VMWARE vSphere 4.0 Ultimate Bootcamp (ACBE-CER-VMWARE)

System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESX 4 Server and/or VirtualCenter. The Ultimate Bootcamp is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience.

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.

Upon the completion of the Ultimate Bootcamp, students will learn:

• About all of the new and exciting features of VMware® vSphere 4.0
• Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
• How to install, configure, and support ESX Server 4 and vCenter 4
• How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
• How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing.
• P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
• Server Consolidation procedures and reasoning
• Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware®, PlateSpin®, Vizioncore™, Veeam, and more
• VMotion™, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering – DRS/HA, etc.
• Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
• How to perform backups in the ESX environment – Service Console and Virtual Machines – VCB and Data Recovery
• How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX & ESXi Servers - ESX commands
• Configure and optimize storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning

ACBE-CER-VMWARE