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Installing and Configuring VMware® Infrastructure 3: Hands-On

Course: 171   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Deploy and configure a highly available virtual infrastructure with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
  • Allocate networking and storage resources
  • Create VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and Network File System (NFS) datastores
  • Install and configure VirtualCenter 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 VMware Infrastructure 3 enterprise environment using the VirtualCenter Server and VMware ESX Server.

Who Should Attend
System administrators, data center infrastructure architects, systems engineers and operators as well as those interested in implementing ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge is assumed.

Hands-on Training
Hands-on training exercises provide experience in designing and deploying a VMware virtual infrastructure and include:
  • Designing and implementing virtual switch plans and policies
  • Installing and configuring ESX and VirtualCenter Servers
  • Creating and cloning Virtual Machines from the VI Client 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 center topology to a virtual one
  • Sharing storage resources
Installing and Configuring ESX Server
First steps
  • Meeting VI3 minimum system requirements
  • Centralised verses single host licensing
  • Building disc partitions
Installing VirtualCenter
  • Preparing the VirtualCenter Server database
  • Setting up your data connection
Configuring Network Resources
Defining VI3 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
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 ESX 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 ESX Server with CHAP
Initiating VMFS data stores
  • Creating a VMFS
  • Extending a VMFS
Managing via VirtualCenter
Installing the VirtualCenter components
  • VMware Licence Server
  • VirtualCenter database
  • Virtual Infrastructure Client
Maintaining ESX server
  • Adding an ESX server to the inventory
  • Directing an ESX server to the Licence Server
VirtualCenter and multiple datacenters
  • Grouping datacenters 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
  • Provision 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 VirtualCenter permissions
  • Constructing ESX Server permission with a role
  • Assessing permissions at different inventory levels
Initiating Web access controls
  • Providing end user access to VMs
  • Logging into VirtualCenter
  • Managing VMs from the Web
Extending Resource Management
Handling resource pools
  • Allocating CPU and memory resources
  • Defining Shares, Reservations and Limits
  • Creating resource pools
VI3 enterprise features
  • 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)
  • Creating VM clusters
  • VMware Consolidated Backup
  

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Installing and Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3
Course Schedule
22 - 25 Jul, 2008
London
14 - 17 Oct, 2008
London
13 - 16 Jan, 2009
London

Participants directing an ESX server to a centralized licensing server.

£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 1,080 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 1,215 - 10-Training Vouchers
£ 1,300 - 5-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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