Description

System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build scalability into their existing VMware vSphere deployments.

Objectives

• 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

Prerequisites

Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course, or have equivalent experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter products.

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.

• 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