Overview of Infrastructures and Virtual Machines
Overview of VMWare vSphere
Exploring the Components of vSphere

Concept of bare-metal hypervisor
ESX and ESXi architecture
Deployment and manual configuration of ESX / ESXi
Practical workshop: setting up VMware ESXi 4.1, discovering the interface

Installing vCenter and Its Components
Setting Up the vSphere Client
Exploring Inventory Items Hands-On
Workshop: Installing VMware vCenter Server

Network: vNetwork Standard Switches, network connections, port grouping
Storage at ESX / ESXi (support for iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel)
Datastores in vSphere (datastores)
Practical workshop: configuration of datastores for ESXi and network

Deployment of virtual machines
Management of hard disks of virtual machines (thin provisioning, snapshots)
Installation of virtual machine templates
Cloning of virtual machines
Conversion of physical or virtual machines to vCenter: VMware Converter
Modification and supervision of virtual machines
Migration hot storage of virtual machines thanks to Storage vMotion
Practical workshop: application of all possible operations on virtual machines

Allocation of resources to virtual machines: CPU, RAM, inputs / outputs
Optimize the use of RAM and CPU thanks to the VMKernel
Understand performance reports, vCenter Server graphs and alarms
Practical workshop: handling a pool of resource

Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories using vCenter Server Linked Mode
Use of host profiles to ensure consistency in the configuration of ESX / ESXi
Creation and configuration of distributed switches (vNetwork Distributed Switches / vDS)
Configuration of network connections and port groups
Switching of virtual machines between several hosts thanks to vMotion
Dynamic optimization of cluster resources thanks to VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS)
Rationalization of power consumption: VMWare Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Practical workshop: setting up a second ESXi hypervisor to deploy a cluster, migration of standard switches (vSS) to distributed switches (vDS), hot failovers with vMotion, deployment of DRS.

High availability challenges
Deploy a high availability cluster on vCenter Server (VMware HA)
Creation of high fault tolerance virtual machines: VMware Fault Tolerance
Practical workshop: setting up a high availability, high fault tolerance virtual machine

Roles and Permissions in vCenter Server
Managing Users
Managing Updates for Hosts and Virtual Machines Using vCenter Update Manager Hands-on Lab
: Creating Non-Administrator Users, Setting Up a Policy to Monitor Machine Versions Windows virtual machines in the vCenter cluster.