They will teach you everything you need to know to get your environment up and running in just over 7 hours. You’ll learn how to install View components, manage user profiles and data, setup location-based printing, and much more. VMware View 5 Essentials covers new topics to help simplify desktop and applications management while increasing security and control. Some of what’s new includes persona management, upgrading to VMware View 5 and PCoIP optimization with a troubleshooting lesson.

You’ll learn how to:

• How to install components of VMware View
• Manage user profiles and data
• Setup location-based printing
• Virtualize applications with ThinApp

Plus, as soon as the VCA-DT5 is available, this course will be the perfect resource!

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Topics include…

Lesson 1 – Getting Started with VMware View 5 Essentials Training

In this lesson, you’ll meet your instructors, and learn about what is VDI and a brief overview of the entire course.

• About Brian Knudtson
• About Lane Leverett
• Series Purpose
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Expected Pre–existing Knowledge
• An Overview of the Course Topics
• Let’s Get Started

Lesson 2 – Course Scenario

Learn about the fictional company we’ll use to place the lessons into real-world situations.

• Advantage of a Course Scenario
• Our Scenario

Lesson 3 – Lab Setup

This lesson will introduce you to the lab environment where our demonstrations will occur.

• Advantages of a Lab
• My Lab Hardware
• Existing Infrastructure
• Additional VMs We’ll Use
• Active Directory
• My Favorite Supporting Resources

Lesson 4 – View Components and Licensing

In this lesson we’ll go over the individual View components and how they fit together to form the overall View Architecture.

• Management Services
• View Composer
• View Agent
• View Client
• User Experience
• ThinApp
• View Licensing

Lesson 5 – Installing View 5

In this lesson, we’ll go through the steps to bringing your View Infrastructure to life.

• System Requirements
• Active Directory Requirements
• Client Devices
• Installation Process

Lesson 6 – Configuring Virutal Desktops

In this lesson you’ll learn the concepts of building a streamlined base image, pooling of desktops, and how a desktop image can be partitioned into isolated components.

• Best Practices for Parent VM
• View Desktop Types
• Configuring View Desktop Pools
• Composer Linked Clones
• Persistent Disk
• Disposable Data Disk
• Pool Sizing

Lesson 7 – Maintaining Desktop Pools

This lesson goes through the concepts of getting desktop pools started and maintaining pools and sessions.

• User Entitlements
• Composer Operations
• Editing Pools
• Managing User Sessions
• Desktop Pool Management Demonstration

Lesson 8 – User Profiles and Data

In this lesson, we’ll discuss and demonstrate how we can maintain the users’ desktop environment from one View session to the next. This provides a consistent and familiar workspace for the users even when they’re not accessing the same desktop every day.

• Value of the User Profile
• Contents of the User Profile
• Options for Managing User Profiles
• View Persona Management
• Managing View Persona Management
• View Persona Management Settings
• Persistent Disk
• Disposable Disk
• Folder Redirection
• View Persona Management Demonstration
• View Persistent Disk Demonstration
• View Disposable Disk Demonstration

Lesson 9 – Printing

Dealing with printers can be difficult in any desktop environment, and View introduces some new challenges. In this lesson, we’ll cover some of the more popular ways of dealing with printers in a View environment.

• Printer Mapping Options
• View Location-Based Printing
• Implementing View Location-Based Printing
• Local Printer Redirection Demo
• View Location-Based Mapping Demo
• My Favorite Supporting Resources

Lesson 10 – Creating ThinApp Packages

To complete a truly dynamic and efficient Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, you will need to virtualize your business applications. In this lesson, we’ll show you the steps needed to virtualize applications using ThinApp.

• How ThinApp Virtualizes Applications
• ThinApp Requirements
• ThinApp Limitations
• Steps to Virtualizing with ThinApp
• ThinApp Packaging Machine Best Practices
• Composition of a ThinApp Project
• Composition of a ThinApp Package
• Advanced ThinApp Concepts
• Testing Packages
• Create a ThinApp Package Demonstration

Lesson 11 – ThinApp Deployment

Once your applications are virtualized with ThinApp, they still need to be delivered to the desktops. We’ll show you several ways to accomplish this in this lesson.

• Execution Modes
• Registering Packages
• ThinReg.exe Utility
• Deployment Options
• Package Security
• Login Script Deployment
• Integration with View

Lesson 12 – Monitoring View

After all is said and done you’re going to need to know how to care and feed your new View Environment. In this section we’ll dive into the different views for gathering information about the status of the environment as well as describe and demonstrate some of the different states and status of desktops and sessions.

• Event Database
• System Health Dashboard
• View Administrator Dashboard
• Desktop States
• Session Status
• Monitoring Walkthroughs

Lesson 13 – Troubleshooting View

All IT systems eventually fail in some way. To help prepare you for troubleshooting View, we’ve addressed many common failure points and pulled back the covers on several parts of View so you can better understand how they work.

• Common Failure Points
• Connection Procedures
• How Linked Clones Work
• Ports Needed For View
• PCoIP Performance
• Log File Locations
• Collecting Diagnostic Information
• Troubleshoot Problem Desktops
• Investigate Linked Clones

Lesson 14 – Upgrading to View 5

For environments that already have View 4.5 installed, this lesson will help guide you through the upgrade process.

• Version Compatibility
• Upgrade Steps
• Connection Server Upgrade
• Transfer Server Upgrade
• Composer Upgrade
• Agent Upgrade
• Client Upgrade

Lesson 15 – Next Steps

In this lesson, we’ll wrap up the course by recapping what we’ve covered throughout the course and look at what additional steps you should take in furthering your VMware career.

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Today (May 24, 2011), my vSphere Performance Video Training course from Train Signal is officially available for sale! This 14 hour, 40 lesson video training course is the only one of it’s kind. It focuses both on the VCAP-DCA blueprint (section 3 – DRS & Performance) as well as real-world vSphere troubleshooting. Additionally, I provided a lot of content on third-party tools that most companies use to manage and monitor performance.

The course is delivered INSTANTLY via streaming web access (which is iPad compatible) and you’ll also receive a DVD in the mail for offline viewing. The cost of the course is just $397 (about 1/10th the price of a similar classroom course) and I’m so sure that you’ll enjoy watching it that there is a money-back guarantee.

I spent the last three months creating this course and did everything possible to make it the best single source for vSphere Performance knowledge. I was honored to have the course reviewed by the distinguished Mike Laverick of RTFM-ED.co.uk. Mike provided me valuable feedback throughout the course creation to help me make the course as complete as possible.

The first 50 customers to purchase the course will receive a free copy of the Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman’s HA/DRS Technical Deepdive book!

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Watch the demo video below to see a sample from the full course:

Here’s the total course outline:

VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring Training – Course Outline

Lesson 1 – Getting Started with VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring Training Course

In this lesson you will meet your instructor and find out why vSphere Performance is important. You will find who should watch this course as well as what we will cover.

• About Your Instructor
• 7 Reasons Why vSphere Performance is Important
• Who Should Watch this Course?
• What We Cover in the Course

Lesson 2 – Lab Setup

In this lesson you will learn about the hardware and software requirements for your environment in order to better follow along with the course.

Lesson 3 – Course Scenario

In this lesson you will learn about the scenario we will be using throughout this course, which will allow us to work hands on with VMware vSphere in a corporate setting.

Lesson 4 – Where vSphere Performance Fits Into the VCAP-DCA

vSphere Performance is a critical topic in the VCAP-DCA exam but where does it fit in and what performance topics are on the DCA? Get the answers to these questions and pickup important DCA study tips in this lesson.

• Reviewing the VCAP-DCA Blueprint
• Understanding the Importance of Performance
• VCAP-DCA Study Tips

Lesson 5 – vSphere Performance Overview

In this lesson, you’ll get an overview of what makes vSphere work by learning about the different pieces such as the VMkernel, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), and more. Understand the difference between ESX and ESXi architecture as well as critical performance considerations in a virtual infrastructure.

• Performance and Performance Problems
• Troubleshooting Methodology
• Why is Performance Critical with Virtualization?
• What Makes Up vSphere?
• ESX Server Architecture
• ESXi Server Architecture
• Comparing ESX and ESXi Server
• Critical Performance Considerations
• Understanding the VMkernel
• Understanding the Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
• Viewing and Changing Monitor Mode

Lesson 6 – Understanding vSphere CPU Performance

Learn what causes CPU load and what affects CPU performance. Additionally, we’ll talk about CPU ready time and CPU worlds.

• CPU Scheduler Overview
• What Causes CPU Load?
• What Affects CPU Performance?
• What CPU Metrics Do I Need to Monitor?
• Importance of Ready Time
• What in the World is a CPU World?
• vSphere CPU Scheduler Reference
• Understanding NUMA

Lesson 7 – Understanding vSphere Memory Management

By watching this lesson, you’ll learn the vSphere memory management techniques vSphere uses that help to make memory over commitment possible such as transparent page sharing (TPS), memory ballooning, hypervisor swapping, and the new vSphere 4.1 memory compression.

• Memory Management Overview
• Memory Over Commitment
• Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)
• Memory Ballooning
• Hypervisor Swapping
• Memory Compression

Lesson 8 – Understanding vSphere Storage Management

Gain understanding in how vSphere uses storage and the storage virtualization layers that are involved. We’ll cover storage performance factors, protocols (like iSCSI, NFS, and FC), the VMFS, and the new Storage I/O Control (SIOC) found in vSphere 4.1

• Storage Virtualization Overview
• Storage Performance Factors
• LUN and Storage Queuing
• Understanding Storage Protocol Options
• Understanding the VMFS
• Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

Lesson 9 – Understanding vSphere Network Management

Learn how vSphere uses virtual networks and what overhead is created. You’ll learn about the various virtual machine vNIC adapters that are available and how to choose the correct one. Additionally, you’ll learn about VMDirectPath, jumbo frames, TCP offload, and the new Network I/O Control (or NIOC), also new in vSphere 4.1

• Network Virtualization Overview
• What is I/O Virtualization Overhead?
• Understanding Virtual Network Adapters
• Choosing a Network Adapter for Your VM
• VMDirectPath
• Jumbo Frames
• TCP Offload
• Network I/O Control (NIOC)
• Virtual Machine Communications Interface (VMCI)

Lesson 10 – Understanding vSphere Resource Pools

In this lesson, learn what a resource pool is, how it differs from a cluster, and the terms you need to know when you begin using resource pools (reservations, limits, and shares).

• Resource Pool Defined
• Difference Between Resource Pools and Clusters
• Resource Pool Traits
• Reservations
• Limits
• Shares
• Creating Resource Pool and Defining Reservations, Limits, and Shares

Lesson 11 – Understanding vSphere Clusters

Find out the different types of cluster (DRS/DPM/HA), how they relate to resource pools, and watch as David creates a cluster, step by step.

• What is a vSphere Cluster?
• Types of Clusters
• Creating a Cluster

Lesson 12 – Tuning vSphere CPU Resources

Find out the metrics you must know to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere CPU performance. You’ll see how to use the vSphere client and esxtop to solve CPU performance problems – FAST.

• Viewing Physical and Virtual CPU Counts
• CPU Metrics You Must Know
• Monitoring CPU Metrics with the vSphere Client
• Monitoring CPU Metrics with esxtop
• 6 Ways to Solve CPU Performance Issues

Lesson 13 – Tuning vSphere Memory Resources

vSphere memory overcommitment is phenomenal but you can push it to its limits. Learn vSphere metrics like active, consumed, and granted memory as well as swapping and ballooning. Plus, watch how to solve vSphere memory issues in 6 steps.

• Analyzing Host and VM Memory
• Memory Metrics You Must Know
• Monitoring Memory Metrics with the vSphere Client
• Monitoring Memory Metrics with esxtop
• How You Know When Host Memory is the Problem
• How You Know When Guest Memory is the Problem
• 6 Ways to Solve Memory Performance Issues

Lesson 14 – Tuning vSphere Storage Resources

When your vSphere storage is performing optimal, vSphere VMs and applications will fly. However, poor storage performance can mean end user complains and a lot of pain for the VMware Admin. Watch this lesson to find out the critical storage performance metrics you must know, how to monitor them with the vSphere client & esxtop, and how storage I/O control (SIOC) can prevent storage bottlenecks.

• Critical Storage Performance Metrics
• Monitoring Storage Metrics with the vSphere Client
• Monitoring Storage Metrics with esxtop
• How Storage I/O Control (SIOC) Can Help
• 6 Ways to Solve Storage Performance Issues

Lesson 15 – Tuning vSphere Networking Resources

What vSphere networking performance metrics do you monitor and how do you use them to troubleshoot vNetwork performance? Find out the critical vSphere network metrics, how to view them with the vSphere Client and esxtop, and how network I/O control (NIOC) can help you.

• Speed and Duplex
• Critical Networking Performance Metrics
• Monitoring Network Metrics with the vSphere Client
• Monitoring Network Metrics with esxtop
• How You Know When the Network is the Problem
• How Network I/O Control (NIOC) Can Help
• 6 Ways to Solve Network Performance Issues

Lesson 16 – VM and Application Performance Tuning Overview

In this overview video, we’ll talk about the importance of physical vs virtual resources, understanding your application, measuring application response, and when you should (or should not) virtualize an application.

• Understanding Physical vs Virtual Resources
• Understanding Your Application
• Measuring Application Response
• When You Should or Shouldn’t Virtualize an Application

Lesson 17 – Properly Configuring a VM Guest

Properly configuring a virtual machine is just as important as configuring a host. In this lesson, learn how to size a virtual machine to ensure ideal performance, including CPU, RAM, and virtual devices, and more.

• Sizing VM Guest CPU, RAM, Disk, and Network
• Importance of the VMware Tools
• Installing VMware Tools
• Selecting the Right Guest OS
• Configuring Timekeeping on VMs
• Selecting Storage
• Aligning Partitions
• Disabling Unneeded Devices
• To SMP, or Not
• VMM Monitor Modes

Lesson 18 – Tuning VM Guest Memory

Managing vSphere virtual machine memory is one of the most critical pieces of vSphere performance. Learn how to size and tune VM guest memory to ensure that you don’t have undersized or oversized VMs.

• Viewing Which VMs Have Overprovisioned RAM
• How To Size VM Guest Memory
• Best Practices for VM Guest Memory

Lesson 19 – Cleaning Up a Windows VM After P2V Conversion

When converting from physical to virtual machines, you need to cleanup old device drivers and old physical server apps to ensure that you don’t end up hurting performance. Learn how to perform P2V cleanup and upgrade/downgrade your VM HAL.

• Why Cleaning Up After P2V is Important
• Steps You Should Take to Clean Up After P2V
• Resources to Assist in P2V Clean Up
• Using the VM Advanced ISO Toolset

Lesson 20 – Utilizing VM Guest Hot Add

vSphere has the ability to hot plug new virtual CPUs on running virtual machines and hot add RAM on running VMs. In this lesson, you’ll see how to dynamically add CPU and RAM to give virtual machines the resources that they need without downtime for end user applications.

• Adding, Modifying, and Removing Virtual Hardware
• Requirements to Use vSphere Hot Add / Hot Plug
• Using Hot Add to Add RAM to a VM
• Using Hot Plug to Add CPU to a VM

Lesson 21 – Using vSphere Alarms for Performance Monitoring

An important part of performance management is monitoring infrastructure performance. You don’t want overutilization to cause downtime for the end users! Watch this lesson to learn how to configure default and custom vSphere performance alarms.

• Alarms Overview
• Alarms vs. Events
• Configuring vSphere Performance Alarms
• Modifying a Default Alarm
• Configuring vCenter Server Mail Sender Settings
• Creating a New Alarm
• Testing Alarms

Lesson 22 – Advanced Performance Graphing with the vSphere Client

The vSphere client offers advanced performance graphing that is highly customizable. Learn about the multitude of vSphere performance counters available at just about every level of the virtual infrastructure, how to save your graphs for later use, and how to export your graphs to a graphic file or to Microsoft Excel.

• vSphere Performance Graphing Overview
• Controlling the Amount and Detail of Stored Performance Data
• Customizing Advanced Performance Graphs
• Saving and Exporting Performance Graphs

Lesson 23 – Advanced Performance Analysis with esxtop and resxtop

Learn how to use the best CLI-run vSphere Performance tool – esxtop. You’ll find out when to use esxtop vs resxtop, how to control esxtop columns, how to save your configuration, run esxtop in batch mode, and more!

• Overview of esxtop
• Differences Between esxtop and resxtop
• Controlling esxtop Columns and Fields
• Using esxtop Configuration Files
• Running esxtop in Batch Mode
• Common esxtop Scenarios
• esxtop Resources

Lesson 24 – Storage Performance Analysis with vscsiStats

Learn how to use this powerful CLI storage analysis tool, step by step, to show statistics like virtual storage latency. Plus, you’ll learn how to export the results to excel and create a chart them.

• Overview of vscsiStats
• Using vscsiStats, Step by Step
• Scenarios for vscsiStats
• Graphing vscsiStats with Excel
• To Learn More

Lesson 25 – VMware AppSpeed Quickstart

VMware’s AppSpeed delves into the performance of the actual applications running in the virtual infrastructure. In this lesson, David will show you how to install and get started with VMware’s application performance monitoring (APM) tool.

• AppSpeed Overview
• Scenarios Where AppSpeed Can Help
• AppSpeed Requirements and Installation
• Using AppSpeed

Lesson 26 – VMware Capacity IQ Quickstart

VMware’s Capacity IQ focuses on vSphere capacity analysis and planning. In this lesson, you’ll get an overview of how Capacity IQ helps as well as how to install it and get started using it to prevent capacity bottlenecks in your virtual infrastructure.

• Capacity IQ Overview
• Scenarios Where Capacity IQ Can Help
• Capacity IQ Requirements and Installation
• Using Capacity IQ

Lesson 27 – Distributed Resource Scheduler Overview

In this lesson, you’ll find out why DRS may work differently that you thought. You’ll tune-up your skills on creating and monitoring DRS clusters before we move into more advanced topics.

• Overview of Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Why Isn’t My VM Load Perfectly Balanced?
• Configuring DRS
• Creating DRS Cluster
• DRS Troubleshooting Tips
• Monitoring DRS
• My Favorite HA/DRS Book

Lesson 28 – DRS Automation, Affinity Rules, and EVC

There is more to DRS than just initial setup. From watching this lesson, you’ll understand the different DRS automation levels, how to properly configure DRS rules and groups, and how to enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC).

• Understanding DRS Automation
• DRS Groups and Affinity Rules
• New DRS Features in vSphere 4.1
• Understanding Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC)

Lesson 29 – Configuring and Using Distributed Power Management

Save your company tons of money by enabling Distributed Power Management (DPM). Besides the real cost savings, learn how to configure DPM, the DPM automation levels, DPM thresholds, and why you might opt to use per host DPM.

• Distributed Power Management (DPM) Overview
• Enabling and Configuring DPM
• Monitoring Power Utilization

Lesson 30 – vSphere Capacity Planning

Learn how to perform proper vSphere capacity planning so that the whole virtual infrastructure doesn’t grind to a halt. Find out the steps to perform successful capacity planning, the tools to use, how to use VMware Guided Consolidation, and how to predict host and VM capacity with performance charts.

• Why Perform Capacity Planning?
• Steps to Perform Successful Capacity Planning
• Tools Used in Capacity Planning
• Using VMware Guided Consolidation
• Configuring VMware Guided Consolidation
• Predicting Host and VM Capacity with Performance Charts
• Using vSphere Performance Charts for Capacity Planning

Lesson 31 – Using VMware vCenter Operations

The latest VMware performance tool is vCenter Operations. It is unique among other performance tools as focuses on collecting performance statistics and then alerts you to abnormal behavior of the virtual infrastructure. In this lesson, you’ll find out how to install it, configure it, and understand it’s workload, health, and capacity scores which you’ll use to troubleshoot vSphere performance.

• vCenter Operations Overview
• Requirements and Installation
• Terms: Workload, Health, and Capacity
• Downloading and Installing vCenter Operations
• Configuring vCenter Operations
• Using vCenter Operations

Lesson 32 – Using VKernel vOperations Suite

vKernel’s vOperations Suite (vOPS) is a third-party virtual appliance that performs capacity analysis, performance monitoring, and identifies under or overprovisioned virtual machines. This lesson will show you what it can do, how to download it, install it, and configure it.

• What is VKernel vOps?
• System Requirements
• Installation
• Using vOps for Capacity Planning

Lesson 33 – VMware’s Free ESXplot

VMware’s free ESXplot allows you to create graphs of esxtop exports in order to solve vSphere performance problems in the infrastructure. Learn how to get ESXplot up and running, export data from esxtop, view graphs in ESXplot, and export ESXplot graphs to a graphic file.

• What is ESXplot?
• Downloading and Installing ESXplot
• Exporting Data from ESXi Server Using esxtop
• Analyzing vSphere Stats From esxtop with ESXplot

Lesson 34 – VMware’s Free IOBlazer

A free performance tool from VMware, IOBlazer is used to analyze trace files from vscsiStats and perform storage modeling. Learn where to get it, how to export vscsiStats trace files, and analyze them with IOBlazer.

• What is IOBlazer?
• Downloading and Installing IOBlazer
• Analyzing vSphere Storage Stats From vscsiStats with IOBlazer

Lesson 35 – Veeam Monitor Free Edition

Veeam’s Monitor version 5 is an excellent vSphere performance monitoring and alerting third-party product, offered in a completely free version. Learn how to obtain the free version, install it in a VM, link it to vCenter, and view the critical performance metrics at every level of the virtual infrastructure.

• How Can Veeam Monitor Free Help You?
• Veeam Monitor Free vs. Full
• Downloading and Installing Veeam Monitor Free Edition
• 5 Critical Performance Stats, Analyzed with Veeam Monitor

Lesson 36 – Xangati for ESX Free Edition

No other performance tool offers insight to the vSphere virtual network like Xangati does. Xangati combines traditional vCenter performance metrics with realtime traffic monitoring of the virtual network to provide you a powerful vSphere performance troubleshooting tool. Thankfully, there is a free version of Xangati that David will show you how to install and use in this lesson.

• What Makes Xangati Unique?
• Downloading and Installing Xangati for ESX
• Configuring Xangati
• Virtual Network Analysis with Xangati

Lesson 37 – Using vKernel’s Free Performance Tools

vKernel offers four different free vSphere performance tools. Learn how to use ApplicationView, CapacityView, StorageView, and Capacity Modeler. You’ll gain extensive knowledge on how to get Capacity Modeler up and running then use it to perform “what if” vSphere capacity modeling scenarios.

• Four Free Performance Tools From vKernel
• Exploring VMs Utilization with ApplicationView
• vSphere Performance Overview with CapacityView
• Analyze Storage Latency with StorageVie
• Predicting vSphere Capacity with Capacity Modeler

Lesson 38 – XtraVirt’s Free vAlarm

One of David’s recommended must-have free tools is vAlarm because it alerts you to alarms in the virtual infrastructure, on your Windows desktop, without having to individually configure the 42 default alarms, individually.

• What is vAlarm?
• Downloading and Installing vAlarm
• vSphere Alarms in Windows with vAlarm

Lesson 39 – VMware Guest Console (Free)

Learn how to use the free vSphere guest VM management tool that David calls “a must-have tool for VMware Admins”. VGC allows you to administer guest VM state, access the console, manage processes across all VMs, access file systems of all VMs, and manage snapshots.

• Overview of Free VMware Guest Console (VGC)
• Downloading and Installing VGC
• Analyzing VM Inventory, Processes, Snapshots, and More

Lesson 40 – Next Steps

After completing this vSphere Performance course, David gives advice on where to go next. Whether you want to practice what you have learned in this course, read more online, or find out how to prepare for the VCAP-DCA, you’ll know the next step after watching this lesson.

• What We Learned
• Next Steps for Learning
• Next Steps for VCP or VCAP Certification
• Feedback

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A great resource for the VCAP-DCA or for any VMware Admin, the new vSphere PowerCLI video training course from Train Signal and vExpert Hal Rottenberg is RELEASED!

In this 11 hour training course, Hal focuses in on the topics covered in section 8 of the VCAP-DCA blueprint. When you purchase the course you can watch it immediately online (which is iPad compatible) and you will receive the physical DVDs in the mail so that you catch watch it offline or on a portable device (like an iPhone, iPad, or other).

I have personally watched this course and I can tell you that Hal is an excellent instructor. Besides this course, Hal is the author of a PowerCLI book and two other Train Signal video training courses. He was awarded the elite vExpert award by VMware for his work evangelizing PowerCLI.

This is truly the best way to learn PowerCLI!

For a limited time, every customer who purchases the new PowerCLI course will receive a full size PowerCLI poster that shows and explains the most command PowerCLI cmdlets – perfect for hanging on the wall! (thank you VMware for the posters!)

Review the course outline and watch a sample from the course on the Train Signal vSphere PowerCLI training product page

Below, you’ll find a quick demo from the course (I promise it gets much more advanced than this). You can view the full topic list and visit the course homepage here: Train Signal vSphere PowerCLI Video Training.

The course is nearly 18 hours long and is currently distributed on 3 DVDs that are shipped to your office or home. On that DVD, besides the high quality AVI version, the course will also be included in WMV, MP3, and iPod/iPhone formats. In fact, I had even more videos that wouldn’t fit on those DVDs and we will soon be making those available to be viewed, streaming, over the Internet!

In this course I cover topics these:

• VCP and VCDX Certifications
• Introduction to Virtualization
• Virtualization Product Compared
• VMware ESXi Free Edition for the SMB
• VMware vSphere 4 and ESX Essentials
• vSphere Management Options
• Installing the vSphere Client
• Navigating vSphere using the vSphere Client
• Running VMware ESX 4 in Workstation
• Installing VMware ESX 4
• Installing VMware ESXi 4
• Installing VMware vCenter 4
• vCenter 4 – Configuring your new virtual infrastructure
• Creating and Modifying Virtual Guest Machines
• Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
• Adding Virtual Machine Hardware with vSphere Hot Plug
• Using vSphere Host Profiles
• Administering VMware ESX Server Security
• Introduction to and Installing VMware Data Recovery (VDR)
• Backup and Restore with VMware Data Recovery (VDR)
• Virtual Storage 101 and Storage Terminology
• Configuring vSphere Storage
• Creating a Free iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
• vSphere Virtual Networking
• Using the vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (dvswitch)
• Understanding and Using Tasks, Events, and Alarms
• Performance Optimization in VMware vSphere
• Upgrading from VMware ESX 3.x and Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 4
• Moving Virtual Machines with VMotion
• Moving Virtual Storage with SVMotion
• Load Balancing with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Implementing High Availability with VMware HA (VMHA)
• Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

Checkout a free demo of the course and learn more at….

Train Signal.com – VMware vSphere video training course

If you aren’t familiar with Train Signal, they are the global leader in computer training for IT Professionals. Their VMware training course covers not only ESX/ESXi 3.5 but also the entire Virtual Infrastructure Suite.

Learn what Train Signal’s VMware ESX video training offers you in this new video:

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Visit the homepage for my VMware ESX Server video training course to view another 7 minute video on how Storage VMotion (SVMotion) works in VMware ESX

Train Signal VMware ESX Server Video Training Course

This just in – Train Signal Computer Training – the global leader in computer training for IT Pros – will announce an updated VMware ESX Server 3.5 training course available just in time for VMworld 2008 (middle of September). The new course will offer updated videos covering the latest and greatest features of VMware ESX Server 3.5 and the updated Virtual Infrastructure Suite.

This 15+ hour ESX Server training course is the best way to learn ESX Server because you can learn at your own pace and learn at for about 10% the cost of classroom training.

To learn more about the ESX Server video training course, visit www.TrainSignal.com

What I recommend to you instead is one of these two options:

1. My FREE Introduction to Virtualization video training course OR,
2. My vSphere 5 video training course from TrainSignal

If you have questions about virtualization training, feel free to ask me on my Contact page.

Thanks!

-David Davis

To create this video training, I spent 3 months researching VMware Workstation & Server. I made every effort cover the VMware products from all aspects including designing, installing, creating virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, backups, and performance tuning. Once we covered Server & Workstation, we moved on to our VMware ESX Server overview and our bonus video, VMware ACE.

To create this video training, I spent 3 months researching VMware ESX Server and the Virtual Infrastructure Suite. I made every effort cover the VMware ESX Server applications from all aspects including designing, installing, creating virtual machines, virtual networks, SAN storage, VCB backups, and performance tuning. Our VMware ESX Server Training is your complete video guide to mastering VMware ESX Server and
Virtual Infrastructure. You get:

– 15+ Hours of instructor led Video training covering VMware ESX Server that you can watch over and over again.
– Master VMware ESX Server and save yourself time and your company money!
– Coverage includes VMware ESX Server configuration, VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware

 CLICK HERE TO VIEW A DEMO OF THIS VIDEO!