Overview of Cloud and Server Virtualization
Overview of VMWare vSphere 5
Exploring the Components of vSphere 5
History and Changes with Version 4.1

Concept of bare-metal hypervisor
ESXi 5 architecture
Deployment and manual configuration of ESXi 5
Configuring storage spaces on ESXi
Practical workshop: setting up VMware ESXi 5, discovering the vSphere interface

Deployment of virtual machines
Deployment in the form of an appliance
Management of hard disks of virtual machines (thin provisioning, snapshots)
Cloning of virtual machines
Modification and supervision of virtual machines
Practical workshop: application of all possible operations on virtual machines

Allocation of resources to virtual machines: CPU, RAM, inputs / outputs
Optimizing the use of RAM and CPU thanks to the VMKernel
Practical workshop: handling a pool of resources

Installation of vCenter 5 and its components
Installation of the vSphere client 5
Discovery of inventory items
Presentation of vCenter Server Appliance vCSA
Installation of virtual machine templates
Cloning of virtual machines
Switching virtual machines between several hosts Using vMotion
Migrating Hot Virtual Machine Storage Using Storage vMotion Hands-On
Workshop: Installing VMware vCenter Server 5

Presentation of clusters
High availability features
Load
balancing Practical workshop: setting up a cluster, testing high availability