System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESXi, ESX, and/or vCenter Server.

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware vSphere 4 and be able to:

• Install and configure ESX
• Install and configure vCenter Server
• Configure and manage ESX networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deploy and manage virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Increase scalability using vCenter Server
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server
• Apply patches using vCenter Update Manager
• Manage higher availability and data protection using vCenter Server Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

Module 1: Course Introduction Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Discussion of virtualization and vSphere components Module 3: Configuring ESXi/ESX
• Configuration of ESXi and ESX Module 4: Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server
• Install and configure vCenter Server, and use the vSphere Client to manage vCenter inventory hierarchies Module 5: Networking
• Configuration of vNetwork standard and distributed switches, network connections, and port groups Module 6: Storage
• Storage management technologies Module 7: Virtual Machines
• Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCenter Converter, Guided Consolidation
• Modifying, managing, and migrating virtual machines Module 8: Access Control
• Controlling user access through roles and permissions Module 9: Resource Monitoring
• Workload assessment, monitoring using vCenter Server Module 10: Scalability
• VMware vMotion™ migrations
• Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster Module 11: High Availability and Data Protection
• Setup of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
• Backup and recovery of virtual machines using vCenter Data Recovery Module 12: Configuration Management
• Patching using vCenter Update Manager Module 13: Installing ESX
• Installation of ESX Approximately 26 hours of instructor-led, classroom training. 50% lecture and 50% hands-on lab.