course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Understand how to use vSphere PowerCLI to perform the following tasks
  • Automate VMware ESX configuration
  • Automate the provisioning of virtual machines
  • Automate changes to virtual machine configuration
  • Automate cluster operations
  • Automate reporting

prerequisites

• System Administrator experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
• Attendance at either:
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Fast Track
  • Scripting experience in one of the following languages:
    • VBScript
    • Perl
    • UNIX shell scripts
    • Python
    • Other language with variables and control structures

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Use vSphere tools to monitor the performance of VMware ESX/ESXi hosts
• Diagnose performance problems relating to CPU, memory, network and storage on an ESX/ESXi host
• Apply guidelines for monitoring application performance
• Use the VMware vSphere Client and command-line utilities to diagnose and rectify ESX/ESXi, VMware vMotion, VMware Storage vMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler and virtual machine power-on problems
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
• Create and use a network packet capture utility to capture and display virtual switch network traffic

prerequisites

Completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VSICM)
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track (VSFT)
• VMWare vSphere: What’s New (VMWN)
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Identify design goals, requirements and constraints
• Identify useful information for making design decisions
• Recognise and analyse best practice recommendations
• Analyse alternative design choices
• Identify risks
• Work in a design team on a design project

prerequisites

Knowledge of vSphere 4 installation, upgrade, configuration and administration.

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Have an understanding of vSphere 4 and vSphere PowerCLI
• Install and manually configure and manage ESX/ESXi or vCenter Server components
• Manually deploy, manage and migrate virtual machines
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
• Automate ESX/ESXi, virtual machine and cluster configuration
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESX/ESXi patches
• Automate reporting of ESX/ESXi and virtual machine properties

prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
  Scripting experience in Windows PowerShell, VBScript, Perl, UNIX or other languages featuring variables and control structures.

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Install and configure ESXi
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deploy, manage and migrate virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

prerequisites

Delegates attending this course should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Identify vulnerabilities in the current design of a vSphere environment and recommend corrective actions
• Harden vSphere components as described in vSphere Hardening Guide
• Recommend configuration and change management policies, processes and system

prerequisites

Completion of one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere: What’s new

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Explain the performance impact of using different monitor modes
• Use vSphere tools to monitor the performance of ESX/ESXi hosts
• Troubleshoot performance problems relating to CPU, memory, network and storage on an ESX/ESXi host
• Discuss how to achieve an optimal virtual machine configuration
• Discuss guidelines for monitoring application performance

prerequisites

This is an advanced course.  Required prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• VMware vSphere: What’s new
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience with working at the command line is highly recommended

course objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Use the VMware vSphere Client and service console commands to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX
• Use the vSphere Client and the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) appliance to configure or diagnose and rectify problems on ESX and ESXi hosts
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
• Create and use a network sniffer to capture and display virtual switch network traffic
• Use the vSphere Client and command-line tools to troubleshoot VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler and virtual machine power-on problems

prerequisites

This is an advanced course.  Required prerequisites are:

• Completion of the following three courses
  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vSphere: Manage Availability
  • VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability
• Completion of VMware vSphere: Fast Track
• Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server