VMware vSphere 4: Advanced Fast Track (VAFT)

This course is part of the following certification(s):

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration (VCAP4-DCA)

Completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere 4.1: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: What’s New

Or equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

At the end of the course, you will be able to do the following:

• Use vSphere tools to monitor the performance of VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts
• Diagnose performance problems relating to CPU, memory, network, and storage on an ESX/ESXi host
• Apply guidelines for monitoring application performance
• Use the VMware vSphere Client and command-line utilities to diagnose and rectify ESX/ESXi, VMware vMotion™, VMware Storage vMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, and virtual machine power-on problems
• Use ESXi technical support mode to diagnose and rectify problems on ESXi
• Create and use a network packet capture utility to capture and display virtual switch network traffic

This fast-paced, extended-hour, lab-intensive course includes the content of the VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance and VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting courses. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to make fundamental design decisions that enhance performance and meet performance goals in a deployed VMware vSphere™ installation. This course also provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the vSphere virtual infrastructure.

This course includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 – Datacenter Administrator examination.