VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure v3.5 Training Class

1. Introduction

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  What Virtual Infrastructure Is


• 
  VMware Infrastructure

2. Virtual Infrastructure Overview

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  Virtualization


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  A Virtual Machine


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  How Virtualization Works


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  Virtualization using a Bare-Metal Hypervisor


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  ESX Server Architecture


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  Using VMware Infrastructure in a Data Center

3. ESX Server Installation

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  ESX Server Physical Setup


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  Hardware Prerequisites


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  Partitioning an x86 Disk


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  After Installation Is Complete


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  ESX Server Physical Console After Install


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  VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client


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  Single-Host Licensing

4. Networking

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  Virtual Switches


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  Network Connections


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  Virtual Switch Property: Ports


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  Virtual Switch Property: Network Adapters


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  Port Group Property: VLANs


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  Virtual Switch and Port Group Policies


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  Security Policy


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  Traffic-Shaping Policy


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  NIC Teaming Policy


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  Load-Balancing


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  Detecting and Handling Network Failure

5. Storage

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  How Fibre Channel is used with ESX Server


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  Addressing SAN LUNs in the VMkernel


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  Making SAN Storage Available to ESX Server


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  How iSCSI is used with ESX Server


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  How iSCSI Storage Authenticates the ESX Server


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  iSCSI Software and Hardware Initiators


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  VMFS


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  Multipathing with Fibre Channel


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  Multipathing with iSCSI


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  Manage Multiple Paths


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  How NAS/NFS is used with ESX Server


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  Addressing and Access Control with NFS

6. VirtualCenter Installation

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  VirtualCenter Components


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  VirtualCenter Architecture


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  Hardware and Software Prerequisites


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  VirtualCenter Database


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  VMware License Server (Centralized Licensing)


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  VirtualCenter Server Services


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  VI Client Overview


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  ESX Server and VirtualCenter Communication


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  Managing Across Geographies


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  Backup Strategy for VirtualCenter Server


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  VirtualCenter Inventory: Multiple Data Centers


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  VirtualCenter Inventory: Clusters

7. Virtual Machine Creation and Management

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  Files that Make Up a Virtual Machine


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  Display a Virtual Machine's Files using the VI Client


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  Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware


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  Virtual Machine Console


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  Install Guest Operating System into a Virtual Machine


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  Deploy a Virtual Machine from Template


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  Clone a Virtual Machine


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  Guest Operating System Customization


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  Deploying Across Datacenters


• 
  Virtual Appliances


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  VMware Converter Enterprise


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  Hot Cloning


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  Cold Cloning


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  Importing a Server


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  Move VM Between ESX Servers: Cold Migration


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  Modify Virtual Machine Settings


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  Guided Consolidation

8. Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• 
  Security Model Overview


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  Defining Users and Groups


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  Privileges and Roles


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  Permissions


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  VirtualCenter Security Model


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  ESX Server Security Model


• 
  Web Access

9. Resource Management

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  How Virtual Machines Compete for Resources


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  Resource Pool


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  Configuring a Pool's Resources


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  Move VM Between ESX Servers: VMotion Migration


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  How VMotion Works


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  Virtual Machine Requirements for VMotion


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  Host Requirements for VMotion


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  What a DRS Cluster Is


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  Create a DRS Cluster


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  Best Practices for DRS


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  Resource Pools in a DRS Cluster


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  Delegated Administration


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  Monitor Cluster Usage


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  Planned Downtime: Maintenance Mode

10. Resource Monitoring

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  Systems for Optimizing VM Resource Use


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  Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance


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  Performance-Tuning Methodology


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  Monitoring VM Resource Use with Performance Graphs


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  Tools for Improving VM CPU and Memory Performance


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  Monitoring Using Performance-Based Alarms

11. Data and Availability Protection

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  Backup Strategies


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  What To Back Up


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  General Guidelines for Virtual Machine Backups


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  Virtual Machine High Availability


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  Clustering Inside VMs for High Availability

12. Planning VI Deployment

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  ESX Server 3 Hardware Support


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  ESX Server Sizing


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  Booting ESX from a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN LUN


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  VirtualCenter Deployment


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  Storage Considerations


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  Storage Comparison: Fibre Channel, NAS, iSCSI

System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX
Server and/or VirtualCenter

Experience administering Microsoft Windows?? or Linux?? operating systems.