VMware Workstation 7: Managing Virtual Machines

Overview/Description
This course explores the features and tasks involved in administering VMware Workstation and hosted virtual machines. It provides an overview of the menu options and interface used to manage your virtual machines and explores common VM configurations settings including the ability to connect various hardware devices. Also covered are the use of teams in organizing your virtual machines, Workstation's unique record and playback functionality, the use of ACE packages, and VM management using the snapshot and cloning feature. This course focuses on the administration of VMware Workstation on a Windows host, but the information applies in large to operation on Linux hosts as well.

Target Audience
This path is for a technical engineering audience.

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

VMware Workstation 7: Managing Virtual Machines

perform admin tasks using the Workstation interface

identify the key new features in VMware Workstation

modify the workstation interface

identify the considerations involved in attaching hardware devices to virtual machines

configure USB 2.0 support on a virtual machine

identify the considerations involved in working with teams

manage a virtual machine team

use the record/replay feature

configure virtual machine settings for a given scenario

create and populate a team

identify the options available when saving the state of a VM

take a snapshot of a VM

create a VM clone

differentiate between linked and full clones

identify the considerations involved in moving a VM

create an ACE package using the new package wizard

identify the features of VMware ACE

create a snapshot of a virtual machine state

create a clone of a VM snapshot

create an ACE package from a cloned VM