OneSource Professional Training Solutions, Inc. presents
 

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] On-Site Training

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]

Course Description/Agenda

In this hands-on, VMware®-authorized course based on ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0, you will learn to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere™, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server. You will spend approximately 40% of instruction time completing 20 hands-on labs.

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam (voucher not included). It also prepares you to enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere 5.0 courses.

What You'll Learn

• Install and configure ESXi
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

Who Should Attend

• System and network administrators
• Systems and network engineers
• Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Course Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Outline

1. VMware Virtualization

• Virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Server, network, and storage virtualization concepts
• Where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces

2. Virtual Machines

• Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine and virtual machine appliance

3. VMware vCenter Server

• vCenter Server and database requirements
• vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server appliance
• View and create vCenter Server inventory objects

4. Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

• Create and manage a standard virtual switch
• Modify standard virtual switch properties

5. Configure and Manage vSphere Storage

• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere datastores
• Configure, deploy, and manage the VMware Virtual Storage Appliance

6. Virtual Machine Management

• Deploy virtual machines using templates, cloning, and VMware vCenter Converter™
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform VMware vMotion® and Storage vMotion migrations

7. Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• vShield Zones

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

• Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
• VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

9. Data Protection

• Strategies for backing up ESXi hosts
• Backup/recovery APIs
• Strategies for backing up virtual machines

10. High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Configure and manage a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
• Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance

11. Scalability

• Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Using VMware HA and DRS together

12. Patch Management

• Manage ESXi patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager

13. Installing VMware vSphere 5 Components

• ESXi Installable installation
• vCenter Server installation
• Additional vCenter Server module installation

Labs

Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces

• Access your student desktop system
• Install the vSphere Client
• Install the Web Client (Server)

Lab 2: Configuring VMware ESXi

• Connect to an ESXi host with the VMware vSphere Client
• View host hardware configuration
• Configure DNS and routing information for an ESXi host
• Configure the ESXi host as an NTP client

Lab 3: Working with Virtual Machines

• Create a virtual machine
• Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine
• Identify a virtual machine's disk format and usage statistics
• Install VMware Tools into a virtual machine installed with a Windows operating system
• Enable time synchronization between a virtual machine and an ESXi host
• Copy programs from CD to your virtual machine

Lab 4: Configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance

• Configure the vCenter Server appliance with a web browser
• Configure vCenter Server appliance to use directory services
• Register VMware vSphere Web Client with vCenter Server appliance
• Connect to the vCenter Server appliance with the vSphere Client

Lab 5: Using VMware vCenter Server

• Create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object
• Create vCenter Server inventory folder objects
• Add your ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory
• Manage vSphere license keys

Lab 6: Standard Virtual Switches

• View the current standard virtual switch configuration
• Create a standard virtual switch with a virtual machine port group
• Attach your virtual machine to the ProdVMs port group

Lab 7: Accessing IP Storage

• Add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch
• Configure the iSCSI software adapter
• Configure access to NFS datastores
• View iSCSI and NFS storage information

Lab 8: Managing VMware vSphere VMFSL

• Review your shared storage configuration
• Change the name of a VMFS datastore
• Create a VMFS datastores
• Expand a VMFS datastore to consume unused space on a LUN
• Remove a VMFS datastore
• Extend a VMFS datastore

Lab 9: Using Templates and Clones

• Create a template
• Copy Sysprep files to the vCenter Server appliance
• Create customization specifications
• Deploy a virtual machine from a template
• Clone a virtual machine that is powered on

Lab 10: Modifying a Virtual Machine

• Increase the size of a VMDK file
• Adjust memory allocation on a virtual machine
• Rename a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
• Add a raw LUN to a virtual machine and verify that the guest operating system can see it
• Expand a thin-provisioned virtual disk

Lab 11: Migrating Virtual Machines

• Create a virtual switch and VMkernel port group for vMotion migration
• Verify that your ESXi host meets vMotion requirements
• Verify that your virtual machine

   

  More Seminar Information

  OneSource Professional Training Solutions, Inc. Delivery Method  On-Site Training Also Available As  Seminar