Course Outline
VMware vSphere 5 Training - Course Outline - Getting Started with VMware vSphere 5 Training Course
Lab Setup
Course Scenario
Overview of VMware vSphere 5
Installing VMware ESXi 5
Installing vCenter 5
Installing vCenter 5 as a Linux Appliance (vCSA)
Using the vSphere 5 Web Client
What’s New in vSphere 5
Navigating vSphere using the vSphere Client
vCenter 5 – Configuring Your New Virtual Infrastructure
Creating and Modifying Virtual Guest Machines
Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
Why You Need VMware Tools
Understanding and Using Tasks, Events, and Alarms
Virtual Storage 101 and Storage Terminology
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
Creating a Free iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
Administering VMware ESXi Server Security
vSphere Virtual Networking
Using the vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (dvswitch)
Moving Virtual Machines with vMotion
Moving Virtual Storage with svMotion
Performance Optimization with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Implementing High Availability with VMware HA (VMHA)
Why Do You Need High Availability (HA)?
VMHA Saving the Day
VMHA Master / Slave
Requirements for VMHA
Best Practices for VMHA
Configuring VMHA
Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
Introduction to VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
Upgrading from VMware vSphere 4 to vSphere 5
vSphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Options
vSphere Auto Deploy
Storage DRS
Policy-driven Storage
Understanding the New vSphere 5 vRAM Pooled Pricing
Network I/O Control (NIOC)
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
ESXi Firewall
VMware Data Recovery (VDR) 2