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 | Viewing Physical Partitions and the Service Console Virtual Disk |
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| vCenter Installation |
| Creating a Database, a User, and Configuring Permissions in SQL Server 2008 Manually |
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| Creating a Database, a User, and the vCenter Database Schema with a Script Part 1 |
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| Creating a Database, a User, and the vCenter Database Schema with a Script Part 2 |
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| Installing the SQL Server Native Client Driver For SQL Server 2008 |
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| Creating a Data Source Name on a 32 bit OS |
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| Creating a 32 bit Data Source Name on a 64 bit OS |
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| Configuring SQL Server TCP/IP for JDBC |
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| Permissions Necessary To Install vCenter |
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| vCenter and IPv6 |
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| Install vCenter |
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| If vCenter Service Fails On Reboot |
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| Installing VMWare Converter |
| Installing VMWare Converter on vCenter |
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| Fixing vSphere Client Errors After Converter Installation |
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| Installing the Converter Plugin |
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| Installing the Converter Plugin on Other Desktops With vSphere Client |
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| Licensing |
| New Licensing Model |
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| Managing vSphere Licenses |
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| Applying a License When Adding a Host to vCenter |
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| vCenter Configuration and Administration |
| Creating a Datacenter |
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| Creating a Cluster |
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| Adding an ESX Host to vCenter |
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| Adding a Second ESX Host to vCenter |
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| Inventory Views |
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| Organizing Virtual Machines into Folders with Virtual Machine Inventory View |
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| Configuring the SMTP and Sender Account for vCenter |
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| Configuring the SNMP Receivers |
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| Configuring the Maximum Number of Database Connections |
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| Configuring the Retention Policy for Tasks and Events |
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| Configuring SSL Settings to Verify Hosts |
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| Restarting vCenter |
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| ESX Host Configuration and Administration |
| Advanced Settings |
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| Increasing the Service Console Memory |
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| Configuring a Network Time Server for Date and Time Synchronization |
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| Configuring DNS and Routing |
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| Configuring the ESX Firewall |
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| Configuring Virtual Machine Automatic Startup and Shutdown Order |
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| Reserving Memory and CPU for the ESX Host |
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| Advanced ESX Host Settings |
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| Configuring the default Virtual Machine Swapfile Location |
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| Putting an ESX Server in Maintenance Mode |
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| Shutting Down and Rebooting an ESX Server using the vSphere Client |
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| Shutting Down and Rebooting an ESX Server from the Service Console |
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| Virtual Machine Hardware Administration |
| Adding Memory and CPUs to a Virtual Machine |
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| Adding and Removing a Virtual CD/DVD Drive and Mounting CDs, DVDs, or ISO Images |
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| Adding, Removing, and Configuring Virtual Network Adapters |
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| Adding Virtual SCSI Controllers |
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| Removing Virtual SCSI Controllers |
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| Using USB Devices With Virtual Machines |
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| New Virtual Hardware with vSphere |
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| Viewing the Virtual Machine Hardware Version |
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| Guest OS Compatibility For Virtual Machine Hot Add Processor, Memory, and Devices |
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| Virtual Machine Hot Add processor and Memory |
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| Virtual Machine Hot Add Devices and Virtual Hard Disks |
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| VMDirectPath |
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| VMWare Paravirtualized SCSI Adapter |
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| Virtual Disk Administration |
| Creating and Configuring Thick Virtual Disks |
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| Creating and Configuring Thin Virtual Disks |
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| Converting a Thin Disk to a Thick Disk using the Datastore Browser |
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| Converting a Thin Disk to Thick Using Storage vMotion |
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| Converting a Thick Disk to a Thin Disk Using VMKFSTOOLS |
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| Converting a Thick Disks to Thin Disk Using Storage vMotion |
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| Converting All Disks to Thin or Thick by Cloning a Virtual Machine |
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| Creating an EagerZeroedThick Disk With VMKFSTOOLS and Zeroing Out an Existing Disk |
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| Hot Extend Thick or Thin Virtual Disks that are Not in Persistent Mode |
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| Downloading a Virtual Disk from an ESX Server to a Windows Computer |
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| Uploading a Virtual Disk to an ESX Server from a Windows Computer |
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| vSphere CLI and vSphere Management Assistant |
| Downloading and Installing the vSphere CLI |
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| Using the vSphere CLI |
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| Downloading the vSphere Management Assistant |
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| Importing and Configuring the vSphere Management Assistant |
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| Using the vSphere Management Assistant |
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| Configuring and Using vi-FastPass for Command Authentication |
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| Storage Administration |
| Shared Storage vs. Local Storage |
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| What is a Datastore |
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| Device Names |
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| Creating a Local Datastore |
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| Creating the VMKernel Port Part 1 |
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| Creating the VMKernel Port Part 2 |
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| Enabling the Software iSCSI Initiator for iSCSI Storage |
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| An Example of Creating an iSCSI LUN with HP Left Hand |
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| Adding the ESX Software iSCSI Initiators to HP Left Hand |
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| Assigning the LUN to the ESX Servers |
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| Configuring the ESX iSCSI Initiator Discovery Method and Discovering the iSCSI LUN |
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| Creating an iSCSI Datastore |
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| Creating an NFS Datastore |
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| Scanning for Fiber Channel SAN LUNs |
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| Browsing a Datastores using the vSphere Client |
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| Browsing a Datastores using the Service Console |
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| Increasing the Size of a Datastore by Adding Extents |
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| VMFS Volume Grow |
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| Organize storage in folders - Centralized Datastore Management |
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| Datastore Inventory, Storage Topology Maps, and Storage Utilization Reports |
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| Storage Administration From The Service Console |
| Using the esxcfg-scsidevs Command |
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| Using the vmkping Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-swiscsi Command |
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| Using the vmkiscsi-tool Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-rescan Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-nas Command |
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| Networking |
| vSwitches and Port Groups |
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| Creating a vSwitch |
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| Configuring a vSwitch |
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| Creating and Configuring a Virtual Machine Port Group |
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| Configuring a Virtual Machine to use a Port Group |
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| Modifying the Service Console |
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| Creating a Second Service Console |
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| Creating and Configuring a VMKernel Port Group |
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| Enabling IPv6 Support for ESX |
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| Enabling IPv6 for the Service Console and VMKernel |
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| Advanced Networking |
| Enable the Cisco Discovery Protocol on a vSwitch and Viewing Cisco Port Information |
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| What is Teaming and Trunking? |
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| Teaming Policies |
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| Configuring Teaming on a vSwitch with No Physical Switch Configuration |
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| Configuring Etherchannel and Trunking on a Cisco Switch Part 1 |
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| Configuring Etherchannel and Trunking on a Cisco Switch Part 2 |
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| Configuring Teaming and VLAN tagging on the vSwitch |
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| Networking Best Practices |
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| Network Administration From The Service Console |
| Using the esxcfg-nics Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-vswitch Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-vswif Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-vmknic Command |
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| Using the esxcfg-route Command |
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| Setting the Load Balancing Policy From the Service Console |
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| Advanced iSCSI |
| Multipathing iSCSI |
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| Port Binding Multiple NICs and Multiple VMKernel Ports for iSCSI Multipathing |
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| Creating Multiple vSwitches for iSCSI Multipathing |
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| Activating iSCSI Multipathing |
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| Using ESXCLI Directly on the Host |
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| Viewing Traffic From Both VMKernel Ports |
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| Configuring the Multipathing Policy |
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| Removing Multipathing |
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| Configuring the VMKernal to use iSCSI and NFS Jumbo Frames Part 1 |
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| Configuring the VMKernal to use iSCSI and NFS Jumbo Frames Part 2 |
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| Administering vNetwork Distributed Switches |
| Creating a vNetwork Distributed Switch |
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| Configuring a Port Group on a vNetwork Distributed Switch |
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| Creating a Private VLAN on a vNetwork Distributed Switch |
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| Creating a Service Console and VMKernel ports on a vNetwork Distributed Switch |
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| Migrating Virtual Machines to a vNetwork Distributed Switch |
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| Security |
| Roles and Permissions on a Standalone ESX Server |
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| Creating and Modifying Roles in vCenter |
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| Setting Permissions |
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| Permissions at the Datastore Level |
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| Snapshots |
| What are Snapshots |
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| Taking a Snapshot of a Virtual Machine |
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| Reverting to a Snapshot |
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| Snapshot Trees |
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| Deleting Snapshots |
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| Cloning Virtual Machines and Using Virtual Machine Templates |
| Adding Sysprep tools to vCenter for Windows Guest OS Customization |
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| Cloning a Virtual Machine |
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| Cloning a Virtual Machine and Using a Customization Specification Part 1 |
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| Cloning a Virtual Machine and Using a Customization Specification Part 2 |
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| Managing and Using Customization Specifications |
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| Creating Virtual Machine Templates |
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| Converting a Template to a Virtual Machine |
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| Deploying a Virtual Machine from a Virtual Machine Template |
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| VMotion and Storage VMotion |
| Requirements for vMotion and Storage vMotion |
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| Port Group Names and vMotion |
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| Enabling vMotion on the VMKernel Port |
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| Migrating a Virtual Machine with vMotion |
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| Storage VMotion |
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| High Availability (HA) |
| What is HA? |
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| Enabling HA on a Cluster |
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| Configuring Host Failure Threshold and Admission Control |
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| Restart Priority and Isolation |
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| Configure Virtual Machine Monitoring |
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| Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) |
| What is DRS? |
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| Enabling DRS |
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| DRS Automation Level and Migration Threshold |
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| Creating a DRS Rule |
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| Setting DRS Automation at the Virtual Machine Level |
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| Distributed Power Management |
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| DRS Start Up Recommendations |
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| Viewing and Applying DRS Migration Recommendations |
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| Viewing the Resource Distribution Chart |
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| Resource Pools |
| Creating a Resource Pool |
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| Specifying Virtual Machine Resource Reservation and Limits |
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| Adding a Virtual Machine to a Resource Pool |
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| Monitoring a Resource Pool Utilizations |
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| Fault Tolerance |
| Fault Tolerance CPU Requirements |
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| Configuring Fault Tolerance Cluster and Networking Prerequisites |
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| Configuring a Virtual Machine to Use Fault Tolerance |
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| Fault Tolerance Statistics |
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| Disabling or Removing Fault Tolerance From a Virtual Machine |
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| vCenter Linked Mode |
| Understanding vCenter Linked Mode and Stand Alone vCenter Servers |
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| Connecting Multiple vCenters into a Linked Mode Group |
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| Viewing and Administering Shared Roles |
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| Isolating a vCenter Server From a Linked Group |
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| Host Profiles |
| What are Host Profiles |
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| Creating a Host Profile |
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| Exporting and Importing Host Profiles |
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| Editing Host Profiles |
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| Attaching Entities and Checking for Compliance |
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| Applying Host Profiles |
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| vApp |
| What is a vApp? |
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| Create a new vApp and Allocate Resources |
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| Adding Virtual Machines to vApps and Configuring Startup Order |
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| Creating IP Pools for vApps |
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| Backing up and Restoring Virtual Machines with VMWare Data Recovery |
| What is VMWare Data Recovery? |
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| Data Recovery Deduplication of Backup Data and Appliance Limits |
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| Compatibility With Virtual Machines Created With Previous Versions of ESX |
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| Downloading the VMWare Data Recovery Appliance and Plug-in |
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| Installing the VMWare Data Recovery Plug-in |
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| Installing the VMWare Data Recovery Virtual Appliance |
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| Initial Configuration of the Data Recovery Appliance |
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| Connect to Data Recovery Appliance and Configure Backup Locations |
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| Create a Backup Job |
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| View Progress of Backups and Backup Reports |
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| Configuring Data Recovery Appliance After Getting Started Wizard |
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| Restoring Virtual Machines |
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| Performing a Restore Rehearsal to Test Backups |
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| vShield Zones |
| What is vShield? |
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| Installing the vShield Appliances |
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| Configuring the vShield Management Port Group |
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| Initial vShield Manager Configuration |
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| Adding a vShield Zone |
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| Enable Continuous Discovery |
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| Post vShield Installation Configuration |
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| Protecting a Virtual Machine With vShield |
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| Creating a Second vShield Zone |
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| Enabling vMotion for Protected Virtual Machines with vShield Zones |
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| Viewing and Analyzing Network Traffic With VM Flow |
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| Adding Firewall Rules to VM Wall |
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| Uninstalling vShield Appliance |
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| Scheduled Tasks |
| Creating Scheduled Tasks |
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| Monitoring and Troubleshooting |
| Performance Charts |
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| Events and Alarms |
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| vCenter Server Status |
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| System Logs |
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| vCenter Logging Options |
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| Receiving EMails or SNMP Traps for Events and Alarms |
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| Using ESXTOP |
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| HTML Performance Summary Reports |
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| Exporting Performance to Excel |
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