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:

Click here to  watch a sample video or to order your very own VMware ESX Server training course!

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

I downloaded the, roughly, 50MB ZIP file and was impressed when I ran the autorun at the quality of the video presentation. Here is what it looked like:

I think that it is great that VMware is offering this free and quality video training for VMware Server 1.0. I hope that they can soon offer similar training for the new VMware Server 2.0 (no pressure Jason).

While the videos are a great introduction to VMware Server, if you are looking for a much more in depth video training course covering VMware Server & Workstation, I hope you will checkout my 13+ hour VMware Server & Workstation video training series. You can see the full course details at that link.

I want to offer special thanks to Jason Eden for pointing this free VMware Server training out to me!

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!