Summary
Course Objectives
- About all of the new and exciting features of
VMware® vSphere 4.1
- Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
- How to install, configure, and support ESX Server 4 and vCenter 4
- How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
- How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing.
- P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
- Server Consolidation procedures and reasoning
- Tools to support a virtual infrastructure -
VMware®, PlateSpin®, VizioncoreTM, Veeam, and more
- VMotionTM, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering - DRS/HA, etc.
- Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
- How to perform backups in the ESX environment -
Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB and Data Recovery
- How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX & ESXi Servers - ESX commands
- Configure and optimize storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and
Thin Provisioning
Chapter 1: Course Intro & Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview
Chapter 3: Planning & Installing ESX/ESXi 4
- Planning ESX 4 Server Deployment
- Deployment Guidelines
- ESX 4 Installation (HOL)
- ESXi 4 Server Install (HOL)
- Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
- Troubleshooting ESX 4 Server
Chapter 4: Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment
- Overview of 3rd Party Tools
- ESX/ESXI Management (vSphere Client, vCLI, Putty,
PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
- Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC).
Chapter 5: Configuring Networking
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
Chapter 6: Configuring Storage
- Storage Concepts
- iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Command Line)
- VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
(HOL)
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL).
Chapter 7: vCenter Server 4 and Licensing
- Licensing
- vCenter Server 4 Installation (HOL)
- vCenter Server 4 Inventory (HOL)
- Managing vCenter Server 4 (HOL)
- Planning vCenter Server 4
Deployment
- Troubleshooting vCenter
Server 4 Deployment.
Chapter 8: VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots
- Create a VM (HOL)
- Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones (HOL)
- Virtual Appliances (HOL)
- VMware vCenter Converter 4 (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
- Manage VMs (HOL)
- Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown
- Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
- Web Access (HOL)
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines.
Chapter 9: Security and Permissions
- Controlling User Access and passwords (HOL)
- ESX AD Integration (HOL)
- Managing Firewalls (HOL)
- SSH Access (HOL)
- Running Elevated Commands (su, sudo, setuid/setgid)
(HOL)
- VMSafe and vShield Zones (HOL).
Chapter 10: Server and VM Monitoring
- Optimizing Resources
- Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
- Configuring Alarms (HOL)
- ESX and vCenter Logs (HOL).
Chapter 11: Advanced ESX and vCenter Management
- Storage Views & Topology Maps
- Storage VMotion (HOL)
- Configuring VMotion (HOL)
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
- Resource Pools and Monitoring (HOL)
- vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches (HOL)
- Host Profiles (HOL)
- Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers.
Chapter 12: Patching and Upgrading ESX/ESXi
- Patching ESXServer 4 (HOL)
- Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
- Upgrades and Migrations (HOL)
- Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x (HOL).
Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- High Availability (HA) (HOL)
- VM Fault Tolerance
- Microsoft Clustering
- Backup Strategies
- Using VCB Command Line Utilities
- VMware Data Recovery (HOL)
- Third Party Backups (HOL)
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