VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.0] (3198)
In this hands-on course, you will explore the new features in VMware� vCenter™ Server 5.0 and VMware ESXi™ 5.0. You will learn to install VMware vSphere� and to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0, the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor. You will spend approximately 40% of class time completing nine hands-on labs.
Skills Gained
- Key enhancements in vSphere 5.0
- Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0
- Use Image Builder to modify and export an 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
- Key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
- Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS5 datastore
- Understand and configure policy-driven storage management
- Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
- Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster based on the new Fault Domain Manager agents
- Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Who Can Benefit
- System and network administrators
- Systems and network engineers
- IT managers
- System architects
- Those responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments
Prerequisites
Completion of one of the following VMware vSphere 4 courses, or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience:
Syllabus
1. 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 Manager, and ESXi
2. Virtual Machine Management
- New virtual machine version 8 hardware features
- Virtual machine snapshot consolidation
- vCenter Solutions Manager
- Upgrade a virtual machine to version 8 hardware
- Install, register, and use the web-based vSphere Client
3. Network Management
- ESXi firewall
- New features of vNetwork distributed switches, including NetFlow, port mirroring, and Link Layer Discovery Protocol
- 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
4. Storage Management
- New storage features, including VMFS5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, policy-driven storage management and vStorage API for Storage Awareness, solid state disk support, and VMware vSphere vStorage Appliance
- Enhanced features, including snapshot support for VMware vSphere Storage vMotion, increased storage performance, and new primitives in the vStorage API for Array Integration
- Upgrade VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Create a storage policy
5. Scalability
- Scaling enhancements to resource pools and VMware vSphere vMotion�
- Storage DRS operation
- Create a datastore cluster for Storage DRS
- Configure Storage DRS
6. High Availability
- Enhancements to the VMware Fault Tolerance and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility features
- Operation of VMware HA using the new Fault Domain Manager agents
- Create a VMware HA cluster
7. 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
