VMware vSphere 4: Transition to ESXi

Kurssin tavoitteet

This hands-on training course covers the requirements and effects of transitioning your VMware vSphere™ environment to VMware® ESXi. It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions and successfully add ESXi to a deployed vSphere environment. This course is based on ESXi 4.0.

At the end of the course, you should be able to:
• Analyze ESXi and its benefits for your environment
• Identify ESXi installation and configuration procedures
• Use scripted installations for large-scale ESXi deployments
• Employ scripting interfaces to manage ESXi
• Identify risks when migrating to ESXi

Kurssin sisältö

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Working with VMware ESXi
• Identify differences between ESX and ESXi
• Recognize tasks and procedures when moving to ESXi

Module 3: Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi
• Analyze ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Install and configure ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Recognize the steps for upgrading to ESXi

Module 4: Performing Management Tasks
• Identify hardware monitoring techniques
• Discuss system management and backup methodology
• Distinguish the log files
• Recognize security methodologies
• Employ file management practices
• Perform basic troubleshooting with the direct console user interface

Module 5: Using Scripting Interfaces
• Identify the scripting interfaces for ESXi
• Discuss primary scripting interfaces
• Install VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Identify differences between commands used with ESX and those used with ESXi
• Recognize custom commands and how to substitute VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands or vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets for them

Module 6: Large-Scale Deployment of VMware ESXi
• Identify scripted installation programs for ESXi
• Analyze the commands to perform scripted installation
• Discuss best practices for large-scale deployment

Kohderyhmä

System administrators, systems engineers, technical support engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and supporting a vSphere installation.

Vaatimukset

Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware vSphere 4: What’s New course or have experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and VMware vCenter™ products

Toteutustapa

60% lecture, 40% hands-on lab

Kesto: 2 päivää

Hinta: 1495.0 €, alv 0%

Kurssitunnus: EDU-VS41TE-OE

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