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 This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs. 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 language is English. |