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VMWare vSphere 5.x Fast Track course
Overview
This course is focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5. As an intensive, extended-hours course it combines the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0.
Course Objectives
- Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
- Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
- Manage user access to the virtual infrastructure
- Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
- Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
- Implement business continuity solutions
- Manage changes to the vSphere environment
- Use a command-line interface to manage vSphere
- Install and configure ESXi and vCenter Server
- Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
Audience
System administrators, system engineers, help desk, those in short who need the skills, knowledge and practical abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of a VMware environment.
Prerequisites
This is not suitable for someone new to VMware. Delegates should have attended a Fast-Track course or the Install, Configure and Manage course.
Course Contents (5 days)
- Course Introduction
- 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
- Create Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Detail VMDirect path
- Deploy a single virtual machine
- Deploy virtual machines using templates and cloning
- Deploy virtual machines from VMware Converter enterprise, VMware converter CD, and guided consolidation
- VMware vCenter Server
- Introduce vCenter Server architecture
- Introduce vCenter Server appliance
- Configure and manage vCenter Server appliance
- Configure and manage vCentre for windows
- Configure and Manage vCentre linked mode
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
- Describe and detail vCentre Server heartbeat 6.4
- Instaling the vCenter web server service
- Using the vCenter web service client
- Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage both standard and distributed virtual switches
- Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
- Describe vSwitch security options
- Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
- 6 Configure and Manage Virtual Storage
- Introduce storage protocols and device names
- Describe and configure storage profiles
- Allocate different storage profiles to different virtual machines
- Allocate different storage priorities to different virtual machines
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage vSphere datastores
- Detail the VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance
- Virtual Machine Management
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and Storage vMotion migrations
- Create a vSphere vApp
- Data Protection
- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Introduce, deploy and configure the VMware Data Recovery appliance
- Perform backups and restorations using VMware Data Recovery appliance
- Discuss VMware backup APIs, solutions and products
- Access and Authentication Control
- Configure user access with roles and permissions
- Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
- Configure ESXi lockdown mode
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- Introduce VMware vShield Zones
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- Describe virtual CPU, memory and disk concepts.
- Detail the most common performance problems and their solutions
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Configure and monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
- View and utilize vCentre map views
- High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Create and implement Host Profiles
- Introduce new vSphere High Availability (HA) architecture
- Introduce, configure and test a vSphere High Availability cluster
- Introduce, configure and test VMware Fault Tolerance
- Scalability
- Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
- Configure and manage Storage DRS
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Use vSphere HA and DRS together
- Patch Management
- Manage ESXi patching using vCenter Update Manager
- Install Update Manager and Update Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts
- 14 Installing VMware Components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Perform an ESXi installation
- Describe boot from SAN requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
- Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Install vCenter Server