vSphere 4: Managing Scalability

System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build scalability into their existing VMware vSphere deployments.

• Saving disk space by thin-provisioning virtual machines
• Using Host Profiles to keep ESX/ESXi hosts uniformly configured and manage configuration compliance
• Configuring VMware DRS clusters with non-default options
• Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management
• Managing more than one vCenter Server from the same vSphere Client with VMware vCenter Linked Mode

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Thin Provisioning

Overview of vSphere features for adding ability to scale VMFS storage by more efficiently allocating space to virtual disk files

Monitor and manage thin-provisioned VMFS datastores and virtual disk storage allocation and usage

Module 3: Host Profiles

Create, manage and apply vSphere Host Profiles to ESX/ESXi hosts

Use Host Profiles to maintain ESX/ESXi host compliance

Module 4: VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Clusters

Use VMware DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) non-default configuration options

• Configure DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules for cluster scalability

Configure VMware DPM to provide efficient power management for DRS-enabled clusters

Module 5: VMware vCenter Linked Mode

Use VMware vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories

VMware vCenter Linked Mode architecture and requirements

Configure vCenter Linked Mode groups

Module 6: VMware ESX Scripted Installation

Use ESX scripted installation to automate deployment of ESX/ESXi hosts

Create and manage ESX installation scripts

ESX/ESXi host script commands