VMware VSphere 5.1 What's New? | VMware VSphere 5.1 What's New? Training

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.1. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5.1 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.1.

Who is this course for?

• System administrators
• IT managers
• System architects
• People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments

Pre-requisites

Previous attendance of one of the following VMware vSphere 4 courses:

• Install, Configure, Manage
• Fast Track
• What's New

or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functions and features in vSphere 5.1 and be able to do the following:

• List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.1
• Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1
• Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client to manage virtual machines
• List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
• Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere® VMFS-5 datastore
• Understand and configure policy-driven storage
• Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
• Live migration of a virtual machine without shared storage
• Secure the virtual machines using VMware® vShield Endpoint™ (now included in base vSphere product)
• Backup and recover a vSphere environment using vSphere Data Protection
• Replicate vSphere for SRM deployments using vSphere Replication
• Use new displays to monitor VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster activity
• Use the Linux-based VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
• Use Auto Deploy to install a stateless or stateful ESXi host
• Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile

Course Modules

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Other vSphere 5 learning resources

Introduction to VMware vSphere 5.1

• Key enhancements in ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere® Update Manager™
• Upgrade vSphere components from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1, including vCenter Server, Update Manager, and ESXi

Virtual Machine Management

• Describe new virtual machine version 9 hardware features
• Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation
• Describe the vCenter Solutions Manager
• Upgrade a virtual machine to version 9 hardware
• Install, register, and use the vSphere Web Client

Network Management

• Describe the ESXi firewall
• Describe new features of vNetwork distributed switches including NetFlow, port mirroring, Link Aggregation (LACP), Link Layer Discover Protocol (LLDP), and SR-IOV
• Describe enhancements to network I/O control, including 802.1p priority tagging and user-defined virtual machine resource pools
• Configure the ESXi firewall
• Configure and test port mirroring

Storage Management

• Describe new storage features, including VMFS-5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, policy-driven storage vStorage API for Storage Awareness, and VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance
• Describe enhanced features, including snapshot support for VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®, solid-state disk support, and new primitives in the vStorage API for Array Integration
• Upgrade VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
• Create user-defined storage capabilities and virtual machine storage profiles

Scalability and Security

• Describe scaling enhancements to resource pools and VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ operation
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure Storage DRS
• Configure vShield Endpoint

High Availability

• Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility features
• vMotion a virtual machine without shared storage.
• Explain the new master-slave architecture of vSphere HA
• View the new informational displays to monitor vSphere HA cluster activity
• Replicate vSphere using vSphere Replication.
• Backup and recover virtual machines using VMware vSphere® Data Protection

New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives

• Configure and use the Linux-based VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
• Use Image Builder to create an installation image profile
• Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host
• Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateful ESXi host.

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