VM WARE VSPHERE 55 With ESXi And vCENTER ONLINE TRAINING

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VM WARE VSPHERE 5.5 With ESXi And vCENTER ONLINE TRAINING

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
Chapter 2: How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.5 Installable (HoL1)
Chapter 3: Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)
Chapter 4: NAS Shared Storage (HoL)
Chapter 5: Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)
Chapter 6: Configuring Identity Sources with Single Sign On (HoL)
Chapter 7: vCenter (HoL)
Chapter 8: VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones (HoL)
Chapter 9: ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)
Chapter 10: Using Fiber and iSCSI Shared Storage (HoL)
Chapter 11: VMFS The VMware File System (HoL)
Chapter 12: Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)
Chapter 13: ESX and vCenter Alarms (HoL)
Chapter 14: Host Profiles (HoL)
Chapter 15: Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone (HoL)
Chapter 16: Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery (HoL)
Chapter 17: VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion (HoL)
Chapter 18: Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler (HoL)
Chapter 19: Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters (HoL)
Chapter 20: Patch Management with VMware Update Manager (HoL)
Chapter 21: vSphere Replication (HoL)
Chapter 22: Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)
Chapter 23: Final Thoughts

Chapter 1: Virtualization Infrastructure Overview

Virtualization explained
How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
Common pain points in PC Server management
How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
VMware vSphere software products


Chapter 2: How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.5 Installable

Understanding ESXi
Selecting, validating and preparing your server
Storage controllers, disks and partitions
Software installation and best practices
Joining ESXi to a Domain
First look at the VMware vSphere Client


Chapter 3: Virtual and Physical Networking

vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
Creating VMkernel ports
Creating, sizing and customizing Virtual Switches


Chapter 4: NAS Shared Storage

Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
Shared Storage options
NFS Overview
Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
Troubleshooting NFS connections


Chapter 5: 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


Chapter 6: vCenter Server and the Next Generation Web Client

The need for Identity Source management
Installing and configuring the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
Connecting to Active Directory and other identity sources
vCenter feature overview, components and licensing
Organizing vCenter's inventory views
Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
Installing and Using the vSphere Next Generation vSphere Client (NGC)


Chapter 7: VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones

Templates - Virtual Machine 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
Adding and resizing virtual disks


Chapter 8: ESXi and vCenter Permission Model

VMware Security model
Configuring local users and groups
Managing local permissions
vCenter security model
Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
How permissions are applied


Chapter 9: Using Fiber and iSCSI Shared Storage

Fiber SAN overview
Identifying and using Fiber Host Bus Adapters
Scanning and Rescanning Fiber SANs
iSCSI overview
Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
Connecting to iSCSI storage
Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices


Chapter 10: VMware File System (VMFS)

Unique file system properties of VMFS
Managing shared Volumes
Creating new VMFS partitions
Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fiber and iSCSI SANs
VMFS performance considerations


Chapter 11: Resource Management and Resource Pools

How ESX delivers resources to VMs
Shares, Reservations and Limits
CPU resource scheduling
Memory resource scheduling
Resource Pools


Chapter 12: ESX and vCenter Alarms

Alarm categories and definitions
Creating custom alarms and actions
Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them


Chapter 13: Host Profiles

Using Host Profiles to capture an ESXi host configuration
Perform configuration compliance scans
Remediating out of compliance configuration issues
Rapid ESXi host deployment/configuration with Host Profiles


Chapter 14: Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone

vCenter 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


Chapter 15: Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery

Pro s and Cons of traditional back up strategies
Backing up VMs with VMware Data Recovery
Backing and restoring your ESXi server configuration
Third party VM backup solutions


Chapter 16: VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion

Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
Hot Migrations with VMotion
VMotion requirements and dependencies
How VMotion works detailed explanation
Troubleshooting VMotion
Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations


Chapter 17: 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
Per-VM cluster policy overrides


Chapter 18: Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time
VMware High Availability clusters
VMware Fault Tolerance


Chapter 19: Patch Management with VMware Update Manager

Configure and enable VMware Update Manager
Establishing a patch baseline
Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts

Chapter 20: VMware Replication

Establishing Time to Recovery requirements
Overview of SAN LUN replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager
Installing and configuring VMware Replication for individual VM replication
Replicating a VM
Recovering a replicated VM

Chapter 21: Managing Scalability and Performance

VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
Tuning VM storage I/O performance
Identifying and resolving resource contention
Monitoring VM and ESX host performance
Performance and capacity planning strategies


Chapter 22: Final Thoughts

Consolidation guidelines for VMs and Storage
Determining which workloads to consolidate
Other considerations


Hands On Labs

Attendees will complete the following hands on labs during the class: Install of ESXi 5.5 and perform post-install configurations:
Install and Configure ESXi
Create and update network Standard Virtual Switches
Define, connect to and browse NFS file shares
Create a Virtual Machine and install a guest OS into the VM. Install VMware Tools into the VM. Add 3rd party tools and utilities to the VM
Configure Single Sign On (SSO) identity sources including Active Directory
Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
Configure vCenter's inventory views to organize inventory objects
Install and configure the VMware Next Generation Web Client
Work with Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template. Rapidly deploy new VMs from template. Copy VMs using cloning. Use guest OS customization to easily change the identity of a VM. Create, update and deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Work with virtual disks. Hot add a secondary virtual disk. Grow a nonsystem volume. Grow a Windows system disk and increase its partitions without the need for 3rd party tools
Work with vCenter permissions. Use and customize Roles
Create, update and work with Network Standard vSwitches. Create NIC Teams for added performance and redundancy
iSCSI, Fiber Storage Area Networks. Connecting to shared storage
VMware VMFS VMware's proprietary cluster file system. How to create, tune and grow VMFS volumes
Resource management. Work with resource tuning settings. Create, manage and monitor Resource Pools
VM migration including Cold Migration, Storage Migration and VMotion
Automated VM resource load balancing with DRS clusters
Use HA clusters to minimize VM down time due to server failures
Backup and restore VMs using VMware Data Recovery
Using Converter Enterprise to migrate physical machines to VMsvCenter alarms for monitoring key infrastructure objects. Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM resource consumption
Set up VMware Update Manager to patch/update ESXi hosts
Installing, configuring VMware Replication. Replicating and recovering a VM with VMware Replication
Performance analysis and benchmarking storage and networking

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