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VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V4] - Class Room |
VMware
vSphere: Fast Track [V4] in San Jose, CA
- 5 Days |
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Our Price: $4,695.00 |
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VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V4] - Live Online Instructor
Led |
VMware
vSphere: Fast Track [V4] Live Online - August 2-6
- 5 Days |
#VPND-O-VSFT
Our Price: $4,695.00 |
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VMware
vSphere: Fast Track [V4] Live Online - August 23-27
- 5 Days |
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Overview
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on
installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMwareŽ
vSphere™. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere
4: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks
and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable
virtual infrastructure. Upon completing this course, you
can take the examination to qualify as a VMware Certified
Professional.
Who Should Attend
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills
with minimal time away from the office.
- Install and configure VMware ESX™/ESXi, vCenter™
Server, and the vSphere Management Assistant
- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot ESX/ESXi networking
and storage
- Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and
monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
- Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Implement business continuity solutions
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization
- Discuss virtualization and vSphere components
- Module 3: Configuring VMware ESX/ESXi
- Configure ESX/ESXi settings and view system
logs
- Module 4: Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server
- Install and configure vCenter Server and vSphere
Management Assistant
- Manage vCenter Server inventory hierarchies
- Module 5: Networking
- Configure and troubleshoot vNetwork components
- Module 6: Storage
- Review storage management technologies
- Analyze and troubleshoot storage-related issues
- Module 7: Virtual Machines
- Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware
vCenter Converter, and Guided Consolidation
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Module 8: Access Control
- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Module 9: Resource Monitoring
- Assess workloads and monitor resources through
the GUI interfaces and CLI
- Module 10: Scalability
- Scale resource management
- Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
- Perform VMware VMotion™ migrations
- Configure clusters for VMware Distributed Resource
Scheduler and VMware Distributed Power Management
- Module 11: High Availability and Data Protection
- Review business continuity products and features
- Follow best practices to configure VMware High
Availability clusters and VMware Fault Tolerance
- Install and configure VMware vCenter Server
Heartbeat
- Deploy VMware Data Recovery to back up virtual
machines
- Module 12: Configuration Management
- Manage change in the vSphere environment with
Host Profiles and VMware vCenter Update Manager
- Module 13: Installing ESX
- Perform manual (ESX/ESXi) and scripted (ESX)
installations
Prerequisite
- Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity
training experience
- Comfort with system administration using command-line
interfaces
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VMware vSphere: Manage Availability [V4] - Class
Room |
VMware
vSphere: Manage Availability [V4] in San Jose, CA
- 1 Day |
#VPND-VSMA
Our Price: $795.00 |
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VMware vSphere: Manage Availability [V4] - Live Online Instructor
Led |
VMware
vSphere: Manage Availability [V4] Live Online
- 1 Day |
#VPND-O-VSMA
Our Price: $795.00 |
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Overview
This hands-on training course equips system
administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to achieve competence in building and running a highly
available VMwareŽ vSphere™ 4 virtual infrastructure.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions
architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to ensure the availability of their existing vSphere
deployments.
Course Objective
- List the components of business continuity
- Describe Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 cluster
configurations
- Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
using nondefault options
- Deploy fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware
Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Deploy VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Business Continuity
- Overview of vSphere features for high
availability, fault tolerance, data protection, and
disaster recovery
- Module 3: Virtual Machine Clustering
- vSphere general requirements for Microsoft
failover clusters
- Overview of the supported Microsoft failover
cluster configurations
- Module 4: VMware High Availability Clusters
- VMware HA advanced parameters affecting slot
size
- Deploying different admission control policies
- Configuring redundant heartbeat networks and
isolation test addresses
- Module 5: VMware Fault Tolerance
- Overview of FT prerequisites and FT operation
- FT best practices
- Configuring, monitoring, and testing a
fault-tolerant virtual machine
- Module 6: VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Overview of vCenter Server Heartbeat operation
- Installing and configuring vCenter Server
Heartbeat
- Failover and switchover with vCenter Server
Heartbeat
- Monitoring vCenter Server Heartbeat
Prerequisite
- Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install,
Configure, Manage course or the VMware vSphere 4:
What’s New course, or have prior experience using
VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter products.
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VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability [V4] - Class
Room |
VMware
vSphere: Manage Scalability [V4] in San Jose, CA
- 1 Day |
#VPND-VSMS
Our Price: $795.00 |
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Unavailable
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VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability [V4] - Live Online Instructor
Led |
VMware
vSphere: Manage Scalability [V4] Live Online
June 17
- 1 Day |
#VPND-O-VSMS
Our Price: $795.00 |
Currently Unavailable
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Overview
This hands-on training course equips system
administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to achieve competence in building and running a scalable
VMwareŽ vSphere™ 4 virtual infrastructure.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions
architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to build scalability into their existing VMware vSphere
deployments.
Course Objective
- Saving disk space by thin-provisioning virtual
machines
- Using Host Profiles to keep ESX/ESXi hosts uniformly
configured and manage configuration compliance
- Configuring VMware DRS clusters with non-default
options
- Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management
- Managing more than one vCenter Server from the same
vSphere Client with VMware vCenter Linked Mode
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Thin Provisioning
- Overview of vSphere features for adding ability to
scale VMFS storage by more efficiently allocating space
to virtual disk files
- Monitor and manage thin-provisioned VMFS datastores
and virtual disk storage allocation and usage
- Module 3: Host Profiles
- Create, manage and apply vSphere Host Profiles to
ESX/ESXi hosts
- Use Host Profiles to maintain ESX/ESXi host
compliance
- Module 4: VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
Clusters
- Use VMware DRS and VMware Distributed Power
Management (DPM) non-default configuration options
- Configure DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for
cluster scalability
- Configure VMware DPM to provide efficient power
management for DRS-enabled clusters
- Module 5: VMware vCenter Linked Mode
- Use VMware vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple
vCenter Server inventories
- VMware vCenter Linked Mode architecture and
requirements
- Configure vCenter Linked Mode groups
- Module 6: VMware ESX Scripted Installation
- Use ESX scripted installation to automate deployment
of ESX/ESXi hosts
- Create and manage ESX installation scripts
- ESX/ESXi host script commands
Prerequisite
- Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install,
Configure, Manage course, or have equivalent
experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter
products.
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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4] - Class Room |
VMware
vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4] in San Jose, CA
- 4 Days |
#VPND-VSAT
Our Price: $2,995.00 |
Currently Unavailable
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VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4] - Live Online Instructor
Led |
VMware
vSphere: Troubleshooting [V4] Live Online
- 4 Days |
#VPND-O-VSAT
Our Price: $2,995.00 |
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Overview
This lab-intensive course focuses on providing system
administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and
abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the
VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course,
you will spend most of the time diagnosing and
rectifying configuration problems created on VMwareŽ ESX™/ESXi
hosts and VMware vCenter™ Server systems.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk
personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere
deployments.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods
- Install and use vMA
- Learn common VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface
commands and syntax
- Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
- Module 3: ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files
- View ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server log files
- Configure a centralized ESX/ESXi log host
- Module 4: Network Troubleshooting
- Identify and configure vNetwork components
- Configure and use a network traffic sniffer
- Module 5: Management Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot vSphere management components
- Module 6: Storage Troubleshooting
- View, configure, and diagnose storage access
problems
- Configure iSCSI authentication and digests
- Module 7: VMotion Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot VMotion and Storage VMotion errors
- Module 8: VMware HA Cluster Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot errors with slot calculations,
admission control, and host monitoring
- Module 9: DRS Cluster Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot errors with shares, pools, and limits
- Module 10: Virtual Machine Troubleshooting
- Review power-on requirements
- Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures
- Module 11: Graduation Lab
- Complete a final multihour, multiproblem
troubleshooting exercise
This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the
completion of one of the following:
- Completion of the following three courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Manage Availability
- VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability
- Completion of vSphere: Fast Track.
- Equivalent knowledge and administration
experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server
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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] -
Class Room |
VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] in San
Jose, CA
August 23-27
- 5 Days |
#VPND-VSICM
Our Price: $3,495.00 |
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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] -
Live Online Instructor Led |
VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Live Online
August 2-5
- 4 Days |
#VPND-O-VSICM
Our Price: $2,995.00 |
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VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Live Online
August 9-12
- 4 Days |
#VPND-O-VSICM
Our Price: $2,995.00 |
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VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Live Online
August 16-19
- 4 Days |
#VPND-O-VSICM
Our Price: $2,995.00 |
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VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Live Online
August 23-27
- 5 Days |
#VPND-O-VSICM
Our Price: $3,495.00 |
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VMware
vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Live Online
August 30 - September 3
- 5 Days |
#VPND-O-VSICM
Our Price: $3,495.00 |
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Overview
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration,
and management of VMwareŽ vSphere™, which consists of VMware
ESXi/ESX™ and VMware vCenter™ Server. Upon completion of this
course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified
Professional. The course is based on ESXi 4.0, ESX 4.0, and
vCenter Server 4.0.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several
more-advanced vSphere courses.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible
for ESXi, ESX, and/or vCenter Server.
Course Objective
- Install and configure ESX
- Install and configure vCenter Server
- Configure and manage ESX networking and storage using
vCenter Server
- Deploy and manage virtual machines
- Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
- Increase scalability using vCenter Server
- Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server
- Apply patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager
- Manage higher availability and data protection using
vCenter Server
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization
- Discussion of virtualization and vSphere components
- Module 3: Configuring ESXi/ESX
- Configuration of ESXi and ESX
- Module 4: Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server
- Install and configure vCenter Server, and use the
VMware vSphere Client to manage vCenter Server inventory
hierarchies
- Module 5: Networking
- Configuration of vNetwork standard and distributed
switches, network connections, and port groups
- Module 6: Storage
- Storage management technologies
- Module 7: Virtual Machines
- Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware
vCenter Converter, Guided Consolidation
- Modifying, managing, and migrating virtual machines
- Module 8: Access Control
- Controlling user access through roles and permissions
- Module 9: Resource Monitoring
- Workload assessment, monitoring using vCenter Server
- Module 10: Scalability
- VMware VMotion™ migrations
- Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource
Scheduler cluster
- Module 11: High Availability and Data Protection
- Setup of a VMware High Availability cluster
- Backup and recovery of virtual machines using VMware
Data Recovery
- Module 12: Configuration Management
- Patching using vCenter Update Manager
- Module 13: Installing ESX
Prerequisite
- System administration experience on Microsoft Windows
or Linux operating systems.
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VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage -
Class Room |
VMware
View: Install, Configure, Manage in San
Jose, CA
July 27-29
- 3 Days |
#VPND-VVICM
Our Price: $2,245.00 |
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VMware
View: Install, Configure, Manage in San
Jose, CA
August 17-19
- 3 Days |
#VPND-VVICM
Our Price: $2,245.00 |
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VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage -
Live Online Instructor Led |
VMware
View: Install, Configure, Manage Live Online
July 27-29
- 3 Days |
#VPND-O-VVICM
Our Price: $2,245.00 |
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VMware
View: Install, Configure, Manage Live Online
August 17-19
- 3 Days |
#VPND-O-VVICM
Our Price: $2,245.00 |
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Overview
This hands-on training course builds your skills in the
VMware View suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware
View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™.
Who Should Attend
System administrators and system integrators experienced
with VMware Infrastructure 3 who are responsible for their
organization’s deployment of VMware technology for virtual
desktop infrastructure.
Course Objective
- At the end of the course, you should understand the
features and operation of VMware View and be able to:
- Install and configure the VMware View components
- Create persistent and nonpersistent desktop pools
- Configure virtual desktops for printing, USB
redirection, and multimedia redirection
- Configure authentication using devices such as smart
cards or cryptographic authentication fobs
- Use VMware View Composer to deploy and manage linked
clone virtual desktops
- Package applications using VMware ThinApp for a
VMware virtual desktop infrastructure
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to VMware View
- VMware View features and components
- Module 3: VMware View Connection Server
- Installation and configuration
- View Administrator
- Module 4: VMware View Virtual Desktops
- VMware View Agent
- USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- Module 5: VMware View Client Options
- VMware View Client
- VMware View Portal
- Thin clients and Offline Desktop
- Module 6: View Administrator
- Configuring automated desktop pools
- Persistent and nonpersistent pools
- Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
- VMware View Composer configuration
- Deploying and modifying linked clone desktops
- Module 8: Unified Access
- Accessing physical systems, blade PCs, Terminal
Services
- Module 9: Virtual Printing
- Seamless printing from desktop to client
printers
- Module 10: Managing View Security
- Network configuration and authentication options
- Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability
- Performance enhancements and load balancing
- Module 12: VMware ThinApp
- Deploying applications using VMware ThinApp
Prerequisite
- Required
- Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory
(AD) administration
- Experience with VMware Infrastructure 3
- Recommended
- Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3:
Install and Configure.
- Basic Skills Self-Assessment
- You must already have these skills:
- Create a template in VMware vCenter Server and
deploy a virtual machine from it.
- Modify a template customization file.
- Open a virtual machine console on vCenter Server
and access the guest operating system.
- Modify a virtual machine’s hardware (add disk,
add NIC).
- Configure Windows AD roaming profiles.
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