VMware vSphere 4 : What’s New

Exisiting VCP?

If you are an existing VCP all you need to do is attend this 2-day Whats New? course in order to upgrade your certification to VCP on vSphere4 – this shortcut to certification is only available until the end of December 2009. Thereafter you would need to attend the 4 day vSphere 4 ICM course in order to be eligible to sit your examination

This hands-on training course explores new features in future versions of VMware® vCenter Server and ESX™/ESXi, as well as how to upgrade to vSphere 4.

This course is designed for System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for implementing and managing VMware Infrastructure architectures.

Course Content

Module 1: Introducing vSphere 4

* Highlights vSphere 4 enhancements by component and reviews upgrade tools and strategies.

Module 2: Infrastructure Administration

* Presents vSphere 4 new features that support better infrastructure monitoring and reduce the time it takes to provision ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines.

Module 3: Networking

* Discusses networking enhancements that simplify configuration, extend support, and improve performance.

Module 4: Storage

* Introduces vSphere 4 new storage features that reduce storage costs, streamline management, and optimize performance.

Module 5: Resource Management

* Reviews vMotion™ compatibility enhancements, new VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler monitoring and management tools, and extended VMware DPM support.

Module 6: Business Continuity

* Presents VMware High Availability enhancements and introduces VMware Fault Tolerance and vStorage APIs for data recovery.

Skills

At the end of the course, you should possess knowledge and skills for the following:

* Upgrading VMware deployments
* Deploying distributed virtual switches to simplify datacenter-wide network management
* Using VMDirectPath to assign a PCI adapter directly to a virtual machine
* Migrating virtual machines’ storage while they are live with Storage vMotion
* Growing virtual disks and VMFS volumes while they are live
* Employing VMware’s new Pluggable Storage Architecture
* Ensuring application availability with VMware Fault Tolerance
* Manage more than one vCenter Server from the same client
* Use the new host profiles feature to keep hosts uniformly configured
* Save energy with VMware Distributed Power Management
* Save disk space with thin provisioning
* Administer virtual appliances consisting of more than one virtual machine