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You Will Learn How To
- Implement VMware and Microsoft virtual machine (VM) technologies
- Combine Windows and Linux workstations and servers on a single platform
- Leverage VMs to build testing, support and training environments
- Partition physical servers to decrease operating costs
- Migrate from physical to virtual machines
- Manage VMs throughout the enterprise
Course Benefits Virtual machines allow a computer to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, letting you partition servers to isolate applications, improve portability and migration, or create entire testing labs within a single PC. In this course, you gain the skills needed to install, configure and manage virtual servers and workstations. Hands-on exercises provide practical experience with virtual computing, virtual networks and optimising virtual machines.
Who Should Attend Those in desktop and server support or management roles. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge is assumed.
Hands-on Training Hands-on exercises provide experience deploying and administering virtual machines, including:
- Exploring the virtual machine interface
- Customising bridged, NAT & host-only virtual networks
- Invoking vendor-specific tools to enhance functionality
- Creating environments for support, testing & training
- Administering virtual servers remotely
- Scripting administrative tasks
- Performing physical to virtual machine migration
- Clustering virtual machines
- Examining effects of CPU resource allocation
- Installing and managing ESX Server
Course Content
- Defining virtual machines (servers and workstations)
- Advantages of deploying VMs
- VMware Workstation
- Server
- ESX
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- Virtual Server
- Other alternatives
- Functionality
- Performance
- Contrasting Windows and Linux hosts
- Partitioning shared resources
- Accessing raw and virtual disks
- Virtualising CPU and memory resources
- Planning for automatic installations
- Designing virtual networks
- Bridged, NAT and host-only networking
- Controlling guest OS access
- Allocating host resources
- Configuring virtual hard drives
- Enhancing VMs using virtualisation tools
- Managing peripheral devices
- Mapping to floppy and CD images
- Readying multiple operating systems
- Managing display modes
- Suspending and resuming virtual workstations
- Extending legacy application life
- Widening platform options
- Resolving version conflicts
- Accessing host files
- Taking and restoring snapshots
- Protecting guest operating systems
- Exploiting non-persistent disks
- Justifying server virtualisation
- Partitioning via hardware and software
- Recognising server functionality needs
- Evaluating performance and features
- Considering security implications
- Working in interactive mode
- Implementing headless operation
- Exploiting remote management consoles
- Connecting to the Web interfaces
- Securing remote management
- Automating tasks via scripting
- Migrating physical to virtual servers
- Optimising performance
- Accessing Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- Distributing workloads via network load balancing (NLB)
- Establishing fault tolerance by utilising clustering services
- Examining ESX Server architecture
- Planning & installation
- Achieving greater scalability
- Service console
- VMkernel
- Exploiting SANs
- Configuring access controls
- VMware VirtualCenter and VMotion
- Backing up virtual machines
- Relocating VMs for service continuity
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