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

Bare-metal hypervisor concept
ESXi 5 architecture
Deployment and manual configuration of ESXi 5

Practical workshop: setting up VMware ESXi 5, discovering the interface

Installing vCenter 5 and Its Components
Setting Up the vSphere Client 5
Exploring Inventory Items
Introducing vCenter Server vCSA Appliance Hands-On

Workshop: Installing VMware vCenter Server 5

Network: vNetwork Standard Switches, network connections, port grouping
Storage at ESXi level (iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel support) Datastores
in vSphere (datastores)
Deploy and administer the VMware appliance Virtual Storage

Workshop: Configuring Datastores for ESXi and Network

Deployment of virtual machines
Deployment in the form of an appliance
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 monitoring of virtual machines
Migration of hot virtual machine storage thanks to Storage vMotion

Practical workshop: application of all possible operations on virtual machines

Allocation of resources to virtual machines: CPU, RAM, I / O
Optimize the use of RAM and CPU thanks to the VMKernel
Understand performance reports, vCenter Server graphs and alarms

Practical workshop: handling a resource pool

Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories using vCenter Server Linked Mode
Use of host profiles to ensure consistency in the configuration of ESXi
Creation and configuration of distributed switches (vNetwork Distributed Switches / vDS)
Configuration of network connections and port groupings
Switch virtual machines between multiple hosts using vMotion
Dynamic optimization of cluster resources using 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)
Creating 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 to Hosts and Virtual Machines Using vCenter Update Manager

Practical workshop: creation of non-administrator users, establishment of a policy to monitor the versions of Windows virtual machines in the vCenter cluster