VMware vSphere 4: Advanced Features
Part 3 of 3 in the VMware vSphere 4 series explores the advanced features in VMware vSphere, including moving vms and storage, optimizing performance, load balancing, high availability and more.
What you'll learn
Part 3 of 3 in the VMware vSphere 4 series explores the advanced features in VMware vSphere, including moving vms and storage, optimizing performance, load balancing, high availability and more. In the VMware vSphere 4 series, you'll be learning to virtualize your server and network infrastructure in an innovative, efficient, and reliable way. By utilizing the power of cloud computing, VMware vSphere will allow you to dramatically reduce costs, increase control over your IT infrastructure, while maintaining flexibility and security. If you are a complete beginner to VMware, have used previous versions of the software, or have some experience with VMware Server, you'll benefit from this course.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Vocabulary You Should Know 4m
- vApp Overview 2m
- New OVF 1.0 Additions in vSphere 4 1m
- How do vApps Relate to the VCP 4 Certification? 1m
- VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace 4m
- Importing a Virtual Appliance 4m
- Building a vApp 2m
- Adding a VM to Your vApp 2m
- Editing vApp Properties 6m
- Groups and Start Order 2m
- Exporting Your vApp 3m
- Importing Your vApp 3m
- Cloning a vApp 2m
- Using the Free OVF Tool 10m
- Introduction 1m
- What's New in vSphere 4 Related to Performance 3m
- Selecting the Right Hardware 3m
- Performance Best Practices 3m
- Why You Should Care About 'Ready Time' 2m
- vSphere Performance Management Tools 10m
- CLI Performance Tool esxtop on ESX Full and ESXi 4m
- More vSphere Performance Management Tools 3m
- 3rd Party Performance Management Tools 1m
- Using Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Upgrade Prerequisites 4m
- Basic Upgrade Process 2m
- Edition Licenses 2m
- Upgrade Checklist for the Wired Brain Coffee Company 3m
- vCenter Server Upgrade 4m
- ESX Host Upgrade Using the vSphere Host Upgrade Utility 7m
- Upgrading VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware Version 3m
- Upgrading Licensing 5m
- Introduction 1m
- Auto Load Balancing with DRS 5m
- Requirements to Use DRS 1m
- Reserving Resources 2m
- Creating a DRS Enabled Cluster 5m
- Adding ESX Servers to Our Cluster 2m
- Testing DRS 5m
- Using Resource Allocation 5m
- DRS/HA Cluster Settings 5m
- Resource Distribution Chart 1m
- Creating Resource Pools 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Comparing VIMA and RCLI 3m
- Logging Into VIMA and RCLI 3m
- VMware Health Check Report 7m
- Creating and Running Pearl Script for Health Report 4m
- Running esxtop on VMware ESXi using RCLI or VIMA with resxtop.sh 3m
- Backup and Restore VMware ESXi Config with vicfg-cfgbackup.pl 2m
- Move Virtual Disks While the Guest Runs Using svmotion.pl 1m
- Managing Networking with Commands 5m
- Storage Management with Commands 2m
- System Management with Commands 4m
- Other Management Commands 2m
- Managing VM Guests with vmware-cmd 7m
- Managing Virtual Disk and File System Storage Using vmkfstools 4m
- Things to Remember! 2m
- What We Covered 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more