This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 5.1. 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 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1. 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. This training course is targeted at experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.The objectives are:
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses. This training course is targeted at experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.The objectives are:
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
- Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
- 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 (FT)
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
- Use profile-driven storage and VMware vSphere Storage DRS to scale storage
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
- Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
- Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Use VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image
- Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
