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VMware Training Overview
This class is an intense, five-day introduction to virtualization using VMware’s immensely popular Virtual Infrastructure™ suite including VMware ESX™ 3.5 and VirtualCenter™ 2.5. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. Up to 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts and skills are reinforced. Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESX servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced. The class then continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, back up and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered. By the end of the class, attendees will have learned the benefits, mechanics and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage, troubleshoot and secure virtual infrastructure.
VMware Training Audience
System architects, senior administrators, security specialists, operators, performance and capacity analysts, Virtual Infrastructure Backup Administrators, business Continuity specialists, storage administrators, VMware customers and prospects, or managers who need a thorough understanding of virtualization..
VMware Training Prerequisites
User, operator, or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™ or other platforms. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, etc. No Linux command line skills are assumed or required.
Course duration
5 Days
VMware Training Course outline
Virtualization Infrastructure
Virtualization explained
How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
Common pain points of physical deployments
How virtualization effectively addresses issues and brings new
Stand Alone ESX Server Installation
Selecting, validating and preparing your server
Sizing Service Console and VMkernel resources
Storage controllers, disks and partitions
Software installation and licensing
Installation recommendations and best practices
First look at the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client
Virtual and Physical Networking
Virtual Machine, IP Storage and management concepts
Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
Sizing Virtual Switches
NAS Shared Storage
Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
Shared Storage options
NFS Overview
Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
Troubleshooting NFS connections
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
VM virtual hardware, options and limits
Sizing and creating a new VM
Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
Working with a VM’s BIOS
VMware remote console applications
Installing an OS into a VM
Driver installation and customization
VM best practices for monitoring and scalability
Accessing VMs and servers remotely via the Web
Understanding what should and should not be virtualized
VirtualCenter
VirtualCenter architectural and feature overview
VirtualCenter components
License Server and Licensing Options
VirtualCenter Inventory and views
Host and Server based licensing models
VirtualCenter Inventory
VirtualCenter's four views into Virtual Infrastructure
Role of the datacenter
Using folders to impart political, geographic or technical boundaries
Importing ESX hosts into VirtualCenter management
Troubleshooting VirtualCenter
VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
Golden Master images
Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
Patching, and refreshing Templates
Cloning, one time copies of VMs
Best practices for cloning and templating
Performance considerations
ESX and VirtualCenter Permission Model
VMware Security model
Configuring local users and groups
Managing local permissions
VirtualCenter security model
Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
How permissions are applied
Advanced Virtual Networking
Up-linking Virtual and Physical Network segments using NICs
NIC teaming for redundancy and Performance
Connecting to vLANs
Enhanced Network Security
Virtual routers and firewalls
Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
Fibre SAN overview
Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
Partitioning and formatting Fibre SAN Storage
Multi-pathing in a Fibre SAN environment
Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
iSCSI overview
Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
Creating virtual iSCSI adapters
Connecting to iSCSI storage
Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
VMware File System (VMFS)
VMFS Overview
Unique file system properties of VMFS
Managing shared Volumes
Creating new VMFS partitions
Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning
Multi-pathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
VMFS performance considerations
Resource Management and Resource Pools
How ESX delivers resources to VMs
Shares, Reservations and Limits
CPU resource scheduling
Memory resource scheduling
Disk I/O bandwidth management
Network bandwidth management
Resource Pools
VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion
Moving Virtual Machines
Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
Hot Migrations with VMotion
VMotion requirements
VMotion dependencies
How VMotion works – detailed explanation
Troubleshooting VMotion
Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler
Delegated resource management with Resource Pools
Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
Isolation response and per-VM policy overrides
Failure Recover with High Availability Clusters
Application level clusters such as MSCS
VM cluster strategies using MSCS
Using VMs as cluster peers with MSCS
VMware High Availability clusters
Back Up and Recovery Strategies
Pro’s and Con’s of traditional back up strategies
VMware Consolidated Backup
Third party back up solutions
Back up strategies and alternatives
Backing up the ESX Service Console
Consolidation with VMware Converter Enterprise
VMware Converter overview
Converting physical machines, virtual machines and OS Images
Cold migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
Hot migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
Effective Performance Monitoring
VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
Identifying and resolving resource contention
Monitoring VM and ESX host performance
Configuring and customizing resource based alarms
Performance and capacity planning strategies
ESX and VirtualCenter Alarms
VMware Capacity Planner overview
Finding and monitoring physical workloads
Reviewing physical server performance data
Using Capacity Planner recommendations to plan your migration
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