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Price: VMware Partners Call for Pricing SKU: VPND-O-VMWNG (VMware Partners Only) Live Online Price: VMware Partners Call for Pricing SKU: VPND-O-VMWNG (VMware Partners Only)
Time: 2 Days |
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Overview
This hands-on training course explores new features in future versions of VMware® vCenter Server and ESX™/ESXi, as well as how to upgrade.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter.
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| Course Object |
- At the end of the course, you should possess knowledge and skills for the following:
- Upgrading VMware deployments
- Deploying distributed virtual switches to simplify datacenter-wide network management
- Using VMDirectPath to assign a PCI adapter directly to a virtual machine
- Migrating virtual machines’ storage while they are live with Storage vMotion
- Growing virtual disks and VMFS volumes while they are live
- Employing VMware’s new Pluggable Storage Architecture
- Ensuring application availability with VMware Fault Tolerance
- Manage more than one vCenter Server from the same client
- Use the new host profiles feature to keep hosts uniformly configured
- Save energy with VMware Distributed Power Management
- Save disk space with thin provisioning
- Administer virtual appliances consisting of more than one virtual machine
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Course Outline |
- Module 1: Introducing the Next Generation of VI
- Highlights Next Generation enhancements by component and reviews upgrade tools and strategies.
- Module 2: Infrastructure Administration
- Presents new features that support better infrastructure monitoring and reduce the time it takes to provision ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
- Module 3: Networking
- Discusses networking enhancements that simplify configuration, extend support, and improve performance.
- Module 4: Storage
- Introduces new storage features that reduce storage costs, streamline management, and optimize performance.
- Module 5: Resource Management
- Reviews vMotion™ compatibility enhancements, new VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler monitoring and management tools, and extended VMware DPM support.
- Module 6: Business Continuity
- Presents VMware High Availability enhancements and introduces VMware Fault Tolerance and vStorage APIs for data recovery.
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Prerequisite |
- Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure, or equivalent experience with VMware ESX and vCenter Server
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