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Course Introduction Module 1

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Importance

This course will equip administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a VMware vSphere® environment. This course focuses on the installation and configuration of VMware ESXi™ hosts and VMware vCenter Server™. This course also focuses on the management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Server. This course will help prepare IT professionals to achieve the status of VMware® Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5).

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Learner Objectives

After this course, you should be able to do the following: Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server (Windows-based) or vCenter

Server appliance Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi host

networking and storage Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines Manage user access to virtual datacenter objects Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage and to

increase scalability Use vCenter Server to manage data protection and high

availability Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi host

patches

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You Are Here

Course Introduction

Introduction to Virtualization

Virtual Machines

VMware vCenter Server

Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

Configure and Manage Virtual Storage

Managing Virtual Machines

Data Protection

Access & Authentication Control

Resource Management and Monitoring

High Availability

Scalability

Patch Management

Installing vSphere Components

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Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this course:

Monospace Filenames, folder names, path names, command names: the bin directory

Monospace bold What the user types: Type ipconfig and press Enter.

Boldface Graphical user interface items: the Configuration tab

Italic Book titles and emphasis: vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide

<filename> Placeholders: <ESXi_host_name>

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What Is VMware vSphere?

An infrastructure virtualization suite that does the following: Provides virtualization,

management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities Aggregates physical

hardware resources and provides virtual resources to the datacenter

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter Suite

App App App App App App App App

Existing Applications Future Applications

Application Services

Infrastructure Services

VMware vSphere vMotion® vSphere Storage vMotion vSphere HA Fault Tolerance Data Recovery

VMware vShield Zones VMware VMsafe®

DRS Hot Add

VMware ESXi™ DRS and VMware DPM Memory Overcommit

VMFS Thin Provisioning Storage I/O Control

Distributed Switch Network I/O Control

Private Cloud Resource Pools Public Cloud

Availability Scalability

Storage Network

Security

Compute

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VCP on vSphere 5 Certification

The VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Program For technical individuals who want to demonstrate their vSphere expertise and

advance their career

http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification/

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VMware Online Resources

VMware Communities: http://communities.vmware.com Start a discussion, and access communities and user groups.

VMware Support: http://www.vmware.com/support Access the knowledge base, documentation, technical papers, and

compatibility guides.

VMware Education: http://www.vmware.com/education Access the course catalog and worldwide course schedule. Access information about advanced courses to continue on your

virtualization training path.

For easy access to online resources, install the VMware toolbar.

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vSphere Production Documentation

For vSphere product documentation, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

See the current vSphere manuals at this Web site for information about configuration maximums and installation requirements.

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Key Points

This course teaches you how to install, manage, and configure your vSphere environment. This course helps prepare you to achieve the status of VMware

Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5).