VMware vSphere 5.0 Ultimate Bootcamp
Chapter 1
Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2
Virtualization Overview and What’s New in vSphere 5
Chapter 3
Planning and Installing ESXi 5 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)
Planning ESXi 5 Server Deployment
Deployment Guidelines
ESXi 5 Image Builder
ESXi 5 Server Install (HOL)
Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
Troubleshooting ESXi 5 Server
Chapter 4
Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment
Overview of 3rd Party Tools
ESXi Management (vSphere Client, NEW V5 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)
Chapter 5
vCenter Server 5 and Licensing
Demystifying vSphere 5 Licensing
vCenter Server 5 Installation (HOL)
vCenter Server 5 Virtual Appliance
vCenter Server 5 Inventory (HOL)
Managing vCenter Server 5 (HOL)
vCenter Solutions Manager
Planning vCenter Server 5 Deployment
Troubleshooting vCenter Server 5 Deployment
Chapter 6
Configuring Networking
Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC (HOL)
Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting (NetFlow, Port Mirror, LLDP, 802.1p Tagging)
Chapter 7
Configuring Storage
Storage Concepts, Storage Awareness & Profile Driven Storage
iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
VMFS 5 Datastores and SSD (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)
Chapter 8
VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots
Create a VM (HOL)
Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones(HOL)
Virtual Appliances (HOL)
VMware vCenter Standalone Converter (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
Manage VMs (HOL)
Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown (HOL)
Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
vSphere 5 Web Client (HOL)
Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
Chapter 9
Security and Permissions
Controlling User Access and passwords (HOL)
ESXi 5 AD Integration (HOL)
Managing ESXi 5 Firewall (GUI & Command Line)(HOL)
VMSafe and vShield Zones
Chapter 10
Server and VM Monitoring
Configuring Alarms (HOL)
VM Optimization for vSphere 5 Licensing (HOL)
Optimizing Resources
Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
Using NetFlow Tool (HOL)
ESXi, vCenter Logs and syslog (HOL)
Chapter 11
Advanced ESXi and vCenter Management
Storage Views & Topology Maps
Storage VMotion and SvMotion Snapshots (HOL)
Configuring VMotion (HOL)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
Resource Pools and Monitoring (HOL)
Storage DRS (SDRS) (HOL)
Host Profiles (HOL)
VSphere 5 Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)
Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers
Chapter 12
Patching and Upgrading vCenter/ESX/ESXi
Patching ESXi 5 (HOL)
Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
Upgrades and Migrations (ESX to ESXi)
Upgrading from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x
Chapter 13
Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment
Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM5)
High Availability (HA) & Fault Domain Manager (FDM) (HOL)
VM Fault Tolerance
Microsoft Clustering
Backup Strategies
VMware Data Recovery (HOL)
Third Party Backups (HOL)