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This hands-on VMware® vSphere™ training course equips system administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a highly available VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure.

Highlights

• Components of business continuity
• Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 cluster configurations
• Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster using non-default options
• Deploy fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Deploy VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat

Course Outline

1. Business Continuity

• vSphere features for high availability, fault tolerance, data protection, and disaster recovery

2. Virtual Machine Clustering

• vSphere general requirements for Microsoft failover clusters
• Supported Microsoft failover cluster configurations

3. VMware High Availability Clusters

• VMware HA advanced parameters affecting slot size
• Deploying different admission control policies
• Configuring redundant heartbeat networks and isolation test addresses

4. VMware Fault Tolerance

• FT prerequisites and FT operation
• FT best practices
• Configuring, monitoring, and testing a fault-tolerant virtual machine

5. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

• vCenter Server Heartbeat operation
• Installing and configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
• Failover and switchover with vCenter Server

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