Section I. Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• The Virtualization Environment
• Virtual Infrastructure Components

Section II. ESX Server Installation

• Creating a plan
• The ESX Server set-up  

Section III. Networking  the ESX

• Configuring of virtual switches
• Network Connections
• Port Groups  

Section IV. Storage

• Storage alternatives and priorities
• Storage management technologies  

Section V. VirtualCenter Installation

• VirtualCenter Attributes
• Set-up of VirtualCenter Components  

Section VI. VM Creation and Management

• Using of templates
• Using VMWare Converter Enterprise
• Managing using VMWare VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Using Guided Consolidation  

Section VII. Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• Determining security/access requirements
• Controlling Administrator rights  

Section VIII. Resource Management

• VMotino migrations
• Resource Pools set-up
• VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory and other resources  

Section IX.  Resource Monitoring

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter  

Section X. Data and Availability Protection

• Backup strategies
• VMware High Availability (HA) Set-up  

Section XI. Planning VI Deployment

• Establishing deployment guidelines
• Best Practices for a basic deployment