Course details

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.1. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5.1 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.1. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere 5.1 courses.
Prerequisites:

Attendance at one of these VMware vSphere 4 courses:

  • Install, Configure, Manage
  • Fast Track
  • What’s New
  • Or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience
Objectives:
By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functions and features in vSphere 5.1 and be able to do the following:
  • List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.1
  • Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1
  • Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client to manage virtual machines
  • List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
  • Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere® VMFS-5 datastore
  • Understand and configure policy-driven storage
  • Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
  • Live migration of a virtual machine without shared storage
  • Secure the virtual machines using VMware® vShield Endpoint™ (now included in base vSphere product)
  • Backup and recover a vSphere environment using vSphere Data Protection
  • Replicate vSphere for SRM deployments using vSphere Replication
  • Use new displays to monitor VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster activity
  • Use the Linux-based VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
  • Use Auto Deploy to install a stateless
Course Introduction:
  • Introduction to VMware vSphere 5.1:
  • Virtual Machine Management:
  • Network Management:
  • Storage Management:
  • Scalability and Security:
  • High Availability:
  • New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives:

Updated on 08 November, 2015

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