VMware Ultimate Bootcamp

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Five Day Course

Course Description

The focus of the VMware VI3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp is to instill the knowledge required for the student to do their job efficiently and effectively. To accomplish this, we provide a comprehensive Beginner to Advanced training experience, starting from the installation of the licensed product to real world troubleshooting scenarios. The course focus is not limited only to learning and harnessing the power of VMware® but the entire concept of virtualization and other 3rd party tools and technologies that will enhance VMware® capabilities and increase the student’s virtualization expertise.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

About all of the new and exciting features of VMware Infrastructure 3.5
Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
How to install, configure and support ESX server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5
How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
How to configure Virtual Networking and how to support VMotion
P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P Methods and Techniques
Server Consolidation Procedures and reasoning
Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware, Platespin, Vizioncore, Veeam, and more
Vmotion, Update Manager, Power Management, Guided Consolidation, Clustering –DRS/HA,etc.
Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
How to perform backups in the ESX Environment - Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB
How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX Servers - ESX commands
How to install, configure, and troubleshoot ESX Licensing server.

Prerequsites

This course is for System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter. The course is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience, Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.

Course Content

Planning & Installing ESX

ESX Server Install
ESX Architecture and Boot process
Planning ESX Server Deployment

Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment

Patching and Upgrading ESX

Patching ESX Server
Upgrades and Migrations
VI3 Deployment Guidelines
Configuring Hostname Resolution & NTP
Troubleshooting ESX Server

Configuring Networking

Create & Modify Virtual Networks
Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI

Configuring Storage

iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line)
Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Command Line)
VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
Raw Device Mapping (RDM)
Storage Comparisons

VirtualCenter and License Server

Licensing
VirtualCenter Installation
VirtualCenter Inventory
Managing VirtualCenter
Planning VirtualCenter Deployment
Troubleshooting VirtualCenter, License and Database

VM Creation and Configuration &Snapshots

Create a VM
Create Multiple VMs
Physical to Virtual Conversions
Manage VMs
Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown
Virtual Machine Snapshots
Web Access
Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Security and Permissions

Security Overview
User Access
ESX AD Integration
Managing Firewalls
SSH Access
Configuring Sudo

Advanced ESX and VirtualCenter Management

Configuring Resource Pools
Configuring VMotion
Storage vMotion
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Resource Pools in DRS Clusters
Update Manager
Storage VMotion

Disaster Recovery and Backup

Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
High Availability (HA)
Microsoft Clustering
Backup Strategies
Using VCB Command Line Utilities
Third Party Backups

Server and VM Monitoring

Tools for Optimization
Monitor VM Performance
Configuring Alarms
Collecting Log Files

Installing and Configuring ESXi

ESXi Server Install
Managing ESXi with the VIC
Managing ESXi through VirtualCenter

Deploying and Managing vSphere4 and ESX 4

ESX 4 vSphere 4 Overview
ESX 4 Installation & Upgrade
vSphere Management

For more information on Acumen Classes
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