At the end of the course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
• Install ESXi Server according to best practices
• Upgrade and use Host Client to manage stand alone ESXi hosts
• Use vSwitch policies to improve network security
• Explain and select the optimal pNIC teaming strategy for network availability and performance
• Implement Jumbo Frames to improve network throughput and reduce protocol overhead
• Configure and manage local storage resources
• Create virtual and virtual to physical network configurations
• Define and use file share (NAS / NFS) datastores Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
• Install, configure and upgrade VMware Tools
• Install, configure and update the Platform Service Controller and vCenter Server Appliance
• Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
• Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
• Use Guest OS customization to rapidly configure new VMs according to requirements
• Configure and use hotplug hardware including hot-add vCPUs and Memory
• Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
• Understand the benefits and trade offs of network attached storage and Fibre, iSCSI SANs
• Configure and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
• Use Raw Device Maps to give VMs direct connectivity to SAN volumes
• Add and grow virtual disks including system disks and secondary volumes
• Use vCenter alarms to monitor ESXi, VM, storage and network health, performance, state
• Use Resource Pools to bulk delegate resource to meet Service Level Agreements
• Perform VM cold migrations, hot VMotion migrations and Storage VMotion
• Configure and manage server CPU and Memory capacity and maintain VM responsiveness with Distributed Resource Schedule load balanced clusters
• Deliver high VM service availability using VMware High Availability clusters
• Use HA to successfully minimize VM down time caused by ESXi host failures, storage network failures or SAN volume failures
• Use VMware Fault Tolerance to eliminate VM down time due to host, network or storage failures
• Implement a disaster recovery strategy using VMware Replication
• Use vSphere Replication to hot replicate and recover business critical Virtual Machines
• Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
• Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
• Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
• Build, configure, and use distributed virtual switches. Migrate hosts and networking to dvSwitches
• Troubleshoot common problems

This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:

• System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure
• Security specialists responsible for administering, managing, securing Virtual Infrastructure
• Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure
• Performance analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor Virtual Infrastructure
• Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability
• Storage administrators who work with Fibre / iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores
• Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.