VMware: vSphere 4: Managing Scalability Course

This is a training course. System Administrators are taught to handle scalable VMware® vSphereTM 4 virtual infrastructure.

Course Guidelines:
Thin Provisioning
Overview of vSphere features for adding ability to scale VMFS storage by more efficiently allocating space to virtual disk files
Monitor and manage thin-provisioned VMFS datastores and virtual disk storage allocation and usage
Use Host Profiles to maintain ESX/ESXi host compliance
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
Use VMware vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
ESX/ESXi host script commands
Use ESX scripted installation to automate deployment of ESX/ESXi hosts