VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track

Description:

Course overview

This intensive, extended-hours training course covers the installation, management, and use of ESX Server, VirtualCenter, VMware DRS, VMware HA, and VMware Consolidated Backup. It subsumes the content from the VMware Infrastructure 3: Install & Configure and VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze training courses. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. A voucher for one attempt is awarded at completion.

Prerequisites

• Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity training experience
• Comfort with fundamental Linux commands (such as ls and cp) and a Linux text editor

Audience

This class is designed for experienced system administrators and system integrators who are responsible for scaling their organization’s deployment of VMware technology. This fast-track program is most suited for those willing to work hard to achieve superior VI skills with minimal time out of the office.

Course overview

This intensive, extended-hours training course covers the installation, management, and use of ESX Server, VirtualCenter, VMware DRS, VMware HA, and VMware Consolidated Backup. It subsumes the content from the VMware Infrastructure 3: Install & Configure and VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze training courses. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. A voucher for one attempt is awarded at completion.

Prerequisites

• Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity training experience
• Comfort with fundamental Linux commands (such as ls and cp) and a Linux text editor

Audience

This class is designed for experienced system administrators and system integrators who are responsible for scaling their organization’s deployment of VMware technology. This fast-track program is most suited for those willing to work hard to achieve superior VI skills with minimal time out of the office.

Ways to save

• Save with the HP Care Pack education service offerings
• Save with six or more students in the same class. An onsite dedicated training course (OST) at "your location or ours" can save you even more!

Course objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Perform manual and scripted ESX Server installations
• Install, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines using ESX Server and VirtualCenter
• Learn specific commands used to administer an ESX Server
• Understand and configure security on the Service Console
• Configure and implement VMware HA, DRS and VCB
• Perform fault analysis in Virtual Infrastructure

Next steps

• VMware Capacity Planner (HE633S)

Course outline

Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• VMware products: functions and applications

ESX Server Installation

• Set-up of ESX Server
• Perform a scripted ESX Server deployment for remote installation

Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups through the GUI interfaces and CLI

Storage

• Storage management technologies
• iSCSI storage access

VirtualCenter Installation

• Set-up of VirtualCenter

Creation and Management of VMs

• Use of templates
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter

Virtual Machine Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Resource Management

• VMotion migrations
• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources
• Create DRS enabled clusters
• Manage resource pools

Monitoring Your Environment

• Interpret performance graphs

Security in a Virtualized Environment

• Secure physical infrastructure
• Identify how virtual infrastructure mitigates common security vulnerabilities
• Secure access to storage, networks and Service Console

Data and Availability Protection

• Perform a backup using VMware Consolidated Backup
• Enable a VMware HA cluster

Troubleshooting

• Systematic isolation of problems
• Common symptoms, faults, fixes
• Resolve problems in VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3