VMware 4.1

Introduction
  Introduction and History
  Architecture
  Boot process

My Hardware setup
  Introduction
  Networking
  Openfiler setup
  ESXi server setup
  Final Comments

Installation
  ESXi Server installation
  vSphere Client installation
  vCenter installation and overview

Networking
  Introduction
  Standard Networking
  Port Groups
  Configuration and Problems of vSwitches and Port groups
  Service Console Network
  Distributed Networking
  Final Comments

Storage
  Introduction
  Controllers and Local Storage
  SAN Storage (fibre)
  iSCSI storage (using openfiler)
  VMware File System (VMFS)
  Viewing Storage

Virtual Machines
  Introduction
  First VM - Creating a new VM and Administration
  Guest OS installation and VMware Tools
  Snapshotting
  P2V (physical to virtual)
  Rapid VM deployment - templates, cloning and export to OVF

Security
  Introduction
  Roles and Users
  Datastore Access

Resource Monitoring and Management
  Introduction
  vCPU
  Memory
  vClient/vCenter performance charts
  Alarms
  Events and Tasks
  Resource Management
  Resource pools

VMotion, Storage VMotion and Cold Migration
  VMotion
  Storage VMotion
  Cold Migration

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  Introduction
  Setting up and configuring DRS
  DRS Options
  DRS Faults and History events

Distributed Power Management (DPM)
  Introduction
  Configuring DPM
  Testing DPM
  Configuring DPM for ILO/RAC/IMM/DRAC cards

Fault Tolerance (FT)
  Introduction
  Configuring FT

High Availability (HA)
  Introduction
  Enabling and configuring
  Testing and Monitoring

Backups and Restoring
  Introduction

Patch Management
  Introduction
  VMware Update Manager (VUM)
  Baselines and BaseLine Groups
  Scanning and Patching
  ESXi Server and cluster Patching (I also cover staging)
  Update Service

Advanced Configuration Tools
  Introduction
  Host Profiles
  vCLI
  PowerCLI

Links
  The official VMware web site