| Course Objectives
At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware vSphere and be able to:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Install and configure vCenter Server components
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
- Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
- Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
- Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
- Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
- Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
- Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and date protection
Who Should Attend?
This course is ideal for System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server.
After completing this course delegates are able to go on and sit the VCP Certification exam.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization, virtual machines and vSphere components
• Explain the concepts of server network and storage virtualization
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces
- Module 3: Virtual Machines
• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine and virtual machine appliance
- Module 4: VMware vCenter Server
• Identify vCenter Server and database requirements
• Describe vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server appliance
• View and create vCenter Server inventory objects
- Module 5: Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
• Describe, create and manage a virtual switch
• Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
- Module 6: Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere data stores
• Configure, deploy and manage the VMware Virtual Storage Appliance
- Module 7: Virtual Machine Management
• Deploy virtual machines using templates, cloning, and VMware vCenter Converter
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion migrations
- Module 8: Access and Authentication Control
• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce vShield Zones
- Module 9: Resource Management and Monitoring
• Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
• Introduce VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
- Module 10: Data Protection
• Discuss strategies for backing up ESXi hosts
• Introduce the backup/recovery APIs
• Discuss strategies for backing up virtual machines
- Module 11: High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Configure and Manage a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
• Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance
- Module 12: Scalability
• Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Configuring Enhanced vMotion compatibility
• Using VMware HA and DRS together
- Module 13: Patch Management
• Manage ESXi patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager
- Module 14: Installing VMware vSphere 5 Components
• Introduce ESXi Installable installation
- • Introduce vCenter Server installation
Duration
5 days
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