Contents
PART I: Building a VMware vSphere Environment
Chapter 1: Introduction to vSphere
Understand the Legacy Features of vSphere
Understand the New Features of vSphere
Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring ESXi
Configure Post-Install Options
Chapter 3: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server
Prepare and Install vCenter Server
Chapter 4: Understanding Licensing
Become Familiar with VMware Licensing
Chapter 5: Upgrading to vSphere 5
PART II: Configuring Your vSphere Environment
Chapter 6: Creating and Managing Virtual Networking
Network with vSphere Distributed Switches
Understand Advanced Networking
Chapter 7: Configuring and Managing Storage
Become Familiar with Storage Concepts
Configure Fibre Channel SAN Storage
Chapter 8: High Availability and Business Continuity
Chapter 9: Managing Virtual Machines
Manage Virtual Machine Hardware Versions
Perform Other Virtual Machine Management Tasks
Chapter 10: Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines
Understand the Migration Process
Perform a Physical-to-Virtual Migration
Perform a Virtual-to-Virtual Migration
Import an Open Virtualization Format Template
Chapter 11: Configuring Security
Configure vCenter Server Access Control
Secure Your ESXi and ESXi Hosts
Chapter 12: Managing Resources and Performance
Understand Resource Allocation