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VMware Training Overview
This powerful 5-day 10hr/day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™
5.5 including VMware ESX™ 5.5 and vCenter™. Assuming no prior virtualization
experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics.
40+% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed
and reinforced. Labs start with installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers
and progress to shared storage, networking and centralized management. The class
continues to advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, power
management, back up and recovery, performance, vCenter redundancy, VM redundancy.
Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also
covered. This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify and eliminate common
IT pain points and then to use virtualization to deliver clear, tangible benefits. Each topic
is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical
or mechanical aspects of the software. By the end of the class, attendees will have
learned the benefits, skills, and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to
design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot VMware
vSphere 5.5.
VMware Training Audience
System Architects, security specialists, analysts, back-up and storage administrators.
VMware Training Prerequisites
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on
common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™, etc.
Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and
or networks is useful but not required. All attendees should have a basic familiarity with
PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc
Course duration
5 Days
VMware Training Course outline
1. Introduction to vSphere 5.5
- VMware vSphere
- Problems and Opportunities
- Server Resource Utilization
- Server Consolidation
- Datacenter Issues
- OS, Application Imaging
- Back Up & Recovery
- Server Refresh
- Windows Server 2012
- Disaster Recovery
- Test, Development & QA
- IT Technical Career Benefits
- Virtualization Over Time
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Editions
- vSphere Acceleration Kits
- Single Host Deployment
- Multiple ESXi w. Shared Storage
- vSphere Private Cloud
- Private Cloud Computing
- Storage, Server, Network Cloud
- What's New in vSphere 5.1/5.5
1.1 Introduction Supplement
- Desktop Virtualization
- View Features Beyond VDI
- View Architecture
- Benefits
- Desktop Capabilities, Challenges and Licensing
- Windows Server as a Desktop
- W2k8 Workstation How-To
2. VMware ESXi
- Scalable ESXi Deployment
- Installing ESXi
- ESXi Boot Screen
- Performing an In-Place Upgrade
- Hardware Virtualization Assist
- ESXi 5.5 DCUI
- Configure Management Network
- Network Adapter Details
- IPV4/IPV6 Configuration
- Network Changes
- ESXi Ready for Service
- Alt-F12 VMkernel Log Entries
- Login with vSphere Client
- vSphere Client>ESXi Host
- Joining ESXi to an AD Domain
- Licensed Features
3. Virtual Networking
- Virtual Hardware
- Virtual and Physical Networking
- Teamed Networking
- vNetwork Switces
- Standard vSwitches
- Distributed vSwitches
- Physical and Virtual Networking
- Multi-homed Networking
- vSwitch Properties
- ESXi Physical NICs
- vSwitch Rules
4. NAS/NFS
- Network Attached Storage / Network File System
- NAS/NFS Uses
- NAS Protocols
- Defining NFS Shares on Linux
- NFS Share in Storage Roster
- Unmounting an NFS Share
- Troubleshooting NFS
- NFS Perfomance & Reliability
5. Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machines & Hardware
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Datastore Browser
- New Virtual Machine Wizard
- Multicore vCPUs
- VM Wizard Memory, Disk
- VMware Paravirtual Controller
- Virtual Disk Snapshots
- Complete the Virtual Machine
- Install Guest OS
- VMware Tools
- USXi 5.0 Supports USB
- Windows Performance Tips
- Supported Guest OS
6. vCenter Server
- Central Management w. vCenter
- vCenter for Windows
- vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
- VMware SignOn
- vCenter Deployment
- Inventory Service
- MS SQL Server
- Install vCenter for Windows
- vCSA First-time Boot
- Configuring
- Don't Bypass vCenter
- Organizing Inventory
- Resource Maps
- Adding Licenses to vCenter
- vSphere C#, Web Clients
- Web Access Remote Console
- Add SSO Identity Sources
- Functions Only in Web Client
- vCenter Limits
7. Templates, Clones
- VM Rapid Deployment
- Template Theory
- Template Benefits
- Disk Formats
- Creating a New Template
- Templates in Hosts and Clusters
- Clone a VM
- Clone a Template
- Windows VM Customization
- Non-Windows OS Customization
- Virtual Appliance / Pros and Cons
- Import/ Export Virtual Appliances
- VM Basic 2D & 3D Video
- Virtual PC Workstations
- Hot Grow Disks
8. Permissions
- Permission Privileges, Roles, Users
- Determining Permissions
- Role Assignments
- vCenter Users, Groups
- View vCenter Base Permissions
- ESXi Users, Groups
- Permissions
9. Shared Storage
- SAN Features
- Fibre Storage Area Networks
- World Wide Names
- Hardware Paths
- iSCSI
- CHAP Authentication Process
- Troubleshooting iSCSI
- Storage Views, Maps, Reports
- ESXi 5.5 Boot from SAN
9.1 Raw Device Maps
- Raw Device Maps & Migration
- Microsoft Cluster Services
10. VMware File System
- VMFS 5 Features
- Building a VMFS
- New VMFS
- Create/Grow a LUN Span
- To Add an Extent
- Grow VMFS
- Storage Multipath
- iSCSI SAN Multipathing
- Pluggable Storage Architecture
11. Alarms
- Performance Alarms
- vCenter Alarms
- ESXi Host Alarms
- Alarm Reporting
- Triggered vCenter Alarms
- Default Alarm Definitions
- Custom Alarms
- Alarm Best Practices
12. Resource Pools
- Resource Administration
- VM CPU Resource Tunables
- Dynamic Memory Balancing
- Memory Resources Tunables
- Resource Shares
- Resource Pools
- Memory/Storage Resource Allocations
- Virtual Hardware Resources
13. Converter
- Converter Import Source Options
- vCenter Converter
- What’s New in Converter 5.5
- Clone & Update Disk(s)
- Clone Physical Disk(s)
- Create the New Virtual Machine
- VM Reconfiguration
- New VM Housekeeping
- Converter Caveats
14. VM Migration
- Virtual Machine Migration
- Cold Migration
- VMotion Migration
- VMotion Requirements
- Progress is Monitored
- VM is Descheduled
- VM Context is Transferred
- Switch Over
- VM Scheduled to Run
- Housekeeping
- Failed Validation
- Compatibility
- Storage VMotion
15. DRS
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Functions
- DRS Automation Level
- Migration Threshold
- Power Management
- EVC for Intel CPUs
- EVC Benefits
- DRS EVC Requirements
- Resource Management
- Adopting DRS
15.1 Power Management
- Power Management Overview
- PM Settings
- Configure ESXi for Power Mgt
- Power Standby
- Datacenter Monitoring Tools
- CPU Power Management
16. VMware HA
- VMware High Availability Clusters
- HA VM Requirements
- VMware HA Host Failures
- Admission Control
- HA Cluster Heartbeat
- Datastore Heartbeats
- HA Restart Priority
- VM Monitoring
- HA Cluster Slots
- Maintenance Mode
- HA and DRS
- Isolation Response
16.1 VMware FT
- VMware Fault Tolerance
- FT Use Cases
- FT Cluster/Host Requirements
- Enable FT on a VM
- FT Impact on VM Memory
- Fault Tolerance Protected VM
- VMware FT Recommendations
- FT Bandwidth Estimates
17. Host Profiles
- Managing ESXi Host Config
- Host Profile Tasks & Contents
- Attaching Host Profiles
- Applying A Profile to a Host
- Guest OS Compliance?
18. vSphere Replication
- VM Synchronization
- VM Replication Policies
- Site-to-Site Replication
- vSphere Client Integration Plug-in
- VR Replication Target
- Advanced Disk Configuration
- vSphere Replication
- Recovering a VM
19. Update Manager
- Patch Management
- VUM Components
- Install & Configure VUM
- Patch Download Settings
- Stock Patch Baselines
- New Baseline
- Selected Patches
- Compliance
- VUM Clusters, Tasks & Events
20. Peformance
- Performance Analysis & Tuning
- VM Scheduling Priority
- Physical to Virtual CPU
- Transparent Page Sharing
- Memory Ballooning
- Ballooning vs. VMkernel Swap
- VMkernel Native Drivers
- ESXi and SSDs
- Performance Chart
- Performance Problems
- Monitoring Memory Stress
- Performance Analysis Tools
21. Advanced Networking
- Advanced Virtual Networking
- Distributed vSwitches
- Building a New dvSwitch
- Physical Adapter Details
- Migrate VMs to dvPort Groups
- DvSwitch Port Assignments
- Management, VMkernel Ports
- Manage Physical/Virtual Adapters
- dvSwitch Properties
- Port Group Security
- Traffic Shaping
- NIC Team Settings
- Originating Port Forwarding
- IP Hash Forwarding
- Physical NIC Load Forwarding
- Active and Standby NICs
- Network Failure
- Resilient Network Configuration
- Standard vSwitch VLANs
- VLANs & VLAN Trunking
- Private VLans
22. Final Thoughts
- One-to-One Virtualization
- CPU Considerations
- Delivering High Availability
- Virtualization Security Issues
- Useful Resources for vSphere
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