VMware announced a new training course called “VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1]“.

This course can be followed by attending a classroom, live online or onsite. The course lasts 2 days and it’s available through myLearn training.

This course is intended for the following audience:

• System administrators
• IT managers
• System architects
• People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments

Overview

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.1. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5.1 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.1.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several advanced vSphere 5.1 courses. Go to http://www.vmware.com/education for advanced course options.

Objectives

• List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.1
• Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1
• Use the VMware vSphere® Web Client to manage virtual machines
• List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
• Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere® VMFS-5 datastore
• Understand and configure policy-driven storage
• Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
• Live migration of a virtual machine without shared storage
• Secure the virtual machines using VMware® vShield Endpoint™ (now included in base vSphere product)
• Backup and recover a vSphere environment using vSphere Data Protection
• Replicate vSphere for SRM deployments using vSphere Replication
• Use new displays to monitor VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster activity
• Use the Linux-based VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
• Use Auto Deploy to install a stateless or stateful ESXi host
• Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile

Prerequisites

Attendance at one of these VMware
vSphere 4 courses:

• Install, Configure, Manage
• Fast Track
• What’s New

Or equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience