Course Description
A student with no prior virtualization experience, will learn the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. More than 40 percent of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced.
At the end of the course, attendees will be able to: - Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization - Install ESXi Server according to best practices- Configure and manage local storage- Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments- Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN- Define and use file share (NAS) datastoresInstall, configure and administer VMware vCente- Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications- Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates- Create clones - one-time copies of virtual machinePerform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion- Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups- Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN, - Deploy and use VMware Data Recovery to back up and recover VMs- Create and manage load balanced clustersManage power consumption with Distributed Power Management- Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures- Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance- Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager- Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization- Troubleshoot common problems
This class is suitable for anyone who wants to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including: System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure.Security specialists responsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure Performance and capacity analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure Backup Administrators who need to understand the impact of existing and new back up strategies in a virtual environment Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availabilityStorage administrators who need to understand how VMware ESX uses Fibre SAN and iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.
Agenda
Virtualization Infrastructure
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- Common pain points in PC Server management
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
How to install ESXi 5.0 Installable
- Understanding ESXi
- Selecting, validating and preparing your server
- Storage controllers, disks and partitions
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to a Domain
- First look at the VMware vSphere Client
Virtual and Physical Networking
- vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
- Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
- Creating VMkernel ports
- Creating, sizing and customizing Virtual
NAS Shared Storage
- Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
- Shared Storage options
- NFS Overview
- Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
- Troubleshooting NFS connections
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Sizing and creating a new VM
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
- Working with a VMs BIOS
- VMware remote console applications
- Installing an OS into a VM Driver installation and customization
vCenter
- vCenter feature overview and components
- VMware Licensing
- Organizing vCenters inventory views
- Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
- Troubleshooting vCenter
VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
- Templates - Virtual Machine Golden Master images
- Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
- Patching, and refreshing Templates
- Cloning, one time copies of VMs
- Best practices for cloning and templating
ESX and vCenter Permission Model
- VMware Security model
- Configuring local users and groups
- Managing local permissions
- vCenter security model
- Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
- How permissions are applied
Advanced Virtual Networking
- Uplinking Virtual and Physical Network segments using NICs
- Distributed virtual switches and distributed Port Groups
- NIC teaming for redundancy and Performance
- Connecting to vLANs
- Enhanced Network Security
- Virtual routers and firewalls
- Assigning physical NICs to VMs
Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
- Fibre SAN overview
- Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
- Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
- iSCSI overview
- Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
- Connecting to iSCSI storage
- Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
- Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
VMware File System (VMFS)
- Unique file system properties of VMFS
- Managing shared Volumes
- Creating new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- VMFS performance considerations
Resource Management and Resource Pools
- How ESX delivers resources to VMs
- Shares, Reservations and Limits
- CPU resource scheduling
- Memory resource scheduling
- Resource Pools
Guided Consolidation
- Use Guided Consolidation to discover, Domains, Workgroups and servers
- Extract hardware profiles from select servers
- Monitor physical server resource consumption
- Select and convert physical servers to VMs
VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion
- Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
- Hot Migrations with
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Virtual Vmware vSphere 5.0 with ESXi and vCenter Online Live training option
Imagine an industry-leading classroom training experience from wherever you have access to the Internet.
The Virtual Online Live events listed here gives you an effective and proven online virtual learning experience with the freedom to attend virtually from anywhere.
There is also an option of experiencing Online Live from one of the many national partner centers where a computer and headset will be provided for you.
This rich and engaging virtual classroom environment lets you conveniently interact with instructors and other students.
You will hear and see your instructor as they teach the course and answer your questions via voice or text.
Choose the online live virtual training option and you can access the recorded version even after the class has finished.
The onDemand labs give you access to the same client and server technologies covered in class so you can test, apply and hone your skills by accessing the labs before and even after the class.
Technical Requirements: a computer or laptop with a modern browser and high speed internet access along with one or two monitors.