Overview

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter™ Server 5.0 and VMware® ESXi™ 5.0. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0. vSphere 5.0 is the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor.

Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere 5.0 courses. See http://www.vmware.com/education for advanced course options.

Objectives

•  List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.0

•  Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0

•  Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile as part of Auto Deploy

•  Use Auto Deploy to Install a stateless ESXi host

•  Manage a version 8 virtual machine with the next-generation Web-based VMware vSphere Client

•  List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches

•  Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS5 datastore

•  Understand and configure policy-driven storage management

•  Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS

•  Configure a VMware High Availability cluster based on the new Fault Domain Manager agents

•  Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

Who should attend?

•  System administrators

•  IT managers

•  System architects

•  People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments.

Prerequisites

Attendance at one of these VMware vSphere 4 courses:

•  Install, Configure, Manage

•  Fast Track

•  What’s New

Or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience.

Contact us for information about the price.