1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives
• Introduce virtualization

2. Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Compare the components and concept of virtual and traditional architecture
• Describe a virtual machine
• Identify the benefits of using a virtual machine
• Describe the components and features of vSphere
• Describe inventory objects managed by vSphere
• Describe the features of vCenter Server

3. VMware vSphere Web Client

• Access and Use the VMware vSphere Web Client
• Describe the navigation panes in the vSphere Web Client

4. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

• Describe virtual machine components
• Create a virtual machine
• Install a guest operating system and VMware Tools
• Clone a virtual machine
• Create an OVF template
• Customize a virtual machine
• Register and unregister a virtual machine in vCenter Server
• Perform snapshot operations

5. Virtual Machine Resource Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU, memory, and disk usage
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor virtual machine resource usage
• Describe and monitor tasks
• Describe, monitor, and manage events
• Describe, monitor, manage, and acknowledge alarms

6. Using VMware vSphere vApps

• Describe VMware vSphere vApps
• Create, edit, and manage vApp
• Clone a vApp
• Manage power status of vApp

7. Migrating Virtual Machines

• Describe and use cold migration to migrate a virtual machine
• Verify host and virtual machine requirements for vSphere vMotion
• Migrate a virtual machine with vSphere vMotion
• Migrate virtual machine storage with vSphere Storage vMotion
• Describe CPU compatibility with EVC
• Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Summarize VMware vSphere High Availability