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Course Introduction

Module 1

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – Revision A

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).

Importance

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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.

Learner Objectives

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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

You Are Here

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The following typographical conventions are used in this course:

Typographical Conventions

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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VMware vSphere Enterprise

VMware vSphere® Enterprise

Edition™ is an infrastructure

virtualization suite that does

the following:

Provides virtualization,

management, resource

optimization, application

availability, and operational

automation capabilities

Aggregates physical

hardware resources and

provides virtual resources

to the datacenter

What Is vSphere Enterprise?

VMware vCenter Suite

VM VM VM VM

existing applications

Application

Services

Infrastructure

Services

- 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

- VMware®

vShield™ Zones

- VMware® VMsafe®

- VMware® vShield

Endpoint™

- DRS

- Hot add

- VMware ESXi

- DRS and vSphere DPM

- Memory overcommit

- Hardware version 9

- 64-way SMP

- 1TB virtual machines

- VMFS

- Thin provisioning

- Storage I/O controls

- Storage DRS

- Profile driven

Storage

- Storage reclamation

- Enhanced

distributed switch

- Network I/O

controls

- SR-IOV support

private cloud resource pools public cloud

availability scalability

storage network

security

compute

VM VM VM VM

future applications

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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.

VMware Certification

Expert

Advanced Professional

Professional VCP

VCDX

VCAP-DCA VCAP-DCD

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

This course can be taken to

fulfill the course requirement

for VCP5.

VMware highly recommends

taking the vSphere Optimize

and Scale course.








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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.

VMware Online Resources

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For vSphere product documentation, go to: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html

vSphere Product Documentation

See the current vSphere manuals at this Web site for information

about configuration maximums and installation requirements.

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