Class overview :

Class goals :

By the end of the course, you will be able to explain vSphere 5.0 storage, network, and virtualization concepts and have hands-on experience with the following:

• Using the VMware vSphere® Client™ to deploy and manage virtual machines
• Using VMware vSphere® vMotion® to migrate live virtual machines
• Using vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate live virtual machine data
• Configuring ESXi clusters to automatically balance virtual machine workloads
• Hierarchically allocating CPU and memory resources to specific business functions
• Using vCenter Server alarms and performance graphs to actively monitor the datacenter

Content of VMware vSphere 5: Overview

Course Introduction

• Understand the course goals
• Understand the course objectives
• Become familiar with the course outline

Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• Describe server virtualization concepts
• Identify vSphere components, including vCenter Server, ESXi,and the vSphere Client
• View and describe virtual network and storage components
• Learn to use the vSphere Client management interface

Creating Virtual Machines

• Describe virtual machine virtual hardware components
• Create and use templates to deploy virtual machines
• Describe the functionality and benefits of installing VMware Tools on virtual machines
• Automate guest operating system customization

Allocating Compute Resources to Business Functions

• Describe CPU and memory resource management techniques used in ESXi
• Use virtual machine resource controls to allocate CPU and memory resources
• Use resources pools to hierarchically allocate CPU and memory resources

Migrating Virtual Machines

• Describe the operation and benefits of vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Use vMotion to migrate a live virtual machine
• Use Storage vMotion to migrate a live virtual machine’s data

Balancing Virtual Machine Workloads

• Describe the operation and scalability benefits of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Configure a DRS cluster and resource pools
• Describe the operation and scalability benefits of Storage DRS
• Configure a Storage DRS cluster
• Describe the operation and cost benefits of vSphere Distributed Power Management

Monitoring the Virtual Datacenter

• Describe vCenter Server monitoring capabilities, including performance graphs and alarms
• Use performance graphs to monitor ESXi hosts
• Configure ESXi host and virtual machine alarms

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Describe the operation and availability benefits of vSphere High vailability
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster
• Describe the operation and availability benefits of VMware Fault Tolerance
• Configure a virtual machine for fault tolerance

Extending VMware vSphere Capabilities

• Discuss how different VMware products and features work together to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your datacenter