VMware vSphere 5: What´s New (VIWN)

System administrators, IT managers, System architects , People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments

This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (HH633S, HL235S)
• Or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter™ Server 5.0 and VMware® ESXi™ 5.0. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0. vSphere 5.0 is the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs.

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functions and features in vSphere 5.0 and be able to do the following:

• Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0
• Use Auto Deploy to Install a stateless ESXi host
• List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
• Understand and configure policy-driven storage management
• Configure a VMware High Availability cluster based on the new Fault Domain Manager agents
• List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.0
• Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile as part of Auto Deploy
• Manage a version 8 virtual machine with the next-generation Web-based VMware vSphere Client
• Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS5 datastore
• Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
• Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance