Curriculum

Section 1: Installation And Initial Configuration

Lecture 1

0101 Introduction to VMWare vSphere Administration

Lecture 2

0102 About The Author

Lecture 3

0103 Virtualization Overview - Part 1

12

Lecture 4

0104 Virtualization Overview - Part 2

06

Lecture 5

0105 Virtualization Overview - Part 3

08

Lecture 6

0106 Installing ESXi

08

Lecture 7

0107 Configuring ESXi With DCUI Interface

11

Lecture 8

0108 ESXi Shell Commands

04

Section 2: Working With the vSphere Client

Lecture 9

0201 Installing vSphere Client

01

Lecture 10

0202 Managing Hosts With vSphere Client - Part 1

08

Lecture 11

0203 Managing Hosts With vSphere Client - Part 2

07

Section 3: Networking
Lecture 12

0301 Introduction To Networking

11

Lecture 13

0302 Adding Port Groups And VMKernel Ports

06

Lecture 14

0303 Network Traffic Shaping And Load Balancing

10

Section 4: Storage

Lecture 15

0401 VMFS File System

09

Lecture 16

0402 Configuring iSCSI

10

Lecture 17

0403 Storage Path Selection

08

Lecture 18

0404 NFS Datastores

05

Section 5: Virtual Machines

Lecture 19

0501 Creating Virtual Machines: Windows 2008 R2 X64

11

Lecture 20

0502 Installing VMware Tools

08

Lecture 21

0503 Virtual Machine Settings

12

Lecture 22

0504 Virtual Machine Snapshots

07

Lecture 23

0505 Virtual Machine Settings For Performance

09

Lecture 24

0506 Optimizing Performance With Paravirtual Devices

08

Lecture 25

0601 vCenter Install

05

Lecture 26

0602 Adding Host To vCenter

07

Lecture 27

0603 vCenter Server Settings

08

Lecture 28

0604 Roles And Permissions

11

Lecture 29

0605 Configuring Alarms

08

Lecture 30

0606 Scheduled Tasks

03

Lecture 31

0607 Events And Logs

04

Lecture 32

0608 Deploying Virtual Machines From Templates

08

Section 6: vCenter

Section 7: vSphere Web Client

Lecture 33

0701 Installing vSphere Web Client

02

Lecture 34

0702 Using vSphere Web Client

07

Section 8: Performance
Lecture 35

0801 Performance Graphs

14

Lecture 36

0802 Using ESXTOP

03

Lecture 37

0803 Resource Reservations And Limits

06

Lecture 38

0804 Resource Pools

08

Lecture 39

0901 Storage vMotion

05

Lecture 40

0902 vMotion

07

Section 9: vMotion

Section 10: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Lecture 41

1001 Creating A DRS Cluster

06

Lecture 42

1002 Configure DRS Cluster

05

Lecture 43

1003 DRS Recommendations

07

Section 11: High Availability (HA)

Lecture 44

1101 Configuring HA

12

Lecture 45

1102 HA Failover

07

Section 12: vCenter Update Manager (VUM)

Lecture 46

1201 Installing VUM

04

Lecture 47

1202 Configuring VUM

05

Lecture 48

1203 VUM Baselines, Scanning, And Remediation

09

Lecture 49

1204 Updating Virtual Machine Hardware And Tools Using VUM

03

Section 13: vSphere Data Protection (VDP)

Lecture 50

1301 vSphere Data Protection Install And Initial Config

06

Lecture 51

1302 vSphere Data Protection Backup And Restore

06

Lecture 52

1303 vSphere Data Protection File Level Restore

02

Section 14: Conclusion

Lecture 53

1401 Conclusion

01