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VMware technology improves the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications through virtualisation.
Joskos' Vmware course is designed to give both experienced and new IT professionals the edge in the IT market as it is a highly sought-after technology by IT employers.
Vmware has revolutionised the old "one server, one application" model and allows users to runs multiple virtual machines on each physical machine. It's designed to stop IT administrators from spending so much time managing servers rather than innovating. About 70% of a typical IT budget in a non-virtualised datacenter goes towards just maintaining the existing infrastructure, with little left for innovation.
Below is a breakdown of Joskos' VMware course:
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Description:
- This self-paced e-learning course discusses how to install, configure, and manage vCenter AppSpeed to monitor applications performance for those applications that run in the virtual environment.
Objectives:
- After completing this course, learners should be able to:
- Deploy vCenter AppSpeed
- Configure a vCenter AppSpeed Probe on an ESX host
- Describe Application Mapping
- Describe Use Cases for AppSpeed
- Generate Events
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This self-paced course is designed to introduce the student to the VMware vCenter Lab Manager product. This course will give students an overview of how Lab Manager works, usage scenarios, installation requirements, administrative tasks, and an overview of the steps for installing, initializing and configuring Lab Manager.
Objectives:
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After this course, you should be able to:
- Define Lab Manager and describe its benefits
- Identify appropriate scenarios to use Lab Manager
- Recognize the Lab Manager architectural components and explain their functions
- Configure and install Lab Manager components
- Demonstrate and discuss key Lab Manager features and functions
- Identify the administrative tasks and features in Lab Manager
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Description:
- This eLearning course demonstrates how to install and use SRM to create, test, and run disaster recovery plans.
Objectives:
After this course, students should be able to:
- Discuss the key challenges of disaster recovery
- Describe how SRM works
- Install SRM
- Set up a protection site
- Create, test, and run disaster recovery plans
- Administer SRM
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Description:
- This course covers the key functions and components of VMware vSphere including the overall architecture, installation, vCenter and virtual machine management, networking, and storage.
Objectives:
After completing this course, students will understand the following:
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New features in vSphere
- Prerequisites for installing ESX 4.0, vSphere Client 4.0, vCenter Server 4.0 and how to connect an ESX host to vCenter Server
- The vSphere datacenter architecture, the vNetwork architecture, and networking features
- The VMware vStorage architecture and techniques to maximize space
- Key concepts of vCenter
- Students will also learn about adding and removing virtual machines, working with snapshots, patching virtual machines, and importing and exporting virtual machines
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This self-paced course introduces the new features in vSphere 4. The course begins with enhancement highlights by component. Next, we discuss upgrade tools and strategies. Then, we discuss in detail each new feature included in ESX/ESXi 4 and vCenter Server 4. More than 25% of the material is presented through interactive simulations so that you can practice working with the new interface.
Objectives:
At the end of the course, you should possess knowledge and skills for the following:
- Upgrading VMware deployments from VMware Infrastructure 3 to Next Generation
- Deploying distributed virtual switches to simplify datacenter-wide network management
- Using VMDirectPath to assign a PCI adapter directly to a virtual machine
- Migrating virtual machines storage while they are live with Storage vMotion
- Growing virtual disks and VMFS volumes while they are live
- Employing VMware's new Pluggable Storage Architecture
- Ensuring application availability with VMware Fault Tolerance
- Manage more than one vCenter server from the same client
- Use the new host profiles feature to keep hosts uniformly configured
- Save energy with VMware Distributed Power Management
- Save disk space with thin provisioning
- Administer virtual appliances consisting of more than one virtual machine
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Description:
- This course will focus individuals who are new to VMware Workstation and cover introductory topics as well as provide foundation for understanding virtualisation.
Objectives:
After completing this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the basic architecture of Workstation 7
- Discuss the new features available in Workstation and the use cases
- Install Workstation 7
- Create a new virtual machine from an operating system image
- Install VMware Tools
- Create a virtual machine and configure networking
- Create, revert, and delete a virtual machine snapshot
- Connect external USB devices to a virtual machine
- Share files with the host operating system
- Add a hard drive to a virtual machine and
- Use the Unity feature
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This self-paced course discusses how to install, configure, and manage vCenter Chargeback to implement an effective cost accounting system for the virtualised environment.
Objectives:
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After completing this course, learners should be able to:
- Describe the need for Chargeback
- Discuss Chargeback methods
- Install and manage vCenter Chargeback application
- Deploy vCenter Chargeback as a virtual appliance
- Configure vCenter Chargeback application with common administration settings
- Create and manage chargeback hierarchies
- Create and manage cost models and templates
- Generate and manage reports
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