VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0]
Upcoming Class Date(s):
08-06-2012 - 08-10-2012
4/30/2012 - 5/4/2012 and 6/11 - 15/2012: Indianapolis 5/7 - 11/2012 and 6/18 - 22/2012: Louisville
Tuition: $5,495
Summary Class Description:
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5. It combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.0. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam. Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses.
Audience:
Experienced system administrators and system 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
Duration: 5 Days
Agenda:
1 Course Introduction
2 Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces
3 Create Virtual Machines
• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine
4 VMware vCenter Server
• Introduce vCenter Server architecture
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
• Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere datastores
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance
7 Virtual Machine Management
• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Create a vSphere vApp
8 Access and Authentication Control
• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Configure ESXi lockdown mode
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce VMware® vShield Zones
9 Resource Management and Monitoring
• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
10 High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Introduce new vSphere High Availability architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
11 Host Scalability
• Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Configure and manage a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
• Configure and manage vSphere Distributed Power Management
12 Network Scalability
• Create, configure, and manage vNetwork distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
13 Storage Scalability
• Introduce Storage I/O Control
• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and VASA
• Explain policy-driven storage
• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• Describe Storage DRS operation
• Create a datastore cluster for Storage DRS
• Configure Storage DRS
14 Data Protection
• Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
• Introduce the VMware Data Recovery appliance
• Discuss solutions for backing up virtual machines efficiently
15 Patch Management
• Use VMware vSphere® vCenter Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
• Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Scan and remediate hosts
16 VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Describe VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA)
• Configure vMA
• Discuss the esxcli and vicfg commands
• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring
17 Installing VMware Components
• Use vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
• Introduce VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Configure and manage vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host
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