VMware vSphere: What's New [V4]
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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