This hands-on training course introduces the most compelling features of VMware vSphere 5, which is the foundational component of the cloud infrastructure suite of software from VMware. This course demonstrates vSphere features that help reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, scalability, flexibility, and manageability. The course is based on VMware ESXi 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server 5.0.
By the end of the course, you will be able to explain vSphere 5.0 storage, network, and virtualization concepts and have hands-on experience with the following:
• Using the VMware vSphere® Client™ to deploy and manage virtual machines
• Using VMware vSphere® vMotion® to migrate live virtual machines
• Using vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate live virtual machine data
• Configuring ESXi clusters to automatically balance virtual machine workloads
• Hierarchically allocating CPU and memory resources to specific business functions
• Using vCenter Server alarms and performance graphs to actively monitor the datacenter
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