VMware vSphere 4: Configuring

—Introduction 0m 35s
—Why You Should Use the VMware Tools 4m 4s
—Installing the VMware Tools in Linux 14m 0s
—Verifying VMware Tools Installation 1m 57s
—Running VMware Toolbox in Linux 2m 23s
—Updating VMware Tools 1m 47s
—Installing the VMware Tools in Windows 5m 19s
—Configuring VMware Tools with VMware Toolbox 3m 58s
—Checking Whether VMware Tools are Installed 2m 56s
—What We Covered 2m 4s

—Introduction 0m 43s
—Adding, Modifying, and Removing Virtual Hardware 4m 14s
—What Are the Requirements to Use vSphere Hot Add/Hot Plug? 4m 16s
—Using Hot Add to Add RAM to a Virtual Machine 1m 38s
—Using Hot Plug to Add CPU to a Virtual Machine 2m 8s
—Using Hot Add and Hot Plug without a Reboot 5m 38s
—Adding a 2nd Virtual Disk to a Running Virtual Machine 3m 57s
—Expanding a Virtual Disk on a Running Virtual Machine 2m 8s
—What We Covered 1m 18s

—Introduction 0m 41s
—Standardizing ESX Server Configuration with vSphere Host Profiles 0m 56s
—5 Steps to Using Host Profiles 1m 52s
—Creating and Editing Host Profiles 2m 21s
—Checking Compliance 4m 15s
—Applying Host Profiles to Servers and Clusters 2m 48s
—Another Way of Checking Compliance 1m 47s
—What We Covered 0m 41s

—Introduction 1m 0s
—Basics of vSphere Security 6m 47s
—VMsafe and vShield Overview 3m 51s
—Default vSphere Security Roles 1m 54s
—Adding, Modifying, and Removing ESX Users and Groups 10m 52s
—Using Windows AD Users and Groups to Secure vSphere 6m 42s
—Using AD to Give Specific Access 6m 43s
—Defining and Applying Roles and Permissions 5m 49s
—Creating Custom Role 2m 57s
—Allowing Root Login via SSH 3m 54s
—Securing Guest Virtual Machines 2m 43s
—What We Covered 1m 25s

—Introduction 0m 27s
—The vShield Zones Browser Interface 4m 46s
—Introduction to vShield Zones 2m 43s
—What Does vShield Offer You? 1m 55s
—Downloading vShield Zones 3m 1s
—Installing vShield Zones 2m 28s
—Deploying vShield Manager and vShields 4m 39s
—Configuring vShield Manager 3m 1s
—Deploying a vShield and Converting it to a VM Template 3m 4s
—Connecting vShield Manager to vCenter Server 2m 51s
—Deploying the vShield Template 9m 37s
—What We Covered 2m 31s

—Introduction 0m 35s
—What is VMware Data Recovery (VDR)? 1m 38s
—Why Do I Need VDR? 2m 56s
—How Do I Get Data Recovery? 1m 0s
—What Are the Benefits of Using VDR? 4m 13s
—What Are the Limitations of VDR? 1m 14s
—How Does VDR Work? 1m 48s
—Installing VMware Data Recovery 6m 13s
—Configuring VDR Appliance 2m 51s
—Installing VDR Plug-In 1m 38s
—Connecting VDR Appliance to VMware vCenter 3m 59s
—What We Covered 2m 37s

—Introduction 0m 45s
—Creating a Backup Destination - Local 6m 22s
—Adding Network Share 2m 11s
—Creating a VDR Backup Job 9m 25s
—Gotchas of VMware Data Recovery 5m 14s
—Checking Backup Job Status 4m 45s
—Recovering/Restoring an ESX Guest VM 7m 5s
—What We Covered 1m 3s

—Introduction 0m 57s
—Storage 101 4m 32s
—Storage Area Networks 101 3m 38s
—Understanding iSCSI Storage 6m 26s
—Why You Need a Storage Area Networks (SAN) 3m 29s
—Storage Terms You Must Know 4m 21s
—What Is In a Database 1m 3s
—ESX Server Storage Options 1m 18s
—VMFS Specs and Maximums 1m 35s
—What We Covered 0m 50s

—Introduction 1m 2s
—New vSphere Datastore Inventory 2m 21s
—Datastore Maps 0m 56s
—Datastore Performance 1m 57s
—Datastore Configuration Tab 4m 1s
—Datastore Tasks, Events, Alarms, and Permissions 1m 39s
—Database Storage Views 3m 13s
—Thin Provisioning for Fun and Profit 4m 20s
—Creating New Virtual Machine with Thin Provision Disk 1m 31s
—Finding out Disk Provision on an Existing Disk 0m 32s
—Converting Thick Provision Disk to Thin Provision Disk 3m 30s
—Storage Views in Relation to Thin Provisioning 3m 55s
—Configure an Alarm to Prevent Overprovision 9m 20s
—Digging Into Datastores 5m 14s
—Taking and Using vSphere Snapshots 5m 26s
—Creating and Deleting Snapshots 3m 28s
—What We Covered 2m 7s

—Introduction 0m 43s
—OpenFiler Can 'Open' Your Eyes to a SAN 2m 3s
—Free SAN for All - Downloading OpenFiler 1m 29s
—Installing OpenFiler 8m 30s
—Configuring OpenFiler as Our iSCSI SAN 8m 26s
—Configuring iSCSI in vSphere 4 5m 19s
—Creating a New Datastore for Our New Connection 4m 19s
—What We Covered 0m 54s

—Introduction 1m 27s
—vNetwork Overview 1m 25s
—New vNetwork Features in vSphere 4m 59s
—vNetwork Terms - vmnic, vswitch, vswif, and Port Group 4m 55s
—vNetwork Configuration Scenarios - Single NIC 1m 17s
—vNetwork Configuration Scenarios - Private/Host Only 5m 33s
—vNetwork Configuration Scenarios - Multiple NICs 3m 9s
—Using VLANs with vSphere 4m 14s
—Viewing Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Stats 2m 23s
—Configuring vNetworks and vSwitches 0m 42s
—Moving Linux Servers to New VM Network 2m 44s
—Providing ESX3 with Network Redundancy and Load Balancing 4m 41s
—Checking Out Network Traffic Shaping and Security Options 2m 35s
—CLI Network Troubleshooting Commands 5m 19s
—Best Practices for vSphere Networking 1m 32s
—What We Covered 2m 53s

—Introduction 0m 46s
—Introduction to the vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) 3m 47s
—vSphere Standard Switch vs. Distributed Virtual Switch 2m 44s
—Benefits of the Distributed Virtual Switch 0m 52s
—Creating a New dvSwitch and Adding Hosts and vmnics to dvSwitch 4m 55s
—Creating a dvport Group 1m 52s
—Migrating Single Virtual Machine 2m 48s
—Migrating Legacy vSwitches and VM Networkds to dvSwitch 1m 54s
—Migrating Virtual Adaptors (SC and VMKernel) to dvSwitch 6m 16s
—Viewing dvSwitch Mapping, Adv Conf, and Alarms 8m 12s
—What We Covered 1m 25s