vSphere 4 Fundamentals for View Administrators
Chapter 1 - Course Introduction and Methodology
Chapter 2 - Planning and Installing ESX
- Topic 1: Planning the ESX/ESXi deployment
- Topic 2: vSphere 4 Deployment Guidelines
- Topic 3: ESX Installation
- Topic 4: Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP
- LAB: Configure NTP
Chapter 3 - Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment
- Topic 1: ESX/ESXi Management
- Topic 2: ESX Configuration Commands
- LAB: Tools
Chapter 4 - Configuring Networking
- Topic 1: Creating & Modify Virtual Networks
- LAB: vSwitches
- Topic 2: Modify Virtual Switches
Chapter 5 - Configuring Storage
- Topic 1: Storage Concepts
- Topic 2: iSCSI Storage
- LAB: Configure iSCSI
- Topic 3: Fibre Channel Storage
- Topic 4: VMFS Datastores
- LAB: Create VMFS Datastore
- LAB: Extend a VMFS Datastore
- Topic 5: NAS Storage and NFS Datastores
- LAB: Create an NFS Datastore
- LAB: Create a VM for vCenter Server Install
Chapter 6 - vCenter Server and License Server
- Topic 1: Licensing
- Topic 2: vCenter Server Installation
- LAB: Configure a vCenter VM for Optimal Performance
- LAB: Install vCenter Server
- Topic 3: vCenter Server Inventory
- LAB: Add ESX Host to vCenter Server Inventory
- Topic 4: Managing vCenter Server
- Topic 5: Planning vCenter Server Deployment
Chapter 7 - VM Creation, Configuration, and Snapshots
- Topic 1: Create a VM
- LAB: Create a Virtual Machine
- Topic 2: Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones
- LAB: Templates
- Topic 3: Manage VMs
- Topic 4: Virtual Machine Snapshots
- LAB: Snapshots
Chapter 8 – Advance vSphere 4
- Topic 1: Configuring VMotion and SVMotion
- LAB: Using VMotion to Migrate VMs between ESX Hosts
- Topic 2: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- LAB: Create DRS Cluster
- Topic 3: Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers
- Topic 4: High Availability (HA)
- LAB: Configuring and Monitoring HA