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This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 4 and ESX™/ESXi 4 as well as how to upgrade to VMware vSphere 4.

Highlights

• Upgrading VMware deployments from VMware Infrastructure 3 to vSphere 4
• Deploying distributed virtual switches to simplify data center-wide network management
• Using VMDirectPath to assign a PCI adapter directly to a virtual machine
• Migrating virtual machines' storage while they are live with Storage vMotion
• Growing virtual disks and VMFS volumes while they are live
• Employing VMware's new Pluggable Storage Architecture
• Ensuring application availability with VMware Fault Tolerance
• Manage more than one vCenter Server from the same client
• Use the new host profiles feature to keep hosts uniformly configured
• Save energy with VMware Distributed Power Management
• Save disk space with thin provisioning
• Administer virtual appliances consisting of more than one virtual machine

Course Outline

1. Introducing vSphere 4

• vSphere 4 enhancements by component
• Upgrade tools and strategies

2. Infrastructure Administration

• New features that support better infrastructure monitoring and reduce the time it takes to provision ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines

3. Networking

• Networking enhancements that simplify configuration, extend support, and improve performance

4. Storage

• New storage features that reduce storage costs, streamline management, and optimize performance

5. Resource Management

• vMotion compatibility enhancements
• New VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler monitoring and management tools
• Extended VMware DPM support

6. Business Continuity

• VMware High Availability enhancements
• VMware Fault Tolerance and vStorage APIs for data recovery

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