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

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware Infrastructure 3 and be able to:

• Install ESX Server
• Configure ESX Server networking and storage
• Install and configure VirtualCenter
• Control user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Deploy and manage virtual machines using VirtualCenter
• Allocate and monitor virtual machines’ resources
• Ensure high availability of applications

Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components

Module 3: ESX Server Installation

• Set-up of ESX Server

Module 4: Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

Module 5: Storage

• Storage management technologies

Module 6: VirtualCenter Installation

• Set-up of VirtualCenter components

Module 7: VM Creation and Management

• Use of templates
• Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Use of Guided Consolidation

Module 8: Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Module 9: Resource Management

• VMotion migrations
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources

Module 10: Resource Monitoring

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter

Module 11: Data and Availability Protection

• Backup strategies
• Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster

Module 12: Planning VI Deployment

• Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment