VMware vSphere

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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

• Using VMware vCenter™ Server to deploy virtual machines
• Performing live migrations of virtual machines
• Configuring VMware ESX™ clusters 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

• Module 1: Course 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™ and 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