• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• Operators responsible for VMware® ESX™, ESXi, and VMware vCenter™ Server

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
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESX/ESXi patches
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components

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

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

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

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

Virtual Machines
• 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

Access Control
• Control user access through roles and permissions

Resource Monitoring
• Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
• Introduce VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

Data Protection
• Back up and recover virtual machines using VMware Data Recovery

Scalability
• 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

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

Patch Management
• Manage patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager

Installing VMware ESX and ESXi
• Introduce ESX and ESXi Installable installation