VMware vSphere 4: Managing Scalability

System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESXi, ESX, and/or vCenter Server

In this course you will learn:

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

1. Thin Provisioning

• vSphere features for adding ability to scale VMFS storage by more efficiently allocating space to virtual disk file
• Monitor and manage thin-provisioned VMFS datastores and virtual disk storage allocation and usage

2. Host Profiles

• Create, manage, and apply vSphere Host Profiles to ESX/ESXi hosts
• Use Host Profiles to maintain ESX/ESXi host compliance

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 command

• VMware vSphere 4: Manage Availability