VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5

Description:

Course overview

This 4-day hands-on course explores VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter, and has been updated to reflect version 3.5. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course. This course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on lab.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems.

Audience

• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter.

Course outline

Virtual infrastructure overview

• Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components

ESX server installation

• Set-up of ESX Server

Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

Storage

• Storage management technologies

VirtualCenter installation

• Set-up of VirtualCenter

VM Creation and Management

• Use of templates
• Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Use of Guide Consolidation

Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Resource Management

• VMotion migrations
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU memory, and other resources

Resource Monitoring

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter

Data and Availability Protection

• Backup strategies
• Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster

Planning VI Deployment

• Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment