VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.0]

Overview

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0 and VMware ESXi™ 5.0. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0. vSphere 5.0 is the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor.

Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere 5.0 courses

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functions and features in vSphere 5.0 and be able to do the following:

• List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.0
• Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0
• Use the vSphere Web Client to manage virtual machines
• List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
• Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere® VMFS-5 datastore
• Understand and configure policy-driven storage
• Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
• Use new displays to monitor vSphere High Availability cluster activity
• Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Auto Deploy to install a stateless ESXi host
• Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile

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