This fast-paced, extended-hour training course includes the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage and VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI courses. This hands-on course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere™ using the VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere PowerCLI. vSphere PowerCLI automation can reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability.

The course is based on VMware ESX™/ESXi 4.1 and VMware vCenter™ Server 4.1 and includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Professional 4 examination.

Students who complete this course should be prepared for any of several additional vSphere courses. Please contact us for more details.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of vSphere 4 and vSphere PowerCLI and be able to do the following:

• Install and manually configure and manage ESX/ESXi or vCenter Server components
• Manually deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
• Automate ESX/ESXi, virtual machine, and cluster configuration 
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESX/ESXi patches
• Automate reporting of ESX/ESXi and virtual machine properties

Target Audience

System administrators, Systems engineers, IT managers, Operators responsible for VMware ESX™, ESXi, and VMware vCenter™ Server.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
• Scripting experience in Windows PowerShell, VBScript, Perl, UNIX, or other languages featuring variables and control structures