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Course overview

This 1-day course is an excellent follow-on to the VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and configure course (HB513S). It provides students with the skills needed to effectively deploy and manage the VMware Virtual Infrastructure using ProLiant Essentials software.


Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have the following credentials or levels of experience:

  • An understanding of VMware Infrastructure 3
    • VMware ESX Server v3
    • VMware VirtualCenter v2
    • Virtual Machine management
    • VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and configure course (HB513S)

Audience

  • HP ProLiant System Administrators
  • VMware Administrstors

Benefits to you

  • Simplify Virtual Machine deployment and management
  • More effectively move applications from physical to virtual infrastructures
  • Describe HP Systems Insight Manager
  • Describe the architecture of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
  • Configure HP SIM for Virtual Infrastructure Management
  • Describe the functionality of the Virtual Machine Management (VMM) SIM plug-in
  • Install and use the (VMM) plug-in
  • Describe the functionality of the Server Migration Pack (SMP) SIM Plug-in
  • Install and use the SMP Plug-in

Course outline

Systems Insight Manager 5.1

  • Plug-ins for HP SIM 5.1
  • Selected recent features of HP SIM 5.1
  • HP Systems Insight Manager key features
  • Full function browser interface
  • Role-based security
  • Command line interface
  • Device discovery and identification
  • System and agent generated events
  • Application plug-ins
  • Collections
  • Reporting
  • Using HP SIM
  • Installing Systems Insight Manager
  • User configuration
  • Setting up the next discovery
  • Global protocol settings
  • Browsing discovered devices
  • Manual discovery

Virtual Machine Mangement Pack 2.1

  • What’s new with VMM 2.x?
  • Integration with HP SIM
  • Integration features
  • Benefits
  • Ideal environments
  • Technology overview (SIM Perspective)
  • VMM architecture
  • VMM supported configurations
  • VMM virtualization technology support
  • VMware VirtualCenter
  • Microsoft Virtual Server
  • Installing ProLiant Essentials Virtualization Management Software
  • Installing from the Management CD
  • Installing from the download website
  • VMM installation requirements
  • Installed components
  • Installing the VMM agent
  • Setting up the virtual machine host
  • Post-installation tasks
  • Licensing
  • Applying licenses to virtual machine hosts
  • Using VMM
  • Icons
  • Virtual machine host identification
  • Network traffic compression
  • Renaming the VMM service executables
  • Performance monitoring thresholds
  • Virtual machine host
  • Resource allocation
  • Troubleshooting VMM

VMM Operations

  • Post-installation tasks
  • Virtual machine guest identification
  • Using VMM tools and controls
  • Starting or stopping a virtual machine guest
  • Cloning a Virtual Machine
  • Move a Virtual Machine (Cold Migrate)
  • Live Migrate a Virtual Machine (VMotion)
  • Using templates
  • Create a template
  • Deploy a VM from a template
  • Backup options
  • Hot Backup workflow
  • Restore Virtual Machine
  • Virtual machine guest

Server Migration Pack

  • What’s new in SMP 2.x?
  • HP SIM integration
  • Features and benefits
  • SMP architecture
  • Deploying the SMP agent
  • Configuring VMware VirtualCenter
  • SMP licensing
  • Using SMP
  • HP SIM CMS prerequisites
  • Performing a P2V migration
  • Details of the P2V migration
  • Post-migration tasks
  • Virtual-to-virtual migrations
  • HP SIM CMS prerequisites
  • Performing V2V migrations
  • Post-migration tasks
  • Virtual to physical migrations
  • HP SIM CMS prerequisites
  • SMP boot cd (P2V and V2P)
  • Boot CD Hardware Discovery
  • Set the source IP address
  • V2P from the SIM Console
  • Post-migration tasks (V2P)
  • Operating system support

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