VMware vSphere 4.0 Administration Fundamentals

CLASS DATE(s):
12/20/2010 - 12/23/2010

COURSE LENGTH: 4 Days

COURSE COST: $2995*

COURSE TIMES: 8:30am - 4:00pm


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COURSE OVERVIEW

The VMware® vSphere 4.0 Administration Fundamentals is taught by top virtualization experts and offers hands-on labs designed to expose the student to everyday administrative tasks using the vSphere Client and introductory command line skills to manage the VMware® vSphere 4.0 product suite.

Administration Fundamentals is designed to give the student skills training through hands-on experience with state-of-the art equipment to instill the knowledge required for the student to do their job efficiently and effectively.

We provide a comprehensive Beginner to Intermediate training experience, starting from the installation of the licensed product to real world troubleshooting scenarios. The course focus is not limited only to learning and harnessing the power of VMware® but the entire concept of virtualization and other 3rd party tools and technologies that will enhance VMware® capabilities and increase the student’s virtualization expertise.

Students must have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.

Course Cost listed above does not include the cost of books. Please contact a VTEC Account Manager (sales@vtec.org or 207.775.0244) for information on current courseware available for this class.

COURSE TOPICS:

Planning ESX Server Deployment

vSphere 4 Deployment Guidelines

ESX Installation (HOL)

ESX Management

ESXi Installation (HOL)

ESXi Management

Configuring Resolution Mgt and NTP

Overview of 3rd Party Tools (HOL)

Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)

iSCSI Storage (HOL)

Fibre Channel Storage

VMFS Datastores (HOL)

NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (HOL)

Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)

Storage Comparisons

Licensing

vCenter Installation (HOL)

vCenter Inventory (HOL)

Managing vCenter

Planning vCenter Deployment

Troubleshooting vCenter, license, and database

Troubleshooting the VIC

Create a VM (HOL)

Create Multiple VMs (HOL)

Virtual Appliances (HOL)

Physical to Virtual Conversions (HOL)

Manage VMs (HOL)

Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown

Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)

Web Access (HOL)

Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Data Recovery (GUI Backup & Restore) (HOL)

User Access (HOL)

Configuring VMotion (HOL)

Storage VMotion (HOL)

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)

Resource Pools in DRS Cluster (HOL)

High Availability (HA) (HOL)

Patching ESX Server 4

Upgrades and Migrations

Update Manager (HOL)

Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x

Tools for Optimization

Monitor VM Performance (HOL)

Configuring Alarms (HOL)

4 ESX and vCenter Log Files (HOL)