• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESXi, ESX, and vCenter Server

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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 or ESXi
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Configure and manage ESX/ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server
• Increase scalability using vCenter Server
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server
• Apply ESX/ESXi patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager
• Manage higher availability and data protection using vCenter Server

Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

• Introduce virtualization, the cloud, and vSphere components

• Introduce the architecture of ESX and ESXi
• Manually configure ESX/ESXi

• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects

• Create, configure, and manage vNetwork standard switches, network connections, and port groups

• Configure ESX/ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere datastores

• Deploy virtual machines using the Create New Virtual Machine wizard, templates, cloning, and VMware vCenter Converter
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Perform Storage vMotion migrations

• Control user access through roles and permissions

• Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

• Back up and recover virtual machines using VMware Data Recovery

• Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories using VMware vCenter Linked Mode
• Manage ESX/ESXi configuration compliance using Host Profiles
• Create, configure, and manage vNetwork distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• Perform VMware vMotion migrations
• Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
• Configure and manage VMware Distributed Power Management

• Manage patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager

• Configure and manage a VMware High Availability cluster
• Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance

• Introduce ESX and ESXi Installable installation