Course Introduction

Module 1

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

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Importance

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

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

Course Introduction

Data Protection

Introduction to Virtualization

Access and Authentication Control

Creating Virtual Machines

Resource Management and Monitoring

VMware vCenter Server

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

Host Scalability

Configuring and Managing vSphere Storage

Patch Management

Virtual Machine Management

Installing VMware vSphere Components

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Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this course:

Monospace

Filenames, folder names, path

names, command names:
the bin directory

Monospace bold

What the user types:

Type ipconfig and press Enter.

Boldface

Graphical user interface items:

the Configuration tab

Italic

Book titles and emphasis:

vSphere Datacenter
Administration Guide

<filename>

Placeholders:
<ESXi_host_name>

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What Is vSphere Enterprise?

existing applications

VMware vSphere Enterprise

Edition is an infrastructure
virtualization suite that does
the following:

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VMware vSphere Enterprise

availability

Application

- 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

Services

compute

Infrastructure
Services

- VMware ESXi
- DRS and vSphere DPM
- Memory overcommit
- Hardware version 9
- 64-way SMP
- 1TB virtual machines

private cloud resource pools

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VMware vCenter Suite

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

VM

future applications

security

- VMware
vShield Zones
- VMware VMsafe
- VMware vShield
Endpoint

scalability

- DRS
- Hot add

storage

network

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

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

public cloud

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VMware Certification
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

Expert

VCAP-DCA
VCAP-DCD

Advanced
Professional

VCP

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

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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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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