Course details

This training course, for experienced VMware vSphere® personnel, teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware® ESXi™5.5 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5.

This course prepares the student for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam.

Aims & Objectives

  • Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
  • Manage changes to the vSphere environment
  • Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
  • Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
  • Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware
  • vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
  • Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts
  • Note: About one-third of the VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5] course content is repeated in this course. The scalability topics in VMware vSphere: Fast Track are repeated in this course

Content

  • Course Introduction
  • VMware Management Resources
  • Performance in a Virtualized Environment
  • Network Scalability
  • Network Optimization
  • Storage Scalability
  • Storage Optimization
  • CPU Optimization
  • Memory Optimization
  • Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization
  • Host and Management Scalability

Prerequisites

Completion of one of the following courses:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
  • VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.5]
  • VMware vSphere: Fast Track
  • Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended

Who should attend?

  • Experienced system administrators
  • Systems engineers
  • System integrators
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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