VMware VSphere: Advanced FastTrack

This fast-paced, extended-hour training course includes the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage and VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI courses. This hands-on course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere™ using the VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere PowerCLI. vSphere PowerCLI automation can reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability. The course is based on VMware ESX™/ESXi 4.1 and VMware vCenter™ Server 4.1 and includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Professional 4 examination. Students who complete this course should be prepared for any of several additional vSphere courses

Who is this course for?

• Solution architects
• System architects
• System administrators
• IT managers

Pre-Requisites

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

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of vSphere and vSphere PowerCLI and be able to do the following:

• 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

Course Modules

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vSphere PowerCLI

• Define the main vSphere PowerCLI object
• Define the main commandlets in vSphere PowerCLI
• Connect to a vSphere infrastructure
• Get help for commandlets

Automating ESX Host Configuration

• Automate configuration of virtual switches on ESXi hosts
• Automate configuration of datastores on ESXi hosts

Virtual Machine Provisioning, Configuration, and Protection

• Automate creation of virtual machines
• Change virtual machine settings programmatically
• Run vSphere PowerCLI scripts in virtual machines
• Automate virtual machine protection

Automating Cluster Operations

• Automate virtual machine storage migration
• Automate VMware vMotion™
• Create a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler/VMware High Availability cluster
• Automate cluster configuration
• Automate resource pool creation and configuration

Automating Reporting

• Automate reporting about virtual machines
• Automate reporting about ESXi hosts
• Automate reporting about clusters

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