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
- Install and configure vCentre Server 4.0 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 vCentre Server 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 Server.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, datacentre infrastructure architects, systems engineers and operators as well as those interested in implementing ESXi 4.0 and/or vCentre Server 4.0. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge is 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 ESXi 4.0 and vCentre Server 4.0
- 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
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
- Centralised vs. single host licensing
- Building disc partitions
Installing vCentre Server 4.0
- Preparing the vCentre Server database
- Setting up your data connection
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
- Comparing vNetwork standard switches vs. vNetwork distributed switches
Establishing policies
- Implementing network policies for security
- Shaping network traffic
- Teaming network cards for performance
Accessing Shared Storage
Bringing up a datastore framework
- 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 SANs 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 VirtualCentre
Installing the vCentre components
- vCentre vs. vSphere Client
- Host-based licensing vs. License Server
- vSphere license keys
- Maintaining and adding an ESXi Server to the inventory
vCentre and multiple datacentres
- Adding an ESX Server to the inventory
- Directing an ESX Server to the License Server
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 ESX Servers
- Preserving VM states with snapshots
Securing Access to the Infrastructure
Setting up security
- Authoring vCentre permissions
- Establishing permission inheritance
- Assessing permissions at different inventory levels
Initiating Web access controls
- Providing end user access to VMs
- Logging into vCentre
- 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 datacentre 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
|
<< Back to UNIX, Linux and Open Source Course List
Related Courses
VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.
E-mail a Colleague
Print Friendly
FAQ
Course Details PDF
