Overview
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere®, which consists of VMware vSphere® ESXi™ and VMware® vCenter Server™. The beta course is based on prerelease versions of ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several, more advanced vSphere courses
Pre-Requisites
Delegates attending this course should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to VMware Virtualization
- Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
- Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere user interfaces
Creating Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
- Deploy a single virtual machine
VMware vCenter Server
- Identify vCenter Server and database requirements
- Introduce VMware® vCenter™ Server Appliance™
- Configure and manage vCener Server Appliance
- Manage vCenter Server Inventory objects and licenses
Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
- Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
- Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
- Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
Configure and Manage vSphere Storage
- Introduce storge protocols and device names
- Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage vSphere datastores
- Configure, deploy, and manage the VMware® Virtual Storage Appliance
Virtual Machine Management
- Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Perform VMware vSphere vMotion® and Storage vMotion migrations
- Create VMware vSphere vApp
Data Protection
- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts andvCenter Server
- Introduce VMware Data Recovery
- Discuss solutions for backing up virtual machines efficiently
Access and Authentication Control
- Control user access through roles and permissions
- Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
- Configure ESXi lockdown mode
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
- Introduce VMware vShield Zones
Resource Management and Monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Configure and manage resouce pools
- Monitor resource usage usingvCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Introduce thenew VMware High Availability (HA) architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Introduce VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Scalability
- Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
- Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Using VMware HA and DRS together
Patch Management
- Use Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install Update manager and the Update Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Scan and remediate hosts
Installing VMware Components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
- Describe vCetner Server hardware, software and database requirements
- Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should understand vSphere 5.1 functions and features and be able to do the following:
- Install and configure ESXi
- Install and configure vCenter Server components
- Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
- 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 scalability
- Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
- Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
Target Audience
This course is designed for System administrators, Systems engineers and Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server.
Certification
This course leads to VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
Follow on Courses
Delegates attending this course may wish to attend:
- VMware vSphere : Design Workshop (VSD)
- VMware View : Install, Configure & Manage (VMVIEW)
- VMware vSphere: Optimize & Scale (VSOS)
