| Course Description | |
| This powerful 5-day class is an intense introduction to virtualization using VMware's vSphere 5.0 including VMware ESX 5.0 and vCenter. This class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. More than 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced.
Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced. The class continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, back-up and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered.
This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers clear, tangible benefits (e.g.: reduced costs, greater consistency, responsiveness, reduced administration, server consolidation, etc.). Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software. Course Length: 5 Days Course Tuition: $2850 (US) |
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| Prerequisites | |
| Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. All attendees should have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc. | |
| Course Outline |
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Introduction to vSphere
VMware ESXi 5.0
vSphere Client->ESXi
Virtual Networking
NAS/NFS
Virtual Machines
vCenter
VM Actions
Shared Storage
VMware File System
Resource Pools
Alarms
Host Profiles
Converter
VM Migration
DRS
VMware HA
Update Manager
Performance
Final Thoughts |
