• Virtualization Products Compared
• VMware ESXi4 Free Edition for the SMB
• VMware vSphere 4 and ESX Essentials
• vSphere Management Options

2. vCenter 4

• vCenter architectural and feature overview
• vCenter components
• Working with VMware Licensing
• Connecting VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client

3. vCenter 4 : Configuring vSphere Storage

• Creating a Free iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
• Connecting iSCSI SAN to vSphere
• Mapping iSCSI Volume to Virtual Guest Machines
• Multi-pathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
• Storage type performance considerations

4. Load Balancing with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

• VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Availability options requirements
• Configuring VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Availability options
• Distributed Resource Scheduler Cluster configuration and tuning
• Troubleshooting VMware DRS Cluster configuration and tuning

5. VMware High Availability (HA)

• VMware High Availability options requirements
• Configuring VMware High Availability options
• Testing Failure Recover with High Availability Clusters
• Manaully take ownership of aVM form a failed server
• Troubleshooting VMware High Availability

6. VMware VMotion and Storage Motion (VMotion and Storage Motion)

• VMware VMotion requirements
• Configuring VMware VMotion
• Moving Virtual Machines
• Moving Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
• Troubleshooting VMotion

7. Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

• VMware Fault Tolerance requirements
• Configuring VMware Fault Tolerance
• Testing Failure Recover with VMware Fault Tolerance
• Troubleshooting VMware Fault Tolerance

8. Backup and Restore Data

• Backing Up the Service Console
• ESX and ESXi Backup and Restore Configuraiton
• Power Off Backup Virtual Guest Machines
• Power On Backup : Snapshot Virtual Guest Machines
• VMware Consoildated Backup (VCB)
• VMware Converter migration Physical to Virtualization

9. Upgrading from VMware ESX 3.x and Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 4