VMware: Datacenter Virtualization with vSphere 5 - Part 1

Course details

One of the biggest developments in IT infrastructure management is the emergence of server virtualization. Virtualization is well suited for most business applications and is widely in use for all but the most demanding workloads. Virtualization brings many economic advantages. It allows an organization to run multiple operating systems, called virtual machines, simultaneously on a single physical machine. The ability to consolidate multiple machines allows the IT department to reduce its hardware and software costs, as well as significantly reducing its operational costs. Virtualization isn't limited to simply creating virtual machines. Other infrastructure components, such as networking and storage, can also be virtualized, hiding the complexities of the underlying networking and storage components from the virtual machines. Once virtualized, the physical resources such as processor power, network switches and SAN resources can be aggregated and combined together for use by virtual machines, resulting in better utilization of physical resources, load balancing, and fault tolerance/redundancy. vSphere 5 is a virtualization software suite that can create virtual counterparts which correspond to, or replace, the physical components of a datacenter.

Includes 13 Chapters:

• VMware vSphere 5 – Part 1: vCenter Server Inventory
• Introduction to Virtualization
• vCenter Server Installation
• vSphere Client and vCenter Server Configuration
• ESXi Installation and Configuration
• vCenter Server Administration
• vCenter Server Management
• Creating Virtual Machines
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Machines
• An Overview of Virtual Network Creation
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Introduction to vSphere Storage Concepts
• Storage Configuration and Management