4 Day Course

Performance-based objectives

In this hands-on training course, you will explore installation, configuration, and management of VMware Infrastructure, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter. Troubleshooting guidance, best practices, and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

• Functionality of VMware Infrastructure
• Install ESX Server
• Configure ESX Server networking and storage
• Install and configure VirtualCenter
• Control user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Deploy and manage virtual machines using VirtualCenter
• Allocate and monitor virtual machines' resources
• Ensure high availability of applications

Course Content

Lesson 1: VMWare Infrastructure Overview

• Infrastructure Components

Lesson 2: ESX Server Installation

• EXS Server Management

Lesson 3: VirtualCenter

• Managed Components
• Functional Components
• Access Privileges Components
• Optional VirtualCenter Components
• Configuring Permissions for Users
• Virtual Machines
• Managing Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Power States
• VMWare Tools

Lesson 4: Networking

Lesson 5: Resource Management

• Schedule Tasks
• Tasks and Events
• Alarms
• Resource Pools

Lesson 6: Storage

• Datastore

Lesson 7: Data and Availability Protection

• VMWare High Availability
• VMWare Consolidated Backup
• VMWare Converter

Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Special Cases

Appendix C: Sysprep Installation

Appendix D: Post-deployment Automatic Configuration Results

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