Systems administrators and systems integrators experienced with Virtual Infrastructure 3 who are responsible for scaling their organization’s deployment of VMware technology.

At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Perform scripted installations
• Administer an ESX server using commands
• Configure Virtual Infrastructure security
• Monitor Virtual Infrastructure
• Configure and implement VMware High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Consolidated Backup, and Update Manager
• Perform fault analysis on Virtual Infrastructure components

Storage Administration

• Manage Virtual Machine File Systems (VMFS) datastores
• Introducing Storage VMotion

Network Administration

• Configure and secure virtual networking
• Configure software iSCSI adapter
• Manage service console firewall

DRS Configuration and Performance Monitoring

• Analyze and interpret performance using esxtop and graphical tools
• Create and manage DRS-enabled clusters

Business Continuity and Data Protection

• Configure advanced features of VMware HA cluster
• Perform backups and restoration of virtual machines using VMware Consolidated Backup

Operational Maintenance

• Configure and apply updates using VMware Update Manager

Modify Logging Behavior

• Configure VirtualCenter and ESX Server logging
• Consolidate and rotate log files

Service Console Security

• Configure SSH and TCP wrappers

Rapid Deployment of ESX Servers

• Perform automated installation of ESX Servers for mass deployments