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Deploying VMware® vSphere: Hands-On

 
Course: 171   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Deploy and configure a highly available virtual infrastructure with VMware vSphere
  • Allocate networking and storage resources
  • Create VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and Network File System (NFS) datastores
  • Leverage vCenter Server 5 for a secure and efficient virtualised IT environment
  • Secure the infrastructure to prevent unauthorised access
  • Pool resources for virtual machines with VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Course Benefits

Virtualising the infrastructure offers tremendous opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery. However, implementing an optimal configuration requires a thorough knowledge of the technology along with practical experience. This course prepares you to manage a vSphere-based enterprise environment using the vCenter Server 5 and ESXi 5 Server.

Who Should Attend

System administrators, data center infrastructure architects, systems engineers and operators, as well as those interested in implementing ESXi 5 and/or vCenter Server 5. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge are assumed. A basic familiarity with SAN storage is helpful.

Hands-On Training

Hands-on training exercises provide experience in designing and deploying a VMware vSphere and include:
  • Designing and implementing virtual switch plans and policies
  • Installing and configuring ESXi5
  • Configuring ESXi hosts directly through vCenter
  • Creating and cloning virtual machines from the vSphere and Web management interfaces
  • Moving a live VM using VMotion
  • Converting virtual machines to templates
  • Creating and managing resource pools

Related Courses

  • 170 Virtualisation Technologies Comprehensive Introduction
  • 367 TCP/IP Comprehensive Introduction
  • 289 Disaster Recovery Planning
  • 961 Windows Server 2008 Administration
  • 1200 Cloud Computing Comprehensive Introduction
  • 1220 Securing the Cloud

 
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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Deploying VMware® vSphere: Hands-On

 
Course: 171   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Enterprise Virtualisation Concepts

  • Virtualising physical hardware
  • Mapping a physical data centre topology to a virtual one
  • Sharing storage resources

Installing and Configuring ESXi Server

First steps

  • Meeting minimum system requirements
  • Walking through the installation steps
  • Working with the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)

Leveraging vCenter Server 5

  • vCenter vs. Direct Connection for management
  • Recognising and applying additional vCenter management objects

Configuring Network Resources

Defining vSphere network terminology

  • Utilising physical network resources
  • Establishing ports and port groups

Designing virtual switches

  • Engineering a virtual switch layout
  • Changing switch assignments and properties
  • Firewalling with virtual switches
  • Combining physical network cards for automatic failover
  • Comparing standard vswitches vs. distributed vswitches

Establishing policies

  • Implementing network policies for security
  • Shaping network traffic
  • Teaming network cards for performance

Accessing Shared Storage

Creating and managing a datastore

  • Configuring VMkernel access to LUNs
  • Setting up a Network File System (NFS) datastore
  • Ensuring continued access with multipathing
  • Comparing ESXi Server datastore options

Enabling Fibre Channel storage

  • Controlling access to the shared storage
  • Making Fibre Channel LUNs available

Completing iSCSI setups

  • Identifying the components of iSCSI
  • Authenticating the ESXi Server with CHAP

Initiating VMFS data stores

  • Creating a VMFS
  • Extending a VMFS

Managing via VirtualCenter

Installing the vCenter components

  • vCenter vs. vSphere Client
  • Host-based licensing vs. License Server
  • vSphere license keys
  • Maintaining and adding an ESXi Server to the inventory

vCenter and multiple data centres

  • Grouping data centres in folders
  • Combining hosts into a cluster

Working with Virtual Machines

Creating virtual machines

  • Creating a base virtual machine image
  • Enabling multiple CPUs with Virtual SMP

Customising advanced VM features

  • Improving performance with VMware Tools
  • Provisioning new VMs with templates and clones

Managing VMs

  • Moving VMs between ESXi Servers
  • Preserving VM states with snapshots

Securing Access to the Infrastructure

Setting up security

  • Authoring vCenter permissions
  • Establishing permission inheritance
  • Assessing permissions at different inventory levels

Initiating Web access controls

  • Providing end user access to VMs
  • Logging into vCenter
  • Managing VMs from the Web

Extending Resource Management

Handling resource pools

  • Allocating CPU and memory resources
  • Defining Shares, Reservations and Limits
  • Creating resource pools

vSphere enterprise features

  • Organising data centre clusters
  • Adding hosts to a High Availability (HA) cluster
  • Moving a powered-on VM to another machine with VMotion
  • Balancing resources with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • VMware Consolidated Backup
 
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Deploying VMware® vSphere: Hands-On

 
Course: 171   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
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