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Course Name:   VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V4] Training
     
Deployment Options:   Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
     
Course Duration:   5-6 days depending on audience background and options
 
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Introduction:
 
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting VMware® vSphere™ and integrates advanced command line and scripting. It combines the complete content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4], VMware vSphere: Manage Availability [V4], and VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability [V4] courses with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
 
Audience
 
Experienced system administrators and systems integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office
 
Prerequisites
 
  • Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity training experience
  • Comfort with system administration using command line interfaces
 
Customize it:
 
This 5-6-day VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V4] course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of VMWare training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization?s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.
 
Objectives:
 

What You'll Learn

  • Install and configure VMware ESX™/ESXi, vCenter™ Server, and the vSphere Management Assistant
  • Configure, manage, and troubleshoot ESX/ESXi networking and storage
  • Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
  • Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure
  • Implement business continuity solutions
  • Manage changes to the vSphere environments
 
Course Outline
 

1. Introduction to VMware Virtualization

  • Virtualization and vSphere components
  • What virtualization is and how it works
  • Benefits of using a virtual machine
  • vSphere components
  • Scenarios for using virtualization

2. Configuring VMware ESX/ESXi

  • Overview of ESX/ESXi
  • --Features and versions of ESX/ESXi
  • --ESX/ESXi architecture
  • Configuring ESX/ESXi
  • --Accessing ESX/ESXi
  • --Configuring ESX/ESXi settings:
  • ----Processor and memory configuration
  • ----Licensing
  • ----NTP client
  • ----DNS and routing
  • User account best practices
  • Viewing ESX/ESXi system logs

3. Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server

  • Installing vCenter Server
  • --vSphere Server architecture and components
  • --Installing vSphere Server
  • --Installing vSphere Client
  • --Installing a vSphere Server additional module
  • Using vCenter Server
  • --Using the vSphere Client
  • --vSphere Server inventory objects
  • --Adding license keys to vCenter Server
  • --Viewing logs and events
  • --Creating a vCenter Server administrator
  • Installing vSphere Management Assistant
  • --Accessing vSphere Command Line Interface (vCLI)
  • --Installing vCLI or vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
  • --Entering commands and authentication parameters

4. Networking

  • vNetwork Standard Switches
  • --Components of a vNetwork standard switch
  • --vNetwork connection types
  • --vNetwork standard switch configuration
  • vSphere CLI Network Management
  • --Using vCLI to configure networking for an ESX/ESXi host
  • --Using the command line to configure networking for an ESX/ESXi host
  • vNetwork Distributed Switches
  • --Benefits of using vNetwork distributed switches
  • --vNetwork distributed switch architecture
  • --Creating a vNetwork distributed switch
  • --Managing a vNetwork distributed switch using the vSphere Client
  • Modifying Virtual Switch Properties
  • --Properties of a distributed switch
  • --Properties and policies of a distributed port group

5. Storage

  • Storage Concepts
  • --vSphere storage technologies and datastores
  • --Various ways to view storage information
  • --Storage device naming convention
  • Fibre Channel SAN Storage
  • --Uses of Fibre Channel with ESX/ESXi
  • --Fibre Channel components and addressing
  • --Accessing Fibre Channel storage
  • --Viewing Fibre Channel storage information
  • iSCSI Stoage
  • --Uses of iSCSI storage with ESX/ESXi
  • --iSCSI components and addressing
  • --Configuring iSCSI initiators
  • --Viewing iSCSI storage information
  • VMFS Datastores
  • --Creating, growing, and deleting a VMFS datastore
  • NAS Storage and NFS Datastores
  • --NFS components and addressing
  • --Creating an NFS datastore
  • --Viewing the contents of a datastore
  • --Unmounting an NFS Datastore
  • vSphere CLI Storage Management
  • --Using the command line to configure storage for an ESX/ESXi host

6. Virtual Machines

  • Virtual Machine Concepts
  • --What is a virtual machine?
  • --Virtual machine hardware and files
  • Creating a Virtual Machine
  • --Positioning a virtual machine
  • --Importing a virtual appliance
  • Creating Templates and Clones
  • --Creating a template and deploying a virtual machine
  • --Cloning a virtual machine
  • --Allowing guest operating system customization by vCenter Server
  • VMware vCenter Converter
  • --Capabilities of vCenter Converter
  • --Importing a system into vCenter Server
  • --Hot and cold cloning
  • Modifying Virtual Machines
  • --Virtual machine settings and options
  • --Adding a hot-pluggable device
  • --Increasing the size of a virtual disk using hot extend feature
  • --Adding an RDM
  • Managing Virtual Machines
  • --Virtual Machine snapshots
  • --Removing a virtual machine
  • --Different types of migration
  • --Migration using VMware Storage VMotion

7. Access Control

  • Roles and Permissions
  • --Define and create a permission
  • --Rules for applying permissions
  • --Creating a custom role
  • --Benefits of using VMware vSphere Web Access
  • --Tasks that can be performed in vSphere Web Access

8. Resource Monitoring

  • Virtual CPU and Memory Concepts
  • --Different methods used by the VMkernel for optimizing CPU and memory usage
  • Monitoring Resource Usage
  • --CPU
  • --Memory
  • --Disk
  • --Network bandwidth
  • Resource Monitoring with vSphere CLI
  • --Using the command line to retrieve performance data for an ESX/ESXi host
  • --Using commands: resxtop and vm-support
  • Using Alarms
  • --Creating alarms with condition-based triggers
  • --Creating alarms with event-based triggers
  • --Viewing and acknowledging triggered alarms

9. Scalability

  • Scaling CPU and Memory Management
  • --CPU and memory resource allocation settings
  • --What is a resource pool?
  • --Creating a resource pool
  • --Viewing resource allocation
  • Scaling VMFS Datastore Usage
  • --Thin provisioning
  • --Creating thin-provisioned virtual machines
  • --Virtual machine disk format
  • --Converting thin-provisioned disks to thick
  • --Virtual disk storage allocation and usage
  • --Risks associated with thin provisioning
  • --Monitoring VMware vStorage VMFS datastore usage
  • --Disk usage and disk over allocation alarms
  • Managing Multiple vCenter Server Inventories
  • --VMware vCenter Linked Mode components and operation
  • --Benefits and requirements of vCenter Linked Mode
  • --Joining a vCenter Server system to a Linked Mode group
  • --vCenter Server inventories in a Linked Mode group
  • --Isolating a vCenter Server system from a Linked Mode group
  • VMware VMotion Migration
  • --Importance of VMware VMotion
  • --VMotion requirements: Virtual machine and host
  • --Performing a VMotion migration
  • VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • --Functions of a DRS cluster
  • --Benefits of EVC
  • --Creating and viewing a DRS cluster
  • --Removing a host from a DRS cluster
  • VMware Distributed Power Management
  • --VMware DPM operation
  • --Comparing Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow! to VMware DPM
  • --Wake protocols
  • --Configuring VMware DPM

10. High Availability and Data Protection

  • High Availability (HA)
  • --vSphere features that support HA
  • --VMware HA functionality
  • --Enabling VMware HA in a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
  • --Configuring VMware HA settings
  • --Admission control policies
  • Troubleshooting VMware HA
  • --Operation of VMware HA with redundant networks
  • --Configuring redundant heartbeat networks and isolation test addresses
  • --Testing redundant HA networks
  • --Troubleshooting common VMware HA configuration issues
  • --Best practices when configuring VMware HA clusters
  • Fault Tolerance
  • --Benefits of VMware Fault Tolerance
  • --FT prerequisites
  • --FT operation and interoperability with other products
  • --FT best practices
  • --Configuring ESX fault-tolerance logging
  • --Configuring, monitoring, and testing a fault-tolerant virtual machine
  • VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • --Benefits and components of vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • --vCenter Server Heartbeat operation
  • --Installing, configuring, and monitoring a vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • --Performing a vCenter Server switchover
  • Data Protection
  • --Backing up ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines
  • --VMware data-protection solutions: VCB and data recovery
  • --Backing up a virtual machine using Data Recovery

11. Configuration Management

  • Host Profiles
  • --Host Profiles components and operation
  • --Host Profiles benefits
  • --Managing ESX/ESXi configuration compliance using a host profile
  • VMware vCenter Update Manager
  • --Update Manager capabilities and components
  • --Installing Update Manager
  • --Using Update Manager to create, attach, and remediate baselines

12. Installing VMware ESX and ESXi

  • ESX and ESXi Installation
  • --Choosing between ESX and ESXi
  • --Installing ESXi
  • --Installing ESX
  • ESX Scripted Installation
  • --ESX host installation methods
  • --Benefits of scripted installation
  • --Scripted installation components and operation
  • --Creating a kickstart file
  • --Performing a scripted installation
 

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