VMware vSphere:Transition to ESXi

Overview

This hands-on training course covers the requirements and effects of
transitioning your VMware vSphere™ environment to VMware® ESXi.
It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental
design decisions and successfully add ESXi to a deployed vSphere
environment. The course is based on ESXi 4.1.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Analyze ESXi and its benefits for your environment
• Identify ESXi installation and configuration procedures
• Use scripted installations for large-scale ESXi deployments
• Employ scripting interfaces to manage ESXi
• Identify risks when migrating to ESXi

Target Audience

System administrators, systems engineers, technical support
engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and supporting a vSphere installation

Prerequisites

Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware vSphere 4: What’s New course or have experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and VMware vCenter™ products

Scope

• Two (2) days of instructor-led, classroom training
• 60% lecture, 40% hands-on lab
• Individual enrollment available at convenient locations worldwide
http://www.vmware.com/education

• Contact your VMware representative for pricing information.
• Onsite training available for companies that want the benefits of instructor-led classes without travel
• Contact VMware Education to discuss facility requirements for onsite training at
education@vmware.com.

Course Outline
Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Working with VMware ESXi

• Identify differences between ESX and ESXi
• Recognize tasks and procedures when moving to ESXi

Module 3: Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi

• Analyze ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Install and configure ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Recognize the steps for upgrading to ESXi

Module 4: Performing Management Tasks

• Identify hardware monitoring techniques
• Discuss system management and backup methodology
• Distinguish the log files
• Recognize security methodologies
• Employ file management practices
• Perform basic troubleshooting with the direct console user interface

Module 5: Large-Scale Deployment of VMware ESXi

• Identify scripted installation programs for ESXi (SDK and Weasel)
• Analyze the commands to perform scripted installation
• Discuss best practices for large-scale deployment

Module 6: Using Scripting Interfaces

• Identify the scripting interfaces for ESXi
• Discuss primary scripting interfaces
• Install VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Identify differences between commands used with ESX and those used with ESXi
• Recognize custom commands and how to substitute VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands or vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets for them


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