VMware vSphere 5.5: What´s New

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1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
vSphere 5 documentation resources
2. Introducing VMware vSphere 5.5
Describe key enhancements in ESXi and vCenter Server
Describe the upgrade process from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.5
Use vCenter Server Appliance to manage the vSphere platform
Use the vSphere Web Client to search for objects and view object information
Use vCenter Single Sign-On to add users and assign roles
3. Virtual Machine Management
Describe virtual machine hardware features introduced in vSphere 5.x
Describe virtual machine enhancements introduced in vSphere 5.5
4. Network Management
Describe new features of distributed switches, including network rollback, exporting, importing, and restoring a distributed switch configuration, traffic filtering and marking policy, NetFlow, port mirroring, Link Aggregation Control Protocol, Link Layer Discover Protocol, Single Root I/O Virtualization, and health check
Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control
Configure and test port mirroring
5. Storage Management
Describe new storage features, including VMFS-5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, virtual machine storage policies, VMware vSphere® Flash Read Cache™, and VMware® Virtual SAN™
Describe enhancements to VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®, solid-state drive support, and VMware vSphere® Storage APIs-Array Integration
Upgrade VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
Create user-defined storage capabilities and virtual machine storage policies
6. Scalability
Describe vSphere Storage DRS and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
Create a datastore cluster
Configure vSphere Storage DRS
7. Availability
Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™
Describe the features, benefits, and architecture of VMware vSphere® Replication
Describe the enhancements to vSphere HA
Monitor vSphere HA cluster activity
8. VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives
Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create and export an image profile
Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision an ESXi host