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VMware vSphere: Transition to ESXi

This hands-on training course covers the requirements and effects of transitioning your VMware vSphere environment to VMware ESXi. It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions and successfully add ESXi to a deployed vSphere environment. The course is based on ESXi 4.1.

Target Audience

System administrators, systems engineers, technical support engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and supporting a vSphere installation

Prerequisites

Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware vSphere 4: What's New course or have experience using VMware ESX/ESXi and VMware vCenter products

Delegates will learn how to

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

Analyze ESXi and its benefits for your environment
Identify ESXi installation and configuration procedures
Use scripted installations for large-scale ESXi deployments
Employ scripting interfaces to manage ESXi

Course Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Working with VMware ESXi

Identify differences between ESX and ESXi
Recognize tasks and procedures when moving to ESXi

Module 3: Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi

Analyze ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
Install and configure ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
Recognize the steps for upgrading to ESXi

Module 4: Performing Management Tasks

Identify hardware monitoring techniques
Discuss system management and backup methodology
Distinguish the log files
Recognize security methodologies
Employ file management practices
Perform basic troubleshooting with the direct console user interface

Module 5: Large-Scale Deployment of VMware ESXi

Identify scripted installation programs for ESXi (SDK and Weasel)
Analyze the commands to perform scripted installation
Discuss best practices for large-scale deployment

Module 6: Using Scripting Interfaces

Identify the scripting interfaces for ESXi
Discuss primary scripting interfaces
Install VMware vSphere Management Assistant
Identify differences between commands used with ESX and those used with ESXi
Recognize custom commands and how to substitute VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands or vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets for them