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VMware vSphere: Overview

This hands-on training course introduces the most compelling features of VMware® vSphere^TM 4. This course demonstrates vSphere features that help to reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability.

Target audience

This course is designed for technical persons responsible for evaluating ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server, including IT managers, system architects, and system administrators.

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Delegates will learn how to

Using VMware vCenter^TMServer to deploy virtual machines
Performing live migrations of virtual machines
Configuring VMware ESX^TMclusters to automatically balance virtual machine workloads
Hierarchically allocating CPU and memory resources to specific business functions
Using vCenter Server alarms to proactively monitor the virtual datacenter
Ensuring high availability of applications

Course Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

Introduction

Module 2: Virtual Infrastructure Overview

Define virtualization and identify vSphere components
Learn to use the vCenter Server management interface
View virtual network and storage components

Module 3: Creating Virtual Machines

Create and use templates to deploy virtual machines
Automate guest operating system customization

Module 4: Allocating Compute Resources to Business Functions

Hierarchically allocate CPU and memory resources
Set virtual machine priorities on CPU and memory resources
Create resource pools

Module 5: Migrating Virtual Machines

Migrate live virtual machines using VMware VMotion^TMand VMware Storage VMotion

Module 6: Balancing Virtual Machine Workloads

Configure a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster and resource pools

Module 7: Monitoring the Virtual Datacenter

Become familiar with vCenter Server graphs to monitor virtual machine performance Use vCenter Server alarms to monitor and proactively respond to ESX/ESXi and virtual machine state changes

Module 8: High Availability and Fault Tolerance

Configure a VMware High Availability cluster Understand how VMware Fault Tolerance works

Module 9: Extending VMware vSphere Capabilities

Discuss how different VMware products and features work together to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your datacenter