRS, HA, vSAN, distributed switching and PowerCLI automation — rather than whoever is free that week. You are told who is teaching before you commit, and that person is on the discovery call that shapes the agenda.
Where a batch is large enough to need a second trainer, the pairing is declared up front. The lead trainer stays accountable for the syllabus and the assessment either way.
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe, IBM/Emptoris, Ness, MindTree and Accenture. He has trained more than 10,000 engineers personally, at organisations including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
Teams of 8–30
Custom agenda, your timezone, onsite or online, NDA-friendly.
Request a quoteIndividual engineers
A private instructor and a curriculum built around your goal.
₹99,999Individuals who want peers
Scheduled batch, max 8 to 10 hours of live instruction.
₹34,999A private batch starts with a discovery call. We look at the stack you actually run — the CI system, the cloud, the constraints — and map the agenda onto it, so examples use your topology rather than a generic one.
Delivery is onsite at your premises, live online, or hybrid, scheduled around your release calendar rather than ours. Batches run 8 to 30 engineers.
Every attendee leaves with recordings, slides, lab repositories and a completion certificate. You receive an attendance and assessment report. Invoicing supports PO and GST.
Talk to us about a private VMware batchVMware is the product family that made server virtualization an enterprise standard, and vSphere is its core. vSphere is two things working together: ESXi, a type 1 hypervisor installed directly onto server hardware, and vCenter Server, the management plane that turns a collection of ESXi hosts into a single pooled resource with clusters, shared datastores, distributed switching and centralised access control. An engineer administering VMware spends almost all of their time in vCenter and almost none of it logged into an individual host.
The capabilities that matter operationally come from that pooling. vMotion moves a running virtual machine between hosts without interrupting it; Storage vMotion does the same for its disks. DRS uses vMotion automatically to balance load and to evacuate a host for maintenance. High Availability restarts virtual machines elsewhere when a host fails, and Fault Tolerance keeps a shadow instance in lockstep for the small number of workloads that cannot tolerate a restart. Resource pools, shares, reservations and limits arbitrate contention. vSAN aggregates local disks across a cluster into a shared datastore, removing the external array from the design.
Around vSphere sits the rest of the portfolio: NSX for network virtualization and micro-segmentation, Aria for operations management and automation, VMware Cloud Foundation as the integrated stack, Tanzu for running Kubernetes on the same infrastructure, and Workstation and Fusion on the desktop. Administration is done through the vSphere Client, but at any real scale it is done through PowerCLI, which is where repeatable VMware work actually happens.
A very large share of enterprise workloads still runs on vSphere, and those estates need people who can operate them properly — size clusters, plan maintenance without downtime, patch hosts through a lifecycle manager, diagnose storage latency, and restore a vCenter that has failed. That demand has not gone away, and in many organisations the population of engineers who genuinely know the platform is shrinking rather than growing.
At the same time, licensing and portfolio changes have made VMware a live architectural question in a way it was not for a decade. Teams are being asked to model the cost of staying, to compare against KVM-based platforms and public cloud, and in some cases to migrate. All three of those tasks require someone who understands what vSphere actually provides — vMotion, DRS, HA, distributed switching, storage policies — because a migration that does not replace those capabilities explicitly will replace them accidentally and badly.
The third driver is the boundary with containers. Tanzu and vSphere with Kubernetes put container workloads on the same infrastructure, and platform teams are increasingly expected to run both. That means knowing where a Kubernetes node's problem is actually a datastore latency problem, which is a skill that only comes from understanding the layer underneath.
Orientation across a large product family. What vSphere is and is not, how ESXi and vCenter divide responsibility, and where NSX, vSAN, Aria, Cloud Foundation, Tanzu, Workstation and Fusion sit around it — plus editions, licensing and the features each unlocks.
Topics: vSphere: ESXi and vCenter Server · The wider portfolio: NSX, vSAN, Aria, Cloud Foundation, Tanzu · Workstation and Fusion for desktop virtualization · Editions, licensing and feature gating · vSphere versus KVM-based platforms and public cloud · Reference architectures and sizing at a high level · Interoperability, compatibility guides and version planning
The hypervisor itself. Hardware requirements and compatibility, interactive and scripted installation, the direct console interface, host networking and storage adapters, time and name resolution, lockdown mode, and the host-level settings that must be identical across a cluster.
Topics: Hardware requirements and the compatibility guide · Interactive, scripted and auto-deploy installation · The direct console user interface and recovery options · Host management network and management access · Storage adapters: local, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe · NTP, DNS, syslog and core dump configuration · Lockdown mode, host profiles and configuration consistency · ESXi shell, SSH and esxcli for troubleshooting
The management plane. Deploying and sizing vCenter, single sign-on and identity sources, the inventory hierarchy of datacentres, clusters, folders and hosts, then roles, privileges and propagation — the access model that decides who can delete a production virtual machine.
Topics: Deploying and sizing vCenter Server · Single sign-on, identity sources and directory integration · Inventory: datacentres, clusters, folders, resource pools · Roles, privileges, permissions and propagation · Tags, categories and inventory organisation · Alarms, events and scheduled tasks · vCenter backup, restore and file-based recovery · vCenter high availability and linked mode
Creating and managing guests at scale rather than one at a time. Virtual hardware versions and device choices, VMware Tools, templates and customisation specifications, content libraries, clones and snapshots — and the snapshot practices that quietly cause outages.
Topics: Virtual hardware versions and device selection · Paravirtual controllers, VMXNET3 and driver choice · VMware Tools installation and lifecycle · Templates, guest customisation specifications and deployment · Content libraries and cross-site distribution · Full clones, linked clones and instant clones · Snapshots: mechanics, chain depth and consolidation · Open Virtualization Format import and export
Where virtual machines live. VMFS and NFS datastores, multipathing and path selection, thin and thick provisioning, Storage vMotion, storage policy-based management, and vSAN as an alternative to an external array — plus how to tell a storage latency problem from a guest problem.
Topics: VMFS and NFS datastores compared · iSCSI, Fibre Channel and NVMe-oF connectivity · Multipathing, path selection policies and failover · Thin, thick lazy and thick eager provisioning · Storage vMotion and datastore maintenance · Storage policy-based management and per-VM policy · vSAN architecture: disk groups, fault domains, failures to tolerate · Diagnosing latency: device, kernel and guest queues
The virtual network layer. Standard switches per host versus distributed switches managed centrally, port groups and VLAN tagging, uplinks, teaming and failover order, traffic shaping, VMkernel adapters for management, vMotion and storage — and an orientation on NSX and micro-segmentation.
Topics: Standard switches, port groups and uplinks · Distributed switches, dvPortgroups and centralised configuration · VLAN tagging modes and trunking · NIC teaming, load balancing policies and failover order · VMkernel adapters: management, vMotion, storage, fault tolerance · Traffic shaping and network I/O control · Health check, port mirroring and NetFlow · NSX and micro-segmentation — where it changes the design
Deciding who wins under contention, and what happens when hardware fails. Shares, reservations and limits, resource pools and the sibling-share trap, then vMotion mechanics, DRS automation levels, HA admission control and restart priority, and Fault Tolerance with its real constraints.
Topics: Shares, reservations, limits and expandable reservations · Resource pools and the pitfalls of nested pools · vMotion: requirements, mechanics and compatibility · Enhanced vMotion Compatibility and CPU masking · DRS automation levels, affinity and anti-affinity rules · Maintenance mode and rolling host evacuation · HA: admission control policies, restart priority, isolation response · Fault Tolerance, Proactive HA and their limits
Running the estate over time. Patching and upgrading hosts through Lifecycle Manager, image and baseline management, logging and monitoring, capacity and performance analysis, backup approaches for virtual machines, and PowerCLI for everything that should not be done by hand twice.
Topics: Lifecycle Manager: baselines, images and remediation · Rolling cluster upgrades with no workload downtime · Syslog, log bundles and support diagnostics · Performance charts, esxtop and identifying the constrained resource · Capacity planning and consolidation ratio · Backup and replication approaches for virtual machines · PowerCLI: connecting, querying and bulk operations · Automating audits, reporting and provisioning with PowerCLI
We rebuild the agenda around the tools you actually run.
Request a custom agendaInstall ESXi interactively and by script, bring both to an identical documented standard, and verify the configuration entirely from esxcli.
Build an inventory and permission model for three teams, back up vCenter, destroy it, and restore it with inventory, roles and tags intact.
Migrate a running virtual machine between datastores under load, then diagnose an induced latency problem down to device, kernel or guest queue using esxtop.
Migrate hosts from standard switches to a distributed switch without dropping connectivity, then pull an uplink under traffic and verify teaming behaves as configured.
Configure DRS, admission control and restart priorities, then fail a host outright and measure what actually restarted, in what order, and how long it took.
Remediate a cluster to a new image with no workload downtime, then write PowerCLI that audits every host and virtual machine against your build standard and reports drift.
Billed yearly at ₹9,996
Max 8 to 10 hours of live instruction
Full program, private instructor
8–30 engineers · custom agenda · onsite or online · PO and GST invoicing
Refunds. If we cancel or postpone a cohort, you get a full refund within 15 days. There is no money-back guarantee otherwise.
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Great learning experience from a very knowledgeable instructor with well-prepared course notes. The lab exercises on AWS instance work well to learn the hands-on side of the course.
Rajesh is a very good trainer I have experienced in DevSecOps training. The number of contents in different topics he has posted on the DevOpsSchool public website are amazing and user friendly for beginners and experienced professionals.
The trainer (Rajesh) provided very good sessions on SRE profession. Not only hands-on learning on the tools but also SRE mindset.
Very good training session. Well explained from the basics to the complex concepts. Also tried to cover practicals and demos within the 3 hour sessions. The learning content and videos are of a great deal of help.
Basics explanation was exemplary from Rajesh where he dealt with complicated topics to be simple. Great learning stuff personally for me.
Very detailed explanation and has lots of patience in attending the questionnaire. Thanks again for your wonderful sessions.
| What matters | YouTube + blogs | Generic online course | Freelance marketplace | DevOpsSchool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named practitioner | No | Rarely | Varies per booking | Yes — same trainer each time |
| Production experience | Unknown | Unknown | Unverified | 20 years, named employers |
| Custom agenda | No | No | Sometimes | Built from your stack |
| Onsite delivery | No | No | Sometimes | Yes |
| Lab environment | None | Sandbox that expires | Varies | Your own cloud — skill goes with you |
| Assessment | None | Quiz | Rarely | Assignments + capstone per module |
| Per-attendee certificates | No | Sometimes | Rarely | Yes |
| Corporate invoicing | No | Limited | Varies | PO and GST |
| Post-training support | None | Forum, time-limited | None | Lifetime forum access |
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