vSphere: Transition to ESXi (VTE)

System administrators, systems engineers, technical support engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and supporting a vSphere installation.

Completion of the VMware vSphere 6: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) course or the VMware vSphere 5.5 to 6: What’s New (VIWN) course or have experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and VMware vCenter™ products.

This hands-on training course covers the requirements and effects of transitioning your VMware vSphere™ environment to VMware® ESXi. It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions and successfully add ESXi to a deployed vSphere environment. The course is based on ESXi 4.1. At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Analyze ESXi and its benefits for your environment
• Identify ESXi installation and configuration procedures
• Use scripted installations for large-scale ESXi deployments
• Employ scripting interfaces to manage ESXi
• Identify risks when migrating to ESXi

This hands-on training course covers the requirements and effects of transitioning your VMware vSphere™ environment to VMware® ESXi. It provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions and successfully add ESXi to a deployed vSphere environment. The course is based on ESXi 4.1. At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Analyze ESXi and its benefits for your environment
• Identify ESXi installation and configuration procedures
• Use scripted installations for large-scale ESXi deployments
• Employ scripting interfaces to manage ESXi
• Identify risks when migrating to ESXi

Course Content

Course Introduction Working with VMware ESXi

• Identify differences between ESX and ESXi
• Recognize tasks and procedures when moving to ESXi

Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi

• Analyze ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Install and configure ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded
• Recognize the steps for upgrading to ESXi

Performing Management Tasks

• Identify hardware monitoring techniques
• Discuss system management and backup methodology
• Distinguish the log files
• Recognize security methodologies
• Employ file management practices
• Perform basic troubleshooting with the direct console user interface

Large-Scale Deployment of VMware ESXi

• Identify scripted installation programs for ESXi (SDK and Weasel)
• Analyze the commands to perform scripted installation
• Discuss best practices for large-scale deployment

Using Scripting Interfaces

• Identify the scripting interfaces for ESXi
• Discuss primary scripting interfaces
• Install VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Identify differences between commands used with ESX and those used with ESXi
• Recognize custom commands and how to substitute VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface commands or vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets for them

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