• Saving disk space by thin-provisioning virtual machines
• Using Host Profiles to keep ESX/ESXi hosts uniformly configured and manage configuration compliance
• Configuring VMware DRS clusters with non-default options
• Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management
• Managing more than one vCenter Server from the same vSphere Client with VMware vCenter Linked Mode

Module 1: Course Introduction
Module 2: Thin Provisioning
• Overview of vSphere features for adding ability to scale VMFS storage by more efficiently allocating space to virtual disk files
• Monitor and manage thin-provisioned VMFS datastores and virtual disk storage allocation and usage
Module 3: Host Profiles
• Create, manage and apply vSphere Host Profiles to ESX/ESXi hosts
• Use Host Profiles to maintain ESX/ESXi host compliance
Module 4: VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Clusters
• Use VMware DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) non-default configuration options
• Configure DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for cluster scalability
• Configure VMware DPM to provide efficient power management for DRS-enabled clusters
Module 5: VMware vCenter Linked Mode
• Use VMware vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• VMware vCenter Linked Mode architecture and requirements
• Configure vCenter Linked Mode groups
Module 6: VMware ESX Scripted Installation
• Use ESX scripted installation to automate deployment of ESX/ESXi hosts
• Create and manage ESX installation scripts
• ESX/ESXi host script commands
 

• Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course, or have equivalent experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter products.