Course Overview
Experience the ultimate in vSphere 5 skills-building and VCP exam-preparation training.
In this intensive, extended-hours course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® vSphere® 5. You will explore the topics covered in VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage in greater detail and expand upon them by learning advanced tasks and gaining expert skills for configuring a highly avaiLable and scaLable virtual infrastructure.
You will gain hands-on experience installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter™ Server 5.0, and you will learn about all the new features found in vSphere 5. Topics unique to this course include Fault Tolerance, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), Storage vMotion, and Distributed Power Management (DPM). Approximately 40% of your class time will be devoted to 32 hands-on **Labs.
This fast-track course aligns to the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 exam objectives more closely than any other VMware training course, and it satisfies the coursework requirements for certification. A VCP exam voucher is included.
Objectives
After completing this course, you will 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 sca**Lability
- Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
- Use vCenter Server to manage higher avai**Lability and data protection
- Automate VMware ESX™ configuration
- Automate provisioning virtual machines
- Automate virtual machine configuration changes
- Automate cluster operations
- Automate reporting
Who Should Attend
Experienced system administrators, engineers, and operators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office
Course Outline
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]
1. VMware Virtualization
- Virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
- Server, network, and storage virtualization concepts
- Where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
2. Virtual Machines
- Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine and virtual machine appliance
3. VMware vCenter Server
- vCenter Server and database requirements
- vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server appliance
- View and create vCenter Server inventory objects
4. Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
- Create and manage a standard virtual switch
- Modify standard virtual switch properties
5. Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage vSphere datastores
- Configure, deploy, and manage the VMware Virtual Storage Appliance
6. 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
7. Access and Authentication Control
- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- vShield Zones
8. Resource Management and Monitoring
- Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
- VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
9. Data Protection
- Strategies for backing up ESXi hosts
- Backup/recovery APIs
- Strategies for backing up virtual machines
10. High AvaiLability and Fault Tolerance**
- Configure and manage a VMware High Avai**Lability (HA) cluster
- Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance
11. ScaLability
- Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
- Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Using VMware HA and DRS together
12. Patch Management
- Manage ESXi patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager
13. Installing VMware vSphere 5 Components
- ESXi Instal**Lable installation
- vCenter Server installation
- Additional vCenter Server module installation
VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI [V4x]
1. Introduction to vSphere PowerCLI
2. Main vSphere PowerCLI Object
- Main commandlets in vSphere PowerCLI
- Connect to a vSphere infrastructure
- Get help for commandlets
3. Automating ESX Host Configuration
- Automate configuration of virtual switches on ESX hosts
- Automate configuration of datastores on ESX hosts
4. Virtual Machine Provisioning, Configuration, and Protection
- Automate creation of virtual machines
- Change virtual machine settings programmatically
- Run vSphere PowerCLI scripts in virtual machines
- Automate virtual machine protection
5. Automating Cluster Operations
- Automate virtual machine storage migration
- Automate VMware vMotion™
- Create a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler/VMware High Avai**Lability cluster
- Automate cluster configuration
- Automate resource pool creation and configuration
Lab Outline
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]
- Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces
- Lab 2: Configuring VMware ESXi
- Lab 3: Working with Virtual Machines
- Lab 4: Configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Lab 5: Using VMware vCenter Server
- Lab 6: Standard Virtual Switches
- Lab 7: Accessing IP Storage
- Lab 8: Managing VMware vSphere VMFSL
- Lab 9: Using Templates and Clones
- Lab 10: Modifying a Virtual Machine
- Lab 11: Migrating Virtual Machines
- Lab 12: Managing Virtual Machines
- Lab 13: Access Control
- Lab 14: Resource Pools
- Lab 15: Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance
- Lab 16: Using Alarms
- Lab 17: Using vSphere High Avai**Lability
- Lab 18: vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Lab 19: VMware vCenter Update Manager
- Lab 20: Installing VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI [V4x]
- Lab 1: VMware vSphere Infrastructure
- Lab 2: vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlet Help
- Lab 3: Configuring Virtual Switches
- Lab 4: Configuring Storage
- Lab 5: Configuring the ESX/ESXi Host
- Lab 6: Provisioning Virtual Machines
- Lab 7: Managing Virtual Machine Configuration
- Lab 8: Virtual Machine Migration
- Lab 9: Configuring Clustering
- Lab 10: Virtual Machine Reporting
- Lab 11: Virtual Machine Host Reporting
- Lab 12: Cluster Reporting
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:
- Internetworking fundamentals
- Data Center Unified Computing Implementation (DCUCI)