By combining lecture and hands-on lab sessions, this course will help you gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines. After completing this course, you may enroll in advanced vSphere courses. For advanced vSphere course options, go to http://www.vmware.com/education.

By the end of the course, you should be able to decide the career path that you want to pursue, whether a sales role, a pre-sales technical role, or a fully technical role. In addition, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization
• Deploy, configure, clone, and manage virtual machines
• Use VMware vCenter Server® to monitor virtual machine resource usage
• Use VMware vSphere® vApps™ to bundle and manage multiple interoperating virtual machines and software applications
• Use VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machines
• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere® High Availability to optimize the performance of your vSphere virtual environment
• Identify the features of VMware cloud products