VMware vSphere 5.0: Install, Configure, Manage

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere®, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server. The course is based on ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs.


Course objective
At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in vSphere 5 and be able to do the following:

• 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

Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

Module 1: Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, andvSphere components
• Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
• Install and use vSphere user interfaces

Module 3: Virtual Machines
• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine and virtual machine appliance

Module 4: VMware vCenter Server
• Identify vCenter Server and database requirements
• Describe vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server appliance
• View and create vCenter Server inventory objects

Module 5: Configure and Manage Virtual
Networks
• Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch
• Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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


Module 8: Access and Authentication Control
• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce vShield Zones

Module 9: Resource Management and Monitoring
• Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
• Introduce VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

Module 10: Data Protection
• Discuss strategies for backing up ESXi hosts
• Introduce the backup/recovery APIs
• Discuss strategies for backing up virtual machines

Module 11: High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Configure and manage a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
• Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance

Module 12: Scalability
• Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Using VMware HA and DRS together

Module 13: Patch Management
• Manage ESXi patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager

Module 14: Installing VMware vSphere 5
Components
• Introduce ESXi Installable installation
• Introduce vCenter Server installation
• Additional vCenter Server module installation

Forudsætninger

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Kurset henvender sig til

System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESXi, ESX, and/or vCenter Server