VMware ® vSphere: What's New v5.5

Course details

Students will explores new features in VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.5 and VMware ESXi™ 5.5. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5.5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.5.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• vSphere 5 documentation resources

2 - Introducing VMware vSphere 5.5

• Describe key enhancements in ESXi and vCenter Server
• Describe the upgrade process from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.5
• Use vCenter Server Appliance to manage the vSphere platform
• Use the vSphere Web Client to search for objects and view
• object information
• Use vCenter Single Sign-On to add users and assign roles

3 - Virtual Machine Management

• Describe virtual machine hardware features introduced in
• vSphere 5.x
• Describe virtual machine enhancements introduced in vSphere5.5

4 - Network Management

• Describe new features of distributed switches, including network rollback, exporting, importing, and restoring a distributed switch
• configuration, traffic filtering and marking policy, NetFlow, port mirroring, Link Aggregation Control Protocol, Link Layer Discover Protocol, Single Root I/O Virtualization, and health check
• Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control
• Configure and test port mirroring

5 - Storage Management

• Describe new storage features, including VMFS-5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, virtual machine storage policies, VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™, and VMware® Virtual SAN™
• Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®, solid-state drive support, and VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration
• Upgrade VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
• Create user-defined storage capabilities and virtual machine storage policies

6 - Scalability

• Describe vSphere Storage DRS and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure vSphere Storage DRS

7 - Availability

• Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™
• Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Replication
• Describe the enhancements to vSph

8 - VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives

• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create and export an image profile
• Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision an ESXi host

Target Audience: This class is suited for System administrators, IT managers, System architects, People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments

Related Certifications:

• VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization (on vSphere 5.5) (VCP5-DCV)

Related Exams:

• VCAP5-DCA
• VCP5-DCV