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VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5] in collaboration with ALSO

Reference VMWN-50
Category Storage
Date From  Wednesday, February 20, 2013 to Thursday, February 21, 2013
Schedule 9h00-12h00 et 14h00-17h30
Speaker
Language Lesson : French   Literature : English
City LANexpert Geneva
Pré-de-la-Fontaine 9 - 1217 Meyrin
Phone: +41 22 719 86 86
Fax: +41 22 719 86 87
Price (CHF) 1,950.00

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VMWN-50

Description

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMwarevCenter™ Server 5.0 and VMware® ESXi™ 5.0. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0. vSphere 5.0 is the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere 5.0 courses. Seehttp://www.vmware.com/education for advanced course options.

Audience

System administrators. IT managers. System architects. People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments.

Requirements

Attendance at one of these VMware vSphere 4 courses: Install, Configure, Manage. Fast Track. What’s New or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience

Objectives

  1. List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.0
  2. Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0
  3. Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile as part of Auto Deploy
  4. Use Auto Deploy to Install a stateless ESXi host
  5. Manage a version 8 virtual machine with the next-generation Web-based VMware vSphere Client
  6. List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
  7. Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS5 datastore
  8. Understand and configure policy-driven storage management
  9. Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
  10. Configure a VMware High Availability cluster based on the new Fault Domain Manager agents
  11. Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Program

Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Other vSphere 5 learning resources
Introduction to VMware vSphere 5.0
- Key enhancements in ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere Upgrade Manager
- Upgrade vSphere components from vSphere 4.x to vSphere5.0, including vCenter Server, Update Manager, and ESXi
Virtual Machine Management
- Describe new virtual machine version 8 hardware features
- Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation
- Describe the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Upgrade a virtual machine to version 8 hardware
- Install, register, and use the Web-based vSphere Client
Network Management
- Describe the ESXi firewall
- Describe new features of vNetwork distributed switches including NetFlow, port mirroring, and Link Layer DiscoveryProtocol
- Describe enhancements to network I/O control, including 802.1ppriority tagging, user-defined virtual machine resource pools,and the host-based replication traffic pool
- Configure the ESXi firewall
- Configure and test port mirroring
Storage Management
- Describe new storage features, including VMFS5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, policy-driven storagemanagement and vStorage API for Storage Awareness, solidstatedisk support, and VMware vSphere vStorage Appliance
- Describe enhanced features, including snapshot support for VMware vSphere Storage vMotion, increased storageperformance, and new primitives in the vStorage API for ArrayIntegration
- Upgrade VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Create a storage policy
Scalability
- Scaling enhancements to resource pools and VMware vSphere vMotion
- Describe Storage DRS operation
- Create a datastore cluster for Storage DRS
- Configure Storage DRS
High Availability
- Describe enhancements to the VMware Fault Tolerance and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility features
- Describe the operation of VMware HA using the new Fault Domain Manager agents
- Create a VMware HA cluster
New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives
- Configure the Linux-based vCenter Server Appliance
- Use Image Builder to create an installation image profile
- Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host