This powerful 5-day class is an intense introduction to virtualization using VMware’s vSphere™ 5.0 including VMware ESX™ 5.0 and vCenter™. This class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. More than 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced. Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced. The class continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, back-up and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered. This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers clear, tangible benefits (e.g.: reduced costs, greater consistency, responsiveness, reduced administration, server consolidation, etc.). Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.

VMware Training Audience

System Architects, security specialists, analysts, back-up and storage administrators.

VMware Training Prerequisites

Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. All attendees should have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.

Course duration

5 Days

VMware Training Course outline

1. Introduction to vSphere 5.0

• VMware vSphere
• Problems and Opportunities
• Server Resource Utilization
• Server Consolidation
• Datacenter Issues
• OS, Application Imaging
• Back Up & Recovery
• Server Refresh
• Hardware Maintenance
• High Windows OS Costs
• MS Virtualization Calculator
• Disaster Recovery
• Test, Development & QA
• IT Technical Career Benefits
• Virtualization Over Time
• VMware ESXi
• vSphere Hardware Limits
• Small Business Bundles
• vRAM
• VMware vCenter
• Single Host Deployment
• Multiple ESXi w. Shared Storage
• Full vSphere
• Storage, Server, Network Cloud
• New Features in vSphere 5
• VMSF and SSD