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Course Introduction
Module 1

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

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Importance

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This course equips administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a VMware vSphere environment. It focuses on the installation and configuration of VMware vSphere ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter Server. It also focuses on the management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Server. This course helps prepare IT professionals to achieve the status of VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5).

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Learner Objectives

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After this course, you should be able to do the following: Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage. Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances. Manage user access to the virtual infrastructure. Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage. Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure. Plan business continuity solutions. Manage changes to the vSphere environment. Use a command-line interface to manage vSphere. Install and configure ESXi and vCenter Server.

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You Are Here

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Course Introduction
Introduction to Virtualization Creating Virtual Machines VMware vCenter Server Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks Configuring and Managing vSphere Storage Virtual Machine Management

Data Protection Access and Authentication Control Resource Management and Monitoring High Availability and Fault Tolerance Host Scalability Patch Management Installing VMware vSphere Components

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http://it4training.com Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this course:

Monospace Filenames, folder names, path names, command names: the bin directory What the user types: Type ipconfig and press Enter. Graphical user interface items: the Configuration tab Book titles and emphasis: vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide Placeholders: <ESXi_host_name>

Monospace bold Boldface Italic

<filename>

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http://it4training.com What Is vSphere Enterprise?

existing applications future applications
VM VM VM VM VM

VMware vSphere Enterprise Edition is an infrastructure virtualization suite that does the following:

VM

VM

VM

VMware vCenter Suite VMware vSphere Enterprise

Application Services
availability - VMware vSphere vMotion - VMware vSphere Storage vMotion - vMotion nonshared storage - vSphere HA - Fault Tolerance - Data Recovery - Data Protection - VMware vCloud Connector - VMware Tools : Zero downtime upgrades compute - VMware ESXi - DRS and vSphere DPM - Memory overcommit - Hardware version 9 - 64-way SMP - 1TB virtual machines security scalability

Provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities Aggregates physical hardware resources and provides virtual resources to the datacenter
Services

- VMware vShield Zones - VMware VMsafe - VMware vShield Endpoint

- DRS - Hot add

Infrastructure

storage - VMFS - Thin provisioning - Storage I/O controls - Storage DRS - Profile driven Storage - Storage reclamation

network - Enhanced distributed switch - Network I/O controls - SR-IOV support

private cloud resource pools

public cloud

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VMware Certification

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The VMware Certified Professional (VCP) program is for technical individuals who want to demonstrate their vSphere expertise and advance their career.
This course can be taken to fulfill the course requirement for VCP5. VMware highly recommends taking the vSphere Optimize and Scale course. VCDX VCAP-DCA VCAP-DCD VCP

Expert
Advanced Professional Professional

For details on VMware certifications, go to:

http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification

For the latest VCP5 Exam Blueprint, go to:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-16726
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VMware Online Resources http://it4training.com

VMware Communities: http://communities.vmware.com Start a discussion and access communities and user groups. VMware Support: http://www.vmware.com/support Access the knowledge base, documentation, technical papers, and compatibility guides. VMware Education: http://www.vmware.com/education Access the course catalog and worldwide course schedule. Access information about advanced courses to continue on your virtualization training path. For easy access to online resources, install the VMware toolbar.

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http://it4training.com vSphere Product Documentation

For vSphere product documentation, go to:

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html

See the current vSphere manuals at this Web site for information about configuration maximums and installation requirements.

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