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VMware vSphere 5.5
Duration : 30 Days

Overview of VMware vSphere 5.0
Overview
Components
Pakaging and Versions
Cloud Computing

Installing VMware ESXi 5.0
Requirements
ESX server
Download
Installation
Initial Configuration
Installing vSphere Client

Using vSphere Client
Terminology
vSphere Client
VM Guest Remote Control
vSphere Client Hotkeys
Search Virtual Infrastructure
Sorting and Filtering
Exporting Data
Running Reports

Creating and Modifing Virtual Guest Machine
Three ways to Create VM
BIOS
Datastore Browser
Secure Copy Protocol
Using SSH
Creating a New VM

Installing and Configuring VMware Tools

Installing vCenter

Configuring Virtual Infrastructure
Planning
Adding Datacenters, Folders, and Hosts
Configuring vSphere Licensing
vCenter Server Settings and Plugins
System Logs, Sessions, and Status
Monitoring Host Health and Hardware Status

Using vSphere Web Client
Overview
Installing the Server for Web Client
Authorizing the Web Client Server
Using the vSphere 5 Web Client

Private VLANs - pVLANs
Networking Policies
Configuration

Moving Virtual Machines with vMotion
Requirements
vMotioning VMs

Moving Virtual Storage with svMotion
Requirement
svMotion and Thin Provisioning
Using svMotion
Migrating VMs with Snapshots

Performance Optimization with DRS
Introduction
Requirements
Creating DRS enables Cluster
DRS/HS Cluster Settings
Resource Pools

Implementing High Availability with VMware HA
VMHA Master/Slave
Requirement
Best Practice

VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
Introduction
Requirement
Constraints
Enabling VMware FT
Testing failover with a Virtual Machine

Tasks, Events, and Alarms
Understanding Tasks and Events

Virtual Storage and Terminologies
Virtual Disks and VMFS
Data Transfers
Storage Technologies
Storage Area Network
iSCSI Storage
Datastore
Storage Options
VMFS Specs

vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
Overview
Cluster Design Options
VSA SAN Maintenance Mode

Creating iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
Download
Installation
Configure
Connecting vSphere to the OpenFiler iSCSI SAN

Administering VMwarre ESXi Server Security
Basics
Default Roles
Adding, Modifying and Removing Users and Groups
Windows AD Users and Groups
Defining and Applying Roles and Permissions
vSheild
Securing Guest VMs

vSphere Virtual Networking
Vitual Networking
Network Adapters
Virtual Standard Switches (vSS)
vSS Functionality
Similarities between pSwitch and vSS
Differences between pSwitch and vSS
Types of Switches
Virtual Switch Ports
VLAN
MAC Address Changes

vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (dvswitch)
vSphere Distributed Switch
Upgrading vSphere 4 to vSphere 5
Steps
Update Manager Upgrade
ESXi Upgrade
VM Upgrade

vSphere CLI
Using CLI
Four CLI Options
Tech Support mode
esxcfg and esxcli
PowerCLI
Project Onyx
vCLI Basics
Installing and Using vMA

vSphere Auto Deploy
Components
First Boot Proces
Requirement
Installation and Configuration

Storage DRS
Introduction
SDRS Load Balancing

Policy-driven Storage

Network IO Control

Storage IO Control

ESXi Firewall

Data Protection