Advanced Network Technologies

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware® vSphere™. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Upon completing this course, you can take the examination to qualify as a VMware Certified Professional.

At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Install and configure VMware ESX™/ESXi, vCenter™ Server, and the vSphere Management Assistant
- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot ESX/ESXi networking and storage
- Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
- Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Implement business continuity solutions
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment

- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization- Discuss virtualization and vSphere components
- Module 3: Configuring VMware ESX/ESXi- Configure ESX/ESXi settings and view system logs
- Module 4: Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server- Install and configure vCenter Server and vSphere Management Assistant
- Manage vCenter Server inventory hierarchies
- Module 5: Networking- Configure and troubleshoot vNetwork components
- Module 6: Storage- Review storage management technologies
- Analyze and troubleshoot storage-related issues
- Module 7: Virtual Machines- Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCenter Converter, and Guided Consolidation
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Module 8: Access Control- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Module 9: Resource Monitoring- Assess workloads and monitor resources through the GUI interfaces and CLI
- Module 10: Scalability- Scale resource management
- Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
- Perform VMware VMotion™ migrations
- Configure clusters for VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware Distributed Power Management
- Module 11: High Availability and Data Protection
- Review business continuity products and features
- Follow best practices to configure VMware High Availability clusters and VMware Fault Tolerance
- Install and configure VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Deploy VMware Data Recovery to back up virtual machines
- Module 12: Configuration Management- Manage change in the vSphere environment with Host Profiles and VMware vCenter Update Manager
- Module 13: Installing ESX- Perform manual (ESX/ESXi) and scripted (ESX) installations