SPL13 - VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4 Upgrade
The VI3 to vSphere 4 upgrade lab allows attendees to get hands on with a VI3 to vSphere upgrade. Learn the tricks with us on upgrading ESX4, vCenter 4, Distributed Virtual Switches, Host Upgrade Utility or Update Manager and much more, all at your own speed!

SPL14 - VMware vSphere 4 Base Install
VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of the industry's first cloud computing operating system to their IT infrastructures. Building on the power of VMware Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures through service level automation while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware. In this self-paced lab participants will step through a base install of VMware vSphere 4.0 to include: install and configure of: ESX, vCenter, vSphere Client, vCenter Guided Consolidation Service, vCenter Update Manager, vCenter Converter and vCenter Client Plugins.

SPL15 - VMware View Base Install & Config
The VMware View portfolio of products lets IT run virtual desktops in the datacenter while giving end users a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location. Get greater flexibility, reliability, efficiency and security managing desktops and applications from the datacenter.

SPL16 - VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Basic Install & Config
Site Recovery Manager provides a VirtualCenter integrated end-to-end disaster recovery solution for a company's virtual infrastructure. In this lab, we will perform the key steps required to install, configure, and test VMware's Site Recovery Manager. These steps include establishing a trust relationship between primary and recovery sites, installation and configuration of array replication adapters, building a protection group and a recovery plan, and executing a disaster recovery test.

SPL17 - VMware vCenter Converter
VMware vCenter Converter is a highly robust and scalable enterprise-class migration tool that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines, other virtual machine formats and third-party image formats. Through an intuitive wizard driven interface and a centralized management console, VMware vCenter Converter can quickly and reliably convert multiple local and remote physical machines-without any disruptions or downtime.

SPL18 - VMware vCenter Data Recovery
Many backup products write their data to tape, which is great for long-term archiving but it's often difficult and time-consuming for rapid data recovery. VMware Data Recovery protects against data loss in a virtual environment by enabling rapid backup and restore from disk. This self-paced lab is designed to provide hands on experience to the system administrators responsible for the backup and recovery strategy for a virtual environment. Students will learn what components make up the Data Recovery product, receive hands on experience with installation and configuration, and develop complete backup and restore operations in a vSphere environment. In addition to having the opportunity to use Data Recovery, students will also learn how the tool fits in to an environment that may have both virtual and physical backup and restore requirements and how these requirements are affected by existing VMWare Consolidated Backup solutions.

SPL19 - VMware ThinApp
Lab participants will learn how to use VMware ThinApp, a 100% agent-less application virtualization solution, to eliminate application conflicts by packaging an entire application, its dependencies, and its settings into a single-file executable that is isolated from the OS and can be distributed across platforms without installation. At the completion of the lab, participants will have an understanding of advanced packaging, application linking (working with dependencies), and application syncing (updating deployed apps) techniques as well as a general understanding of deployment considerations for both physical and virtual environments.

SPL20 - VMware Fusion
Attendees will gain hands-on experience with the next version of VMware Fusion. Designed from the ground up for the Mac user, VMware Fusion provides the security, flexibility, and portability of virtual machines smoothly integrated into the Mac OS X user experience. The next generation of Fusion offers these exciting new features: Improved 3D Graphics support, improved unity mode, the Migration Assistant to easily turn a Windows PC into a virtual machine; automatic updates, Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" host and guest support.

SPL21 - VMware View Experience
This lab will give attendees a hands-on look at the newest features from VMware View. Built on the industry-leading virtualization platform, VMware View is a Universal Client solution that lets you streamline desktop and application management, reduces costs and increases data security through centralization, resulting in greater end-user flexibility and IT control. Attendees will have a chance to explore View and its capabilities including automated desktop provisioning and advanced virtual desktop image management.

SPL22 - VMware vCenter Orchestrator
As VMware vSphere 4 broadens the scope of systems and applications that can be virtualized, this implies an increase in manual tasks by the VMware administrator/s. The goal of this lab is to demonstrate the ease of automating manual vCenter tasks via Orchestrator. This Lab utilizes a pre-configured pod which includes a pristine VMware vSphere 4 environment with Orchestrator. Leveraging the Orchestrator plug-in in vCenter, lab users will automate several vCenter tasks via workflows that they create.

SPL23 - VMware vSphere Virtual Networking Fundamentals
In this lab, attendees will learn the basics of virtual networking and migrate an ESX standard virtual switch environment to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) or Cisco Nexus 1000V environment. Once migrated, attendees will get to tailor their vDS through the vSphere Client, or the Nexus 1000V through the NX-OS command line interface. Finally, they will be able to test their configuration by migrating a VM with VMware VMotion.

LAB01 - VMware vSphere 4 - New Features, Best of, Advanced Topics
A virtual tour through VMware's enterprise virtualization suite. Walk through a guided tour of the User Interface, and then upgrade a server from VMware Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 4. Finally, create and associate a host profile, create a distributed virtual switch, and configure a virtual machine to use Fault Tolerance.

LAB02 - VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Advanced Operations
You already have SRM installed! What do you need to know now? This lab will cover off troubleshooting, advanced networking for testing, DNS management, log reading and more. Attendees will walk away with knowledge about troubleshooting and using some of the advanced features of SRM.

LAB03 - VMware View Advanced Config & Troubleshooting
The VMware View Advanced Troubleshooting Hands-On Lab is geared to giving IT staff the knowledge and tools necessary for identifying & resolving common issues encountered when deploying VMware View 3. This session will specifically provide steps towards troubleshooting installation & configuration issues, View Composer log diagnosis, ADAM database backup & recovery, USB connectivity troubleshooting, & ThinPrint .print engine troubleshooting.

LAB04 - VMware vSphere 4 - Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
The Performance Troubleshooting and Analysis lab will introduce participants to the tools VMware provides with vSphere that help manage performance and correct performance problems. The lab contains sections that focus on resource-based analysis of virtual deployments under simulated load. Attendees can expect to use vCenter, esxtop, and vscsiStats to identify and troubleshoot performance issues related to: Improperly configured storage, aggressively over-committed memory, heavy use of SMP virtual machines and other memory, CPU, storage, network, guest OS, and application issues.

LAB05 - VMware vSphere 4 - Security Hardening & Best Practices (vShield Zones)
The VMworld 2009 Security lab will focus on another use case much like last year. For those that attended the VMworld 2008 Security lab we will again explore the concept of security zone segmentation within the virtual environment. Although, unlike last year, this year's focus will be on providing segmentation with the vShield Zones Firewall Virtual Appliance along with the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, 802.1Q VLANs, and some of the new role based access controls to create a datacenter in a box with two security zones and an outside network.

LAB06 - VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Learn how to protect your VMware vCenter Server when vCenter is threatened by planned or unplanned downtime. With vCenter Server Heartbeat your vCenter can be configured for a physical to virtual, physical to physical, virtual to virtual or virtual to physical failover across the LAN or WAN. Attendees will also learn how vCenter Server Heartbeat can provide server protection, network protection, application protection, performance protection and data protection for their production vCenter Server. In this lab, attendees will gain hands on experience configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat to ensure resilience of vCenter Server in a virtual to virtual LAN architecture.

LAB07 - VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4
In this hands-on lab, attendees will configure and manage a VMware Lab Manager environment to create and manage groups of virtual machines. Using Linked Clone technology, attendees will become familiar with the speed & ease with which you can duplicate, test, share and manage virtual machines in a thin provisioned VM environment.

LAB08 - VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
CapacityIQ is a capacity management solution for VMware vCenter which enables users to analyze, forecast, and plan capacity needs of their virtual datacenter. In this lab, attendees will use CapacityIQ to gain visibility into available capacity of a virtual environment. They will utilize CapacityIQ to efficiently use the existing capacity of an environment and to identify and reclaim unused or over provisioned capacity. Finally, attendees will leverage CapacityIQ on What-If scenarios to predict future needs of a virtual infrastructure.

LAB09 - VMware vCenter AppSpeed
vCenter AppSpeed is a new addition to the vCenter suite of management products. AppSpeed provides proactive performance management and service-level reporting for applications. In this lab, attendees will get a chance to install and use AppSpeed. They will experience the automated distributed installation of it, as well as the product's automated learning capability, as the components of a multi-tier app are discovered by the system. They will use the product's various views and drill down capabilities to investigate a performance problem encountered by the multi-tier app, and drive to a resolution of the problem encountered. In addition to this they will learn how AppSpeed handles SLA monitoring for applications. The users will come out of the session with the skills required to deploy and use the product in their environment.

LAB10 - VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
In this hands-on lab, attendees will configure and manage a VMware Lifecycle Manager vSphere environment to request, approve, commission, change and decommission virtual machines for a variety of use cases that stress policy adherence, regulatory compliance and chargeback.

LAB11 - VMware vCenter Chargeback
Attendees will gain practical, hands on experience with VMware's new vCenter Chargeback. Many companies have used a manual approach to charge for virtual machines but with vCenter Chargeback you are able to configure customized billing. Base cost models, fixed costs, and additional factors can be entered into VMware vCenter Chargeback for proper business alignment in addition to allowing for costs to be propagated across an environment correctly. By attending this lab attendees will gain the knowledge and experience to configure vCenter Chargeback in your environment, configure fixed and variable costs, automate reporting and configure user access. The VMware vCenter Chargeback subject matter experts will be on-hand to help you learn how to leverage vCenter Chargeback in your environment.

LAB12 - Scripting VMware Infrastructure (PowerShell/Perl Toolkits)
This lab will provide hands on training for scripting a VMware environment. The goal is to provide all the tools needed to automate, integrate, and extend VC for your environment. Attendees will have a choice of using the VI Windows Toolkit or the VI Perl Toolkit for scripting VirtualCenter and ESX. They'll walk away from the lab with a better understanding of VMware Infrastructure, resources for using the toolkits, and a variety of scripts for performing common administrative tasks. Exercises will cover performing tasks based on VM attributes, performing actions on many VMs at a time, and exporting performance data. This lab does not require programming or scripting experience.