I've just received the official VMware vSphere: Fast Track and Manage Availability training guides.
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. Upon completing this course, you can take the examination to qualify as a VMware Certified Professional.
Course Objectives:
Install and configure VMware ESX™/ESXi, vCenter™ Server, and the vSphere Management Assistant- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot ESX/ESXi networking and storage
- Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
- Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Implement business continuity solutions
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
VMware vSphere: Manage Availability
This hands-on training course equips system administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in building and running a highly available VMware vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure. At the end of the course, you should be able to understand the functionality in vSphere and be able to:
- List the components of business continuity
- Describe Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 cluster configurations
- Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster using nondefault options
- Deploy fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Deploy VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat
