VMware vSphere Install, Configure, Manage

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere™, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX and VMware vCentre Server. Upon completion of this course, you can opt for VCP examination.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware vSphere and be able to:

• Install and configure ESX
• Install and configure vCentre Server
• Configure and manage ESX networking and storage using vCentre Server
• Deploy and manage virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Increase scalability using vCentre Server
• Monitor resource usage using vCentre Server
• Apply patches using VMware vCentre Update Manager
• Manage higher availability and data protection using vCentre Server

Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Overview:

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere™, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX and VMware vCentre Server. Upon completion of this course, you can opt for VCP examination.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware vSphere and be able to:

• Install and configure ESX
• Install and configure vCentre Server
• Configure and manage ESX networking and storage using vCentre Server
• Deploy and manage virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Increase scalability using vCentre Server
• Monitor resource usage using vCentre Server
• Apply patches using VMware vCentre Update Manager
• Manage higher availability and data protection using vCentre Server

Best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

Target Audience:

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

Course Outline:

Introduction to virtualization

Various types of virtualization

Virtualization products comparison

Introduction to VMware vSphere

Discussion of vSphere components and Cloud Computing (Iaas and SaaS)

Installing and configuration of ESXi/ESX

Licensing and packaging
• Licensing changes,editions,kits and pricing.

Installing and Using VMware vCentre Server
• Install and configure vCentre Server, and use the VMware vSphere Client to manage vCentre Server inventory hierarchies

Networking
• Configuration of vNetwork standard and distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

Storage
• Storage management technologies

Virtual Machines
• Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCentre Converter, Guided Consolidation
• Modifying, managing, and migrating virtual machines

Access Control
• Controlling user access through roles and permissions

Resource Monitoring
• Workload assessment, monitoring using vCentre Server

Scalability
• VMware VMotion™ migrations
• Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster(DRS)

High Availability and Data Protection
• Setup of a VMware High Availability cluster
• Backup and recovery of virtual machines using VMware Data Recovery

Configuration Management
• vCentre Update Manager for patching