VMware ESX Server: Configuring

—Introduction 2m 3s
—Storage Terminology 7m 15s
—How Does Datastore Help You? 2m 28s
—VMware ESX Storage Options 2m 45s
—What is a VMFS Virtual Disk? 2m 30s
—Larger vs. Smaller VMFS Volumes 2m 21s
—Advantages of Virtual Disks 2m 19s
—Understanding Local Disk Storage 2m 46s
—Fibre Channel (FC) SAN Storage 6m 51s
—iSCSI SAN Storage 5m 23s
—iSCSI Addressing 1m 25s
—NAS NFS Storage 1m 19s
—Comparing Local, iSCSI, FC, and NFS 4m 34s
—Guest OS Disk Adaptor Types 4m 8s
—Snapshots 3m 21s
—VMware ESX Disk Types and Disk Modes 4m 47s
—VMware's Virtual Disk Manager Utility - vmkfstools 3m 37s
—Aligning your VMware ESX Partitions 1m 37s
—Expanding your Guest OS Virtual Disk 3m 21s
—Configuring the Clock, Time zone, NTP Time Synchronization 13m 22s
—Configuring ESX to Work with OpenFiler iSCSI SAN Server 4m 58s
—Configure the OpenFiler Server 8m 42s
—Configure the VMware ESX Server 17m 31s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 3m 40s

—Introduction 0m 48s
—Concepts of ESX Security Design 17m 57s
—Default ESX Security Management Roles 2m 4s
—Ports used by VMware ESX and Virtual Center 4m 10s
—Enabling SSH CLI Access to ESX 7m 10s
—Securing the Command Line Interface 1m 35s
—Securing Guest Virtual Machines 4m 12s
—Scenario - Configuring ESX Server 0m 36s
—Create Administrator Groups and the Machines they Administer 13m 16s
—Test if the Groups Work as Intended 1m 50s
—Set the Help-Desk Group Role 11m 50s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 3m 40s

—Introduction 0m 48s
—Configure E-mail for your Virtual Center Server 5m 33s
—Configure Alarms for Virtual DataCenters and Guests 12m 15s
—Exploring Maps of your Virtual Infrastructure 6m 24s
—Understanding Tasks and Events 8m 20s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 1m 44s

—Introduction 1m 13s
—Virtual Networking Overview 2m 1s
—Virtual Networking Terms 5m 41s
—Network Diagram 5m 3s
—Virtual Networking Must-Knows 3m 56s
— Different Configuration Scenarios 2m 23s
—Single NIC 1m 5s
—Multiple NICs 1m 27s
—Virtual DMZ / Firewall Network 3m 4s
—Wired Brain's Configuration 16m 40s
—Using VLANs with ESX 8m 10s
—Service Console Command Line Networking Tools 9m 35s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m 11s

—Introduction 0m 45s
—Templates 8m 46s
—Cloning Virtual Machines 7m 5s
—Migrating VM from One ESX Server to Another 8m 32s
—Migrating - V2V and P2V 1m 56s
—VMware Converter 7m 56s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 1m 57s

—Introduction 0m 34s
—Common VMware ESX Server Issues 11m 54s
—Things to Check when Troubleshooting ESX 2m 28s
—Resources for ESX Troubleshooting Assistance 1m 39s
—VMware Support Script 1m 13s
—Updating and Patching VMware ESX Server 8m 21s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m 1s

—Introduction 0m 39s
—What is Update Manager? 1m 55s
—How Can Update Manager Help You? 3m 39s
—What Can Update Manager Update for You? 3m 2s
—How Does Update Manager Work? 2m 25s
—How to Install VMware Update Manager 2m 26s
—Components of VMware Update Manager 1m 43s
—Verifying Install of the Update Manager Service 1m 59s
—Installing the Update Manager Plug-In 2m 2s
—Configuring and Using Update Manager 10m 4s
—What We Covered 1m 21s

—Introduction 0m 49s
—Upgrading VMware ESX from Version 3.0.x to 3.5 5m 1s
—Upgrading VMware VI Client from 1.x to 2.5 5m 15s
—Upgrading Virtual Center from Version 1.x to 2.5 7m 19s
—What We Covered 0m 8s

—Introduction 0m 55s
—Select the Right Hardware 4m 27s
—Performance Optimization Recommendations 5m 47s
—Optimizing Memory 4m 9s
—Optimizing the CPU 3m 26s
—How VMware ESX Server Hosts Reclaim Memory 2m 25s
—Review of VMware ESX Performance Monitoring Tools 6m 38s
—VMotion Overview 4m 38s
—ESX Resource Pools 4m 2s
—ESX Clusters Overview 2m 21s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m 18s

—Introduction 0m 44s
—Scenario 1m 10s
—Configuring VMotion 20m 56s
—Configuring Resource Pools 3m 58s
—Distributed Resource Schedule and VM High Availability Clusters 17m 42s
—What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m 51s