VMware VSphere Online Training With Placement

Virtualization / VMWare Training Provided by San America

Course Overview:
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5.1.
This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.1 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Implement VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
• Use profile-driven storage and VMware vSphere Storage DRS to scale storage
• Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
• Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Use VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image
• Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

Course Modules:
Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Virtualization:

• Introduce virtualization 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
• Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings

Creating Virtual Machines:

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine

VMware vCenter Server:

• Introduce vCenter Server architecture
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks:

• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage:

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware vSphere 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 VMware vSphere
• Storage vMotion migrations
• Create a VMware vSphere vApp

Access and Authentication Control:

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce VMware vShield products

Resource Management and Monitoring:

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage

High Availability and Fault Tolerance:

• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enable FT on a virtual machine

Host Scalability:

• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
• Configure and manage VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management

Network Scalability:

• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

Storage Scalability:

• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and Storage Awareness
• Explain profile-driven storage
• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure Storage DRS

Data Protection:

• Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
• Introduce VMware vSphere Data Protection
• Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

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

VMware vSphere Management Assistant:

• Describe vMA
• Configure vMA
• Discuss the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface command set
• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring.

Installing VMware Components:

• Describe vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
• Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host