VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Overview:

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere™, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX and VMware vCenter Server. Upon completion of this course, you can opt for VCP examination.

Course Objectives:

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

• Install and configure ESX
• Install and configure vCenter Server
• Configure and manage ESX networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deploy and manage virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Increase scalability using vCenter Server
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server
• Apply patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager
• Manage higher availability and data protection using vCenter Server

Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

Target Audience:

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

Prerequisites:

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Outline:

Introduction to virtualization

Various types of virtualization

Virtualization products comparison

Introduction to VMware vSphere

Discussion of vSphere components and Cloud Computing (Iaas and SaaS)
 
Installing and configuration of ESXi/ESX

Licensing and packaging
•  Licensing changes,editions,kits and pricing.

Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server
•  Install and configure vCenter Server, and use the VMware vSphere Client to manage vCenter Server inventory hierarchies

Networking
•  Configuration of vNetwork standard and distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

Storage
•  Storage management technologies

 Virtual Machines
•  Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCenter Converter, Guided Consolidation
•  Modifying, managing, and migrating virtual machines

Access Control
•  Controlling user access through roles and permissions

Resource Monitoring
•  Workload assessment, monitoring using vCenter Server

Scalability
•  VMware VMotion™ migrations
•  Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster(DRS)

High Availability and Data Protection
•  Setup of a VMware High Availability  cluster
•  Backup and recovery of virtual machines using VMware Data Recovery

Configuration Management
•  vCenter Update Manager for patching