Summary:

- Formats: Classroom, Onsite - Length: 30 Days

Overview:

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses.

Objectives:

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Use VMware vCenter Converter™ Standalone
• Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Implement VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
• Use profile-driven storage and Storage DRS to scale storage
• Use VMware vCenter™ Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
• Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi image
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts