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.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course you will gain an understating of the functions and features in vSphere 5.0 and be able to do the following:

• 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 and 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 data-store
• Understand and configure policy-driven storage management
• Create a data-store 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?

This course is ideal for System administrators, IT managers, system architects and anyone responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments.

It is highly recommended that delegates for this course have already completed the vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage, Fast Track or Toubleshooting course, or have equivalent experience with VMware ESX and vCenter Server.

Course Outline

• Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Other vSphere 5 learning resources
• Module 2: Introduction to VMware vSphere 5.0
  • Key enhancements in ESXi, vCenter Server and VMware vSphere Upgrade Manager
  • Upgrade vSphere components from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0, including vCenter Server, Update Manage and ESXi
• Module 3: Virtual Machine Management
  • Describe new virtual machine version 8 hardware features
  • Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation
  • Describe the vCenter Solutions Manager
  • Upgrade a virtual machine to version 8 hardware
  • Install, register and use the web-based vSphere Client
• Module 4: Network Management
  • Describe the ESXi firewall
  • Describe new features of vNetwork distributed switches including NetFlow, port monitoring and Link Layer Discovery Protocol
  • Describe enhancements to network I/O control, including 802.1p priority tagging, user-defined virtual machine resource pools and the host based replication traffic pool
  • Configure the ESXi firewall
  • Configure and test port mirroring
• Module 5: Storage Management
  • Describe new storage features, including VMFS5, Fiber Channel over Ethernet software adapters, policy driven storage management and vStorage API for Storage Awareness, solid state disk support and VMware vSphere vStorage Appliance
  • Describe enhanced features, including snapshot support for VMware vSphere Storage vMotion, increased storage performance and new primitives in the vStorage APO for Array Integration
  • Upgrade VMFS3 to VMFS5
  • Create a storage policy
• Module 6: Scalability
  • Scaling enhancements to resource pools and VMware vSphere vMotion
  • Describe Storage DRS operation
  • Create a data store cluster for Storage DRS
  • Configure Storage DRS
• Module 7: High Availability
  • Describe enhancements to the VMware Fault Tolerance and enhanced vMotion Compatibility features
  • Describe the operation of VMware HA using the new Fault Domain Manager agents
  • Create a VMware HA cluster
• Module 8: New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives
  • Configure the Linux based vCenter Server Appliance
  • Use Image Builder to create an installation image profile
  • Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host