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

That’s right, it’s Scott Lowe’s new Mastering VMware vSphere 4! If vSphere had a “bible”, this would be it. Scott covers vSphere from every direction and by the time you are done reading it, I am sure that you will be a “master” (certainly some hands-on practice of the stuff in the book would help).

In case you don’t know Scott (where have you been?), you can learn more about him on his blog and on Twitter at @scott_lowe

I am going to start reading it now and you should do the same!

To ORDER, visit Amazon.com Mastering VMware vSphere

If you haven’t seen it, I encourage you to take a look at Deploying VMware Infrastructure. You can buy it online at one of my favorite online bookstores – DigitalGuru (there are other choices besides that other “big online bookstore”).