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Upgrading skills from VMware VI3 to vSphere

Intended for

This course is designed for system administrators ans systems engineers who are responsible for the integration, administration and management of ESX Server.

Background

Completion of the Vmware VI3 course of equivalent experience with VMware ESX.

Training method

Instructor-led classroom training with exercises. Each pair of student disposes of a server to make the exercices.

Course leader

RealDolmen.

Duration

2 days.

Schedule

No public sessions are currently scheduled. We will be pleased to set up an on-site course or to schedule an extra public session (in case of a sufficient number of candidates). Interested ? Please contact ABIS.

Objectives

This hands-on training explores the new features of VMware vSphere using a vCenter envrironment

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Deploy distributed virtual switches to simplify datacenter-wide network management
  • Use and manage VMware Storage VMotion
  • Ensure application availability using VMware Fault Tolerance
  • Use the new host profile feature to keep hosts uniformly configured

Main topics

  • Introduction to vSphere 4
  • vSphere enhancements
  • review upgrade tools and strategies
  • Networking
  • Working with Distributed Virtual Switches
  • Management
  • New features in vCenter
  • Using and managing Host profiles
  • Storage
  • Working with thin provisioning to save disk space
  • Resource management
  • Working with Storage VMotion
  • New Distributed Resource Scheduling features
  • High availability
  • Introducing VMware Fault Tolerance