Overview/Description vCenter Server provides a centralized management framework for VMware ESXi hosts, but it's vSphere Client where vSphere administrators will spend most of their time. vSphere Client is a Windows-based application that allows you to manage ESXi hosts, either directly, or through an instance of vCenter Server. vSphere Client provides a rich graphical user interface (GUI) for all day-to-day management tasks and for the advanced configuration of a virtual infrastructure. While you can connect vSphere Client either directly to an ESXi host or to an instance of vCenter Server,...

Overview/Description High Availability (HA) is a popular feature within vSphere. In many cases, the lack of High Availability is the key argument used against virtualization. Many IT professionals believe that in a virtualized environment, the failure of a physical server will affect all the applications and workloads running on that server at the same time. VMware addresses this concern with a feature present in ESXi clusters: vSphere HA. In the event of complete server failure, vSphere HA provides an automated process for restarting the VMs that were running on an ESXi host at a time of the...

Overview/Description vCenter Server provides some useful new features for monitoring your VMs and hosts. Expanded performance views and charts, and increased numbers and types of alarms available by default make it much easier to manage and monitor VMware vSphere performance and ensures that the administrator is not caught unaware of performance issues or lack of capacity. The monitoring of VMware vSphere should be a combination of proactive benchmarking and reactive alarm-based actions and vCenter Server provides both methods to help the administrator keep tabs on each of the VMs and hosts...

Overview/Description In addition to securing against external threats you must also work to mitigate threats against the internal network components such as vLANs, switches, and iSCSI traffic within your vSphere Environment. This course describes how to protect internal components using ESXi Shell, Security Profiles. Firewalls, Lockdown mode, and encryption. Often times, the first time that you connect to a vCenter Server instance, you receive a Security Warning dialog box.This security warning appears because the vSphere Client uses HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) to connect to...