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Citrix NetScaler 10.5 Essentials and Networking
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is recommended for learners who are new to the NetScaler platform or currently networking professionals.
Course Duration:
5 days
Course Objectives:
- Identify the capabilities and functionality of the NetScaler
- Explain basic NetScaler network architecture
- Obtain, install, and manage NetScaler licenses
- Explain how SSL is used to secure the NetScaler
- Implement NetScaler TriScale Technology, including Clustering
- Configure advanced load balancing and GSLB on the NetScaler system
- Optimize the NetScaler system for traffic handling and management
- Customize the NetScaler system for traffic flow and content-specific requirements
- Demonstrate monitoring and reporting through native NetScaler logging tools
- Employ recommended tools and techniques to troubleshoot common NetScaler network and connectivity issues
- Identify the unique capabilities and functionality of the NetScaler SDX platform
- Identify the networking characteristics of the NetScaler SDX platform
- Explain the process of provisioning and administration of NetScaler VPX instances on a NetScaler SDX appliance
Course Outline:
- Getting Started
- Introduction to the NetScaler System
- NetScaler Functionality
- NetScaler Overview
- Product Features
- NetScaler Operating System Overview
- Hardware Platforms
- Hardware Components
- nCore Configuration Architecture
- Deployment Scenarios
- Logging in to the NetScaler System
- NetScaler Licenses
- Performing an Upgrade
- Basic Networking
- OSI Networking Model
- NetScaler Architecture Overview
- NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses
- Network Topology
- NetScaler Network Interfaces
- Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
- IP Routing
- Determining the Source IP Address
- Packet Forwarding
- Use Source IP Mode
- Client-IP HTTP Header Insertion
- Path MTU Discovery
- Link Aggregation
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- High Availability
- High Availability Functionality
- High Availability Node Configuration
- Propagation and Synchronization
- High Availability Management
- Securing NetScaler
- NetScaler System Communication
- Access Control Lists
- Access Control List Configuration
- Detailed Access Control List Configuration
- Users, Groups, and Command Policies
- External Authentication for System Users
- Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing (AAA) Issues
- Authentication Troubleshooting
- Basic Load Balancing
- Load Balancing Basics
- Entity Management
- Server Creation
- Services Configuration Overview
- Virtual Server Creation
- Binding Virtual Servers to Services or a Service Group
- Traffic Types
- Service Monitoring
- Persistence and Persistence Connections
- Load-Balancing Configuration Protection
- Advanced Services Options
- Maintaining of Client Connection for Multiple Client Requests
- Specified Source IP Addresses for Back-End Communication Using Network Profiles
- Disabling Services
- Graceful Shutdown of Services
- Removing Services
- Configuration Verification
- The Load-Balancing Visualizer
- Configuring Load Balancing for DataStream
- Link Load Balancing
- Configuration of Sessionless Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
- Load-Balancing Issues
- Use of Telnet or Monitors to Check Ports
- SSL Offload
- SSL
- SSL Session Process
- Feature and Benefits
- Offload Performance
- Digital Certificates
- SSL Administration
- SSL Offload Overview
- Deployment Scenarios
- Citrix Recommendations for SSL
- SSL Renegotiation Attack
- SSL Troubleshooting
- Intermediate Certificate Not Linked
- Global Server Load Balancing
- GSLB Deployment Methods
- GSLB Concepts
- GSLB Entities
- GSLB DNS Methods
- Metric Exchange Protocol
- Implementing GSLB
- Viewing and Configuring GSLB with the Visualizer
- Configuring Site-to-Site Communication
- RPC Node Password
- Encryption of Site Metrics Exchange
- Source IP Address for an RPC Node
- GSLB Site Communication Example
- Customizing the GSLB Configuration
- Changing the GSLB Method
- GSLB Persistence
- Using Dynamic Weights for Services
- Monitoring GSLB Services
- Binding Monitors to a GSLB Service
- Monitoring GSLB Sites
- Protecting the GSLB Setup Against Failure
- Responding with an Empty Address Record When DOWN
- Backup IP Address Configuration for a GSLB Domain
- Implementing GSLB Failover for Disaster Recovery
- AppExpert Classic Policy Engine
- Policies Overview
- Expression Structures
- Content Filtering
- Content Filtering Actions
- Content Filtering Rules
- AppExpert Default Policy Engine
- Understanding Packet-Processing Flow
- Understanding Policies
- Policy Process Evaluation Flow
- Identifying Default Policy Expressions
- Actions
- Understanding Bind Points
- Understanding Policy Labels
- Pattern Sets
- Typecasting
- Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transformation
- Rewrite, Responder and URL Transform
- Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
- Responder Actions
- Respondwith
- Responder Action for Timeouts
- Responder Policies
- Responder HTML Page Imports
- Binding Policies
- URL Transformation
- URL Transformation Actions
- Binding of URL Transformations
- Content Switching
- Introduction to Content Switching
- Understanding Content Switching
- Content Switching Based on Network Characteristics
- Content-Switching Virtual Servers and Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
- Configuring Content-Switching Virtual Servers
- Configure a Load-Balancing Setup for Content Switching
- Content-Switching Policies
- Binding Content-Switching Policies
- Content-Switching Rule Precedence Without Priority Specified
- Content-Switching Rule Precedence with Priority Specified
- Configuring Content Switching for DataStream
- Optimizing Traffic
- Introduction to Compression
- Action Analytics
- AppExpert Templates
- Terminiology
- Deploying NetScaler for an Application
- Application Example
- AppExpert Template Deployment
- Clustering
- How Clustering Works
- Cluster Synchronization
- Cluster Connections
- Cluster Communication Interfaces
- Striped and Spotted IP Addresses
- Traffic Distribution
- Cluster and Node States
- NetScaler Cluster Set Up
- NetScaler Cluster Traffic Distribution Mechanisms
- To Configure a Cluster Link Aggregation Group Statically
- Dynamic Configuration for a Cluster Link Aggregation Group
- NetScaler Cluster Management
- NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting
- Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring Needs
- NetScaler Log Management
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- To Configure SMNPv1 and SMNPv2
- AppFlow on the NetScaler System
- AppFlow Collectors and EdgeSight Monitoring
- AppFlow Actions and EdgeSight Monitoring Responder Policies
- Third-Party Collectors
- Network Traffic Capture using NSTRACE
- Troubleshooting with Filter Expressions
- Decoding SSL Traffic with Wireshark
- Display NetScaler System Information
- Addendum: Citrix NetScaler 10.1 Essentials for SDX Appliances
- Identify the Unique Capabilities and Functionality of the NetScaler SDX Platform
- Identify the Networking Characteristics of the NetScaler SDX Platform
- Explain the Process of Provisioning and Administration of NetScaler VPX Instances on a NetScaler SDX Appliance
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Citrix NetScaler 11 Advanced Implementation
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
Designed for students with previous NetScaler experience, this course is best suited for individuals who will be deploying or managing advanced NetScaler environments. Specifically, administrators, implementers/engineers and architects.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
We recommend students participate in Citrix NetScaler 10.5 Essentials and Networking prior to taking this course.
Course Objectives:
- Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities
- Write PERL compatible regular expressions
- Configure Citrix Application Firewall to protect web applications
- Troubleshoot Citrix Application Firewall
- Install and configure NetScaler Insight Center to monitor performance
- Install, configure and use Citrix Command Center to manage NetScaler devices
- Configure and use additional advanced features of NetScaler including NetScaler Web Logging, HTTP callout and AAA authentication for web applications
Course Outline:
- Getting Started
- Introduction to the NetScaler System
- Advanced Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Resources
- NetScaler System Overview
- nCore Configuration Architecture
- Built-In Tools
- Real-Time Performance Statistics
- Historical Statistics
- Third-Party Tools
- Introducing Application Firewall
- Application Attacks
- The Benefits of Application Firewall
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- Packet Processing Inspection
- Profiles and Policies
- Profiles and Policies
- Profiles
- Policies
- Engine Settings
- Regular Expressions
- Forms of Regular Expressions
- Using Regular Expressions
- Metacharacters and Literal Characters
- Metacharacters
- Escapes
- Quantifier
- Back Referencing
- Look Heads
- Regular Expression Scope
- Attacks and Protections
- Security Checks
- HTTPS Web Applications
- Buffer Overflow Exploits and Protection
- Parameter Manipulation
- Server Misconfiguration
- Deny URL Protection
- SQL Injection
- HTML SQL Injection Protection
- Command Injection
- Field Format Protection
- Cookie Tampering and Poisoning
- Cookie Consistency Protection
- Form/Hidden Field Manipulation
- Form Field Consistency Protection
- Forceful Browsing
- Start URLs
- Backdoors and Misconfigurations
- URL Closure
- Identity Theft Attacks
- Credit Card Protection
- Protecting Credit Cards
- Errors Triggering Sensitive Information Leaks
- Safe Object Protection
- Application Firewall Troubleshooting
- Application Firewall
- Configuration Issues
- Queuing and Connection Tuning
- HTTP Connections
- HTTP Connection Management and NetScaler
- HTTP Behavior
- TCP Buffering
- Surge Queue
- Surge Protection
- Priority Queuing
- HTTP Denial-of-Service Protection
- Authentication, Authorization and Auditing
- Users, Groups and Command Policies
- External Authentication for System Users
- AAA for Traffic Management
- Configuration
- Audit Logging
- AppExpert Rate Limiting, HTTP Service Callout and Policy-Based Logging
- HTTP Callouts
- Configuring HTTP Callouts
- HTTP Callout Use Cases
- Configuring Rate Control
- Rate Control Policy Scenarios
- Policy-Based Logging
- Command Center
- Command Center Introduction
- Command Center Clients
- Server Requirements
- Port Setting Requirements
- Command Center Installation
- Command Center Functionality
- Command Center Administration
- Insight Center
- Insight Center Overview
- AppFlow on the NetScaler System
- How Insight Center Collects AppFlow Data
- HDX Insight
- HTML Injection
- NetScaler Web Logging
- NetScaler Web Logging Introduction
- NetScaler System Configuration
- NSWL Client Installation
- NSWL Client Configuration
- Troubleshooting Web Logging
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Deploying App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is recommended for solution designers such as Architects, Consultants, and Engineers
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Before taking this course, we recommend students have:
- An understanding of server, desktop and application virtualization concepts
- Experience with Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2, specifically:
- Active Directory
- Remote Desktop Services
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Performance Monitoring
- Group Policy Objects
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Course Objectives:
- Set up the hypervisor
- Set up the infrastructure components
- Set up XenDesktop 7.6 components
- Configure XenDesktop 7.6 resources (Server OS machines, hosted applications and Desktop OS machines)
- Configure profiles and policies
- Set up Provisioning Services
- Validate the implementation
- Set up NetScaler to provide external access to XenDesktop 7.6 resource
Course Outline:
- Understanding the XenDesktop Architecture
- Understanding the XenDesktop Architecture
- XenDesktop Desktop Virtualization Technologies
- Infrastructure Components
- Citrix Components
- Designing a XenDesktop Implementation
- Design Document
- Setting Up the Hypervisor
- Setting Up the Hypervisor
- Installing the Hypervisor
- Installing the Hypervisor Management Console
- Configuring the Hypervisor
- Creating Templates
- Reinforcement Exercise – Creating a Windows 7 Template
- Setting Up the Infrastructure Components
- Setting Up the Infrastructure Components
- Setting Up the Domain Controller
- Setting Up the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- Setting Up a Certificate Authority
- Setting Up the File Server
- Setting Up SQL Server 2012
- Setting Up SQL Server Mirroring
- Reinforcement Exercise – Redirecting Additional Folders
- Setting Up Citrix Components
- Setting Up Citrix Components
- Setting Up the Citrix License Server
- Setting Up the Delivery Controller
- Setting Up a Second Controller
- Setting Up the Citrix Universal Print Server
- Setting Up StoreFront
- Setting Up a Second StoreFront Server
- Setting Up Receiver
- Reinforcement Exercise – Using the Receiver for Web Site
- Setting Up XenDesktop Resources
- Setting Up XenDesktop Resources
- Resource
- Preparing the Master Virtual Machine
- Setting Up a Server OS Master Image
- Setting Up a Desktop OS Master Image
- Creating a Machine Catalog
- Creating a Delivery Group
- Reinforcement Exercise – Adding Machines and Delivery Groups
- Setting Up Policies
- Setting Up Policies
- Installing the Group Policy Management Feature
- Configuring Printing Policies
- Configuring Remote Assistance
- Prioritizing the Policies
- Running the Resultant Set of Policy
- Setting Up Citrix Profile Management
- Reinforcement Exercise – Configuring a Session Printer
- Setting Up Provisioning Services
- Setting Up Provisioning Services
- Provisioning Services Architecture
- Setting Up a Provisioning Services Server
- Installing the Provisioning Services Console
- Configuring Boot from Network
- Setting Up a Second Provisioning Services Server
- Configuring the BootStrap File for High Availability
- Configuring the Master Target Device
- Creating the vDisk
- Assigning a vDisk to a Target Device
- Creating the Machine Catalog
- Creating the Delivery Group
- Reinforcement Exercise – Creating BDM Target Devices
- Preparing the Environment for Rollout
- Preparing the Environment for Rollout
- Testing a Service Account
- Testing the DHCP Scope
- Testing the Certificates
- Testing the Provisioning Services Share
- Verifying Internal Access to Hosted Applications
- Verifying Internal Access to a Server OS Machine (PVS)
- Verifying Internal Access to a Desktop OS Machine
- Testing Remote Assistance
- Testing Delivery Controller High Availability
- Testing SQL Server Mirroring
- Reinforcement Exercise – Verifying Internal Access to a Server OS Machine (MCS)
- Setting Up NetScaler
- Setting Up NetScaler
- Performing the Initial NetScaler Configuration
- Configuring NTP
- Configuring NetScaler High Availability
- Setting Up DNS
- Creating Certificates for NetScaler
- Load Balancing StoreFront Servers
- Configuring NetScaler for Remote Access
- Redirecting HTTP Requests for StoreFront
- Modifying StoreFront to Integrate with NetScaler
- Configuring ICA Proxy
- Configuring Authentication Policies
- Configuring NetScaler for Email-Based Account Discovery
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Managing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is recommended for Operators and Administrators that need to manage an existing XenApp or XenDesktop 7.6 solution.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Before taking this course, we recommend students have:
- An understanding of server, desktop and application virtualization concepts
- Experience with Windows Server 2012 R2, specifically:
- Active Directory
- Domains
- Groups and User Accounts
- Organizational Units
- Group Policy Objects
- Experience with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 user interfaces
- Basic storage knowledge (manage existing storage types, add new storage)
- Basics of Citrix licensing
- Familiarity with at least one hypervisor (XenServer, Hyper-V, or vSphere)
- Basic understanding of the different types of profiles (local, roaming, mandatory)
Course Objectives:
- Understand the XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 architecture, components, and communication
- Delegate administration and manage licenses
- Manage the XenApp and XenDesktop infrastructure
- Create and manage machine catalogs and Delivery Groups
- Manage StoreFront
- Create and manage policies and end-user profiles
- Manage sessions, sites, and end users with Director
- Manage printing
- Manage Provisioning Services
Course Outline:
Understanding the Architecture of a XenApp and XenDesktop Solution
- XenApp or XenDesktop
- XenApp and XenDesktop Architecture Overview
- User Layer
- Citrix Receiver
- Access Layer
- Citrix NetScaler
- Citrix StoreFront
- Discussion Question
- Control Layer
- Delivery Controller
- Machine Creation Services
- Citrix Provisioning Services
- Hypervisor
- Virtual Delivery Agent
- Discussion Question
- Resource Layer
- Applications
- Operating System Image
- Citrix Profile Management
- Policies
- Personal vDisk
- Management Layer
- Citrix Studio
- Citrix Director
- Discussion Question
- XenApp and XenDesktop Sites
- Ports
- New Features
- Deprecated Features
- Discussion Question
- Reinforcement Exercise: XenDesktop 7 Components
Managing Licenses and Delegating Administration
- Managing Licenses in Studio
- Discussion Question
- Types of Licenses
- Downloading, Allocating, and Importing a License File
- To Download, Allocate, and Import a License File
- Discussion Question
- Adding a License Administrator
- To Add a License Administrator
- Managing Delegated Administration
- Administrators
- Roles
- Scopes
- To Add an Administrator
- To Create a Custom Scope Using Studio
- To Edit a Custom Scope
- To Create a Custom Role
- To Edit a Custom Role
- To Edit an Administrator’s Permissions
- Running a Delegated Administration Report
- To Run a Delegated Administration Report
- Discussion Question
- Using PowerShell
- Discussion Question
- Monitoring Configuration Logs
- To Display Configuration Log Content
- To Generate Configuration Log Reports
- To Change the Configuration Log Settings
- Discussion Question
- Troubleshooting: Managing Licenses and Delegated Administration
- Reinforcement Exercise: Configuring Roles and Scopes
Managing and Monitoring the Hypervisor
- Architecture Overview
- Creating a Virtual Machine from an ISO
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- To Create a Virtual Machine From an ISO
- To Install a Windows OS onto a Virtual Machine
- Installing XenServer Tools
- To Install XenServer Tools on a Virtual Machine
- Generalizing the Virtual Machine
- To Generalize the Virtual Machine
- Creating a Template
- To Create a Template from a Virtual Machine
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- Managing Virtual Machines within a Hypervisor
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- To Create a Virtual Machine Using XenCenter
- Taking a Snapshot
- To Take a Snapshot in XenCenter
- Discussion Question
- Restoring a Virtual Machine From Sysprep
- To Restore a Virtual Machine from Sysprep
- Copying a Virtual Machine
- To Copy a Virtual Machine Using XenCenter
- Discussion Question
- Reverting to a Snapshot
- To Revert to a Snapshot in XenCenter
- Discussion Question
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- Adjusting Virtual Machine or Template Resources
- Adding Storage to a Virtual Machine or Template
- To Add Storage to a Virtual Machine or Template in XenCenter
- Adjusting the Storage Allocated to a Virtual Machine
- To Adjust the Storage Allocated to a Virtual Machine in XenCenter
- Adjusting the Memory Allocated to a Virtual Machine or Template
- To Adjust Virtual Machine or Template Memory Allocations in XenCenter
- Adjusting vCPUs Allocated to a Virtual Machine or Template
- To adjust the vCPUs allocated to a Virtual Machine or Template in XenCenter
- To Remove a Virtual NIC in XenCenter
- Managing a Virtual NIC
- To Remove a Virtual NIC in XenCenter
- To Add a Virtual NIC in XenCenter
- To Adjust a Virtual NIC in XenCenter
- To Activate or Deactivate a Virtual NIC in XenCenter
- Discussion Question
- Adding Storage to a Virtual Machine or Template
- Configuring and Customizing Alerts
- To Configure and Customize Alerts in XenCenter
- Discussion Question
- Troubleshooting: Managing and Monitoring Hypervisors
- Reinforcement Exercise 1: Creating a Virtual Machine Template
- Reinforcement Exercise 2: Completing the Setup Process After a Sysprep
Managing StoreFront
- StoreFront Architectural Overview
- StoreFront Components
- StoreFront Communication
- Discussion Question
- StoreFront Management Console
- Creating a New Store
- To Create and Add a New Store
- Creating Anonymous User Stores
- To Create a Store for Anonymous User Access
- Hiding a Store
- To Hide a Store
- Discussion Question
- Managing Authentication
- Configuring Authentication
- To Configure Authentication Methods
- Discussion Question
- Configuring Authentication
- Enabling End Users to Change Their Passwords
- To Enable End Users to Change Expired Passwords
- Managing Delivery Controllers
- Adding Delivery Controllers
- To Add Delivery Controllers
- To Remove Delivery Controllers
- Discussion Question
- Adding Delivery Controllers
- Removing a Store
- To Remove a Store
- Discussion Question
- Troubleshooting: Managing StoreFront
- Reinforcement Exercise: Creating and Configuring a New Store
Managing Policies and Profiles
- Policy Precedence (Studio vs. Group Policy Objects)
- Creating Policies Using Studio
- Unfiltered Policy
- Using a Policy Template in Studio
- To Create a Policy from a Template
- To Create a Policy Using Studio
- Applying a Policy Using Studio
- To Apply a Policy
- Editing a Policy Using Studio
- To Edit a Policy
- Prioritizing Policies Using Studio
- To Prioritize a Policy
- Discussion Questions
- To Create a Computer Template in Studio
- Exporting a Policy Template Using Studio
- To Export a Policy Template
- Importing a Policy Template Using Studio
- To Import a Policy Template
- Running the Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP)
- To Create the RSOP Using the Group Policy Management Console
- Creating Policies Using Group Policy
- Creating and Applying a Group Policy Object
- To Create a GPO
- Editing a Group Policy Object
- To Edit a Policy
- Using a User Template with Group Policy
- To Use a User Template
- Discussion Question
- Importing a Policy Template with Group Policy
- To Import a Policy Template
- Exporting a Policy Template with Group Policy
- To Export a Policy Template
- Prioritizing a Policy Using Group Policy
- To Change the Priority of a Policy
- Discussion Question
- Creating and Applying a Group Policy Object
- Troubleshooting: Managing Policies
- Managing End-User Profiles
- Configuring Folder Redirection
- To Configure Folder Redirection
- Managing Profile Settings Using Citrix Policies
- To Manage Profile Settings Using Citrix Policies
- Resolving Conflicting Profiles
- To Resolve Conflicting Profiles
- Streaming End-User Profiles
- To Stream End-User Profiles
- Discussion Question
- Configuring Folder Redirection
- Troubleshooting: Profile Management
- Reinforcement Exercise 1: Working with Policies
- Reinforcement Exercise 2: Working with Profiles
Managing and Monitoring Sessions, Sites, and End Users with Director
- Director Overview
- To Monitor an End-User Session
- To Access Director
- Monitoring within the Director Dashboard
- Monitoring Infrastructure
- To Monitor the Infrastructure
- Monitoring Connected Sessions
- To Monitor Connected Sessions
- Monitoring Logon Duration Averages
- To Monitor Logon Duration Averages
- Monitoring Machine and End-User Connection Failures
- To Monitor End-User Connection Failures
- Monitoring Infrastructure
- Monitoring and Managing End-User Sessions
- Viewing End-User Sessions
- To View End-User Sessions
- Searching for an End User
- To Search for an End User
- Monitoring End-User Applications
- To Monitor End-User Applications
- Monitoring End-User Machine Processes
- To Monitor End-User Machine Processes
- Managing an End User’s Machine Power Status
- To Manage an End User’s Machine Power Status
- Enabling or Disabling Maintenance Mode
- To Enable or Disable Maintenance Mode
- Resetting an End-User Profile
- To Reset an End-User Profile
- Viewing End-User Sessions
- Discussion Question
- Monitoring HDX Channels
- To Monitor HDX Channels
- Sending a Message to an End User
- To Send a Message to an End User
- Shadowing an End-User Session
- To Shadow an End-User Session
- Disconnecting an End-User Session
- To Disconnect an End-User Session
- Logging an End User Off
- To Log an End User Off
- Discussion Question
- Monitoring Historical Trends
- To Monitor Historical Trends
- Troubleshooting: Managing Sites, Sessions, and End Users with Director
- Reinforcement Exercise: Using Director
Managing Printing
- Print Management Process
- Default Printing Behavior
- Configuring Client Printing
- Modifying Client Printer Auto-Creation
- To Modify Client Printer Auto-Creation Behavior
- Discussion Question
- Adding Session Printers
- To Add Session Printers
- Modifying Client Printer Auto-Creation
- Managing Printer Drivers
- Automatic Installation of In-Box Printer Drivers
- To Configure the Automatic Installation of Printer Drivers
- Configuring Printer Driver Mapping and Compatibility
- To Configure Printer Driver Mapping and Compatibility
- Universal Printer Driver
- Controlling Universal Printing Behavior
- Automatic Installation of In-Box Printer Drivers
- Optimizing Printing Performance
- To Configure Printing Optimization
- Discussion Question
- Setting Up and Managing the Universal Print Server
- To Set Up and Manage the Universal Print Server
- Troubleshooting: Managing Printing
- Reinforcement Exercise: Managing Printing
Managing Provisioning Services
- Citrix Provisioning Services
- Machine Creation Services or Provisioning Services
- Provisioning Services Overview and Architecture
- Discussion Question
- Navigating the Provisioning Services Console
- To Navigate the Provisioning Services Console
- To Create a Provisioning Services Master Virtual Machine
- To Install the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)
- Creating the vDisk
- To Convert the Hard Drive of the Master Target Device to a vDisk
- Setting the vDisk Mode
- To set the vDisk Mode
- Creating the Machine Catalog
- To Create a Diskless Target Device Template
- To Create the Machine Catalog
- Discussion Question
- To Assign a Machine Catalog to a Delivery Group
- Discussion Question
- To Update a vDisk
- Promoting Updated Versions
- To Promote Updated vDisk Versions
- Discussion Question
- VHD Chain of Differencing Disks
- Merging VHD Differencing Disks
- To Merge VHD Differencing Disks
- Troubleshooting: Provisioning Services
- Reinforcement Exercise: Provisioning Services
OPENSTACK
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Introduction to OpenStack Administration
Course Number:
N/A
This hands-on introductory course will introduce OpenStack and teach participants to administer a private cloud. Other topics covered include installation, configuration and automation.
Audience:
This course is designed specifically for administrators responsible for a private cloud.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
- Introduction to OpenStack (One-Day)
- OpenStack Introduction (Half-Day)
- OpenStack and Private Cloud Overview
- OpenStack Project History
- OpenStack Features
- OpenStack Private Cloud (Half-Day)
- Driving IT Agility
- OpenStack Use Cases
- OpenStack Architecture
- OpenStack Demo
- Installation and Configuration (One-Day)
- OpenStack Installation
- OpenStack Storage Setup
- OpenStack Compute Setup
- OpenStack Networking Setup
- OpenStack Setup (Half-Day)
- OpenStack Security Model and Setup
- OpenStack Multi-Tenant Architecture
- Troubleshooting OpenStack
- OpenStack Private Cloud Operations and Integration (One-Day)
- Monitoring OpenStack
- OpenStack Disaster Recovery
- Upgrading OpenStack Installation
- Growing and Scaling OpenStack Private Cloud
- OpenStack Automation and Integration (Half-Day)
- OpenStack Automation
- OpenStack Orchestration
- OpenStack as a Private Cloud: Metering and Chargeback
- OpenStack in a Hybrid IT Data Center: Legacy Environment Integration
VMWARE
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VMware Certified Associate Boot Camp (v6.0)
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is intended for candidates seeking to attain entry-level System Administration positions that require exposure to virtual infrastructure technologies
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Participants should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server instance
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, virtual SAN, and Virtual Volume
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
- Use VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Introduce VMware vRealize Operations Manager to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
- Manage VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Understand VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Data Protection to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
- Use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability
- Learn about vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Understand VMware vSphere Update Manage to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
- VMware Testing and Certification Readiness
Course Outline:
- Course Introduction, References, and Datacenter
- Exploring the Virtualization Platform with VMware
- Plan, Install, and Configure ESXi
- Plan, Install, and Configure ESXi
- Plan and Deploy Virtual Machines
- Install and configure vCenter Server
- Configure and Mange Virtual Networks and Switches
- Configure and Manage Virtual Storage
- VM Templates, Clones, Snapshots, and Migration
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- Host Scalability and Clusters
- vRealize Operations Manger
- Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Update Manager, Patching and Upgrades
- Third Party Tools
- Exam Preparation and Certification Readiness
- Migrating Virtual Machines
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VMware vSphere 5.1 Boot Camp
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
System architects, security specialists, operators, performance and capacity analysts, backup administrators, business continuity specialists and storage administrators
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
Install ESXi Server according to best practices
Configure and manage local storage
Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments
Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
Define and use file share (NAS) datastores
Install, configure Single Sign On services and vSphere Inventory Services
Install, configure and administer VMware vCenter for Windows
Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
Configure and use hotplug hardware including hot-add vCPUs and Memory
Add and grow virtual disks including system disks and secondary volumes
Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN,
Deploy and use VMware Data Protection to back up and recover VMs
Create and manage load balanced clusters
Enable, configure and use Distributed Power Management to reduce electrical power by soft powering off unneeded ESXi servers
Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures
Configure VMs for zero unplanned downtime by deploying vSphere Fault Tolerance
Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
Create, administer, back up and recover vNetwork Distributed Switches
Troubleshoot common problems
Course Outline:
Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
Virtualization explained
How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
Common pain points in PC Server management
How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
VMware vSphere software products
How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.1 Installable
Understanding ESXi
Selecting, validating and preparing your server
Storage controllers, disks and partitions
Software installation and best practices
Joining ESXi to a Domain
First look at the VMware vSphere Client
Virtual and Physical Networking
vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
Creating VMkernel ports
Creating, sizing and customizing Virtual Switches
NAS Shared Storage
Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
Shared Storage options
NFS Overview
Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
Troubleshooting NFS connections
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
VM virtual hardware, options and limits
Sizing and creating a new VM
Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
Working with a VM’s BIOS
VMware remote console applications
Installing an OS into a VM
Driver installation and customization
vCenter Server and the Next Generation Client
The need for Identity Source management
Installing and configuring Single Sign On (SSO)
Connecting to Active Directory and other identity sources
vCenter feature overview and components
VMware Licensing
Registering vCenter with SSO
Organizing vCenter’s inventory views
Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
Installing and Using the vSphere Next Generation vSphere Client (NGC)
VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
Templates – Virtual Machine Golden Master images
Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
Patching, and refreshing Templates
Cloning, one time copies of VMs
Best practices for cloning and templating
Adding and resizing virtual disks
Advanced Virtual Machines
Enabling and using VM Hotplug in virtual hardware
CPU and Memory hot plug
Virtual NIC hot plug
Customizing Virtual CPUs for optimal performance
Enabling 3D hardware/software Video for desktop VMs
ESXi and vCenter Permission Model
VMware Security model
Configuring local users and groups
Managing local permissions
vCenter security model
Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
How permissions are applied
Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
Fibre SAN overview
Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
iSCSI overview
Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
Connecting to iSCSI storage and scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
Raw Device Maps
Connecting VMs directly to SAN LUNs
Physical vs. Virtual Raw Device Maps
Impact of vMotion, Storage vMotion on RDMs
VMware File System (VMFS)
Unique file system properties of VMFS
Creating and manage VMFS capacity with LUN spanning, LUN expansion
Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
VMFS performance considerations
Resource Management and Resource Pools
How ESX delivers resources to VMs
Shares, Reservations and Limits
CPU resource scheduling
Memory resource scheduling
Resource Pools
ESX and vCenter Alarms
Alarm categories and definitions
Creating custom alarms and actions
Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them
Host Profiles
Using Host Profiles to capture an ESXi host configuration
Perform configuration compliance scans
Remediating out of compliance configuration issues
Rapid ESXi host deployment/configuration with Host Profiles
Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone
vCenter Converter overview
Converting physical machines, virtual machines and OS Images
Cold migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
Hot migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Protection
Pros and cons of traditional back up strategies
Backing up VMs with VMware Data Protection
Backing and restoring your ESXi server configuration
Third party VM back up solutions
VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion
Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
Hot Migrations with VMotion
VMotion explanation, requirements, dependencies and troubleshooting
Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
Load Balancing w. DRS Clusters
Delegated resource management with Resource Pools
Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
Per-VM cluster policy overrides
DRS Power Management
Understanding the role of Power Management
Configuring individual ESXi hosts to enable soft power-off
Testing vCenter power-off/power-on of ESXi hosts
DRS Power Management settings
Storage I/O Control and Storage DRS
Storage I/O scheduling policies
Enabling Storage I/O control to implement share based storage access
Creating DRS Storage Clusters
Tuning DRS Storage Clusters to balance out I/O loads and LUN capacity
Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters
High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time
VMware High Availability clusters
VMware Fault Tolerance
HA Fault Tolerance
Delivering zero unplanned VM downtime with faulFault Tolerance overview, features and limitations
Configuration, monitoring and recovery
FT ESXi hosts and network compatibility requirements
Creating and administering FT VMs
Patch Management with VMware Update Manager
Configure and enable VMware Update Manager
Establishing a patch baseline
Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts
Advanced Virtual Networking
Understanding, creating and administering vNetwork Distributed Switches
Migrating Standard vSwitch configurations to dvSwitches
Backing up and recovering dvSwitches
Troubleshooting and repairing dvSwitches
vSwitch Security
Traffic Shaping
NIC Teaming strategies – Originating Port, MAC Hash, IP Hash, NIC Load and LACP
Managing Scalability and Performance
VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
Tuning VM storage I/O performance
Identifying and resolving resource contention
Monitoring VM and ESX host performance
Performance and capacity planning strategies
Final Thoughts
Consolidation guidelines for VMs and Storage
Determining which workloads to consolidate
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VMware vSphere Professional Camp (v6.0)
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is intended for new and experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators with 1 to 3 years of experience working in an administration role seeking superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office
Course Duration:
Prerequisites:
Participants should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems and an understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals Course for VCA-DCV Certification.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the software defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create a virtual machine
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of storage
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Create a vApp
- Describe and use the content library
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
- Use VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Use VMware vRealize Operations Manager to identify and solves issues through analytics and alerts
- Manage VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Data Protection to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
- Use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability
- Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi host, virtual machines, and vCenter Server Operations
Course Outline:
- Course Introduction and Overview
- VMware Certified Professional Course Introduction
- Course Overview
- Overview of Lab and Data Center Environment
- Virtualization
- Virtualization foundation
- Exploring virtualization
- IP Addresses
- Business Opportunity
- Cloud Overview
- Introducing VMware
- VMware vSphere Editions
- VMware vSphere Features
- Building a Virtualization Platform
- Exploring vSphere Desktop Client
- Exploring Web Client
- Plan, Install, and Configure
- Planning ESXi
- Installing ESXi
- Direct Console User Interface Overview (DCUI)
- DCUI Administration Tasks
- Virtual Machine
- Planning a Virtual Machine
- Provisioning a Virtual Machine
- SCSI
- Virtual Machine Paths
- Creating a Virtual Machine Path
- Virtual Machine Appendix
- Exploring vCenter Server
- Planning vCenter Server
- Installing vCenter Server
- Configuring vCenter Server
- Manage vCenter Server
- Single Sign-On Overview
- Single Sign-On Deployment Methods
- Troubleshooting vCenter Single Sign-On
- Creating vCenter Server Folders
- Networking & Switches
- vSphere Networking Overview
- Understanding Physical Switches
- Understanding Virtual Switched
- Switch Configurations
- Standard vSwitch Settings
- More Standard vSwitch Settings
- vSphere Distributed Switches
- Managing vSphere Distributed Switches
- Troubleshooting Switches
- Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
- Private VLAN
- Storage
- vSphere Storage Overview
- Installing vSphere Storage
- Configuring vSphere Storage
- Storage-Fibre Channel
- Storage-VM File Systems
- Network file Systems (NFS)
- Solid State Drives
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Manage Virtual Machines
- Basic VM Management
- Resource Management
- Virtual Machine CPU Management
- Virtual Machine Reporting
- Provisioning and Reclamation
- VMware Converter
- Manage vSphere vApps
- vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Clusters and Affinity Rules
- vSphere Distributed Power Management
- Clusters
- vSphere Clustering
- Microsoft Clustering
- Business Continuity
- Understanding Business Continuity
- Latency
- High Availability
- Understanding High Availability
- Configuring High Availability
- Fault Tolerance
- Templates and Clones
- Snapshots
- Backup and Disaster Management
- Backup Options
- Disaster Recovery Solution
- Memory Management
- Resource Pools
- Permissions
- Balancing Resource Utilization
- Migrating Virtual Machines
- Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance
- Performance Monitoring
- Performance Badges
- Understanding What If Options
- Performance Monitoring 3rd Party Tools
- Alarms
- Patching, Updating and Upgrading
- Patch and Update ESXi and VMs
- Upgrading ESXi and VMs
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting ESXi Hosts
- Troubleshooting Networking
- Troubleshooting Storage
- Troubleshooting VMs
- Best Practices
- Appendix
- Appendix 1- Third Party Advanced Installation Options
- Appendix 2- Distributed Switch Configuration and Management
- Appendix 3- VMware vCloud Director
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VMware vSphere 5.1 with ESXi and vCenter
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
- Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
- Install ESXi Server according to best practices
- Configure and manage local storage
- Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments
- Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
- Define and use file share (NAS) datastores
- Install, configure and administer VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
- Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
- Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
- Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
- Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
- Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN,
- Deploy and use VMware Data Recovery to back up and recover VMs
- Create and manage load balanced clusters
- Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures
- Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
- Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
- Replicate critical VMs to protect against data loss and service loss
- Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
- Troubleshoot common problems
Course Outline:
HoL – Indicates a hands-on lab at the end of the chapter
- Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- Common pain points in PC Server management
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
- How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.5 Installable (HoL)
- Understanding ESXi
- Storage controllers, disks and partitions
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to a Domain
- First look at the VMware vSphere Client
- Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)
- vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
- Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
- Creating VMkernel ports. Creating, sizing, customizing Virtual Switches
- NAS Shared Storage (HoL)
- Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
- Shared Storage options
- NFS Overview
- Configuring ESXi to use NFS Shares
- Troubleshooting NFS connections
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Sizing and creating a new VM
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
- Working with a VM’s BIOS
- VMware remote console applications
- Installing an OS, VMware Tools into a VM
- vCenter Server and the Next Generation Client (HoL)
- vCenter feature overview and components
- Single Sign On and Inventory Service
- Import and configure vCenter Server Appliance (VSA)
- VMware Licensing
- Organizing vCenter’s inventory view
- Importing ESXi hosts into vCenter management
- Installing and Using the vSphere Next Generation vSphere Client (NGC)
- VM Rapid Deployment w. Templates, Clones (HoL)
- Templates – Virtual Machine Golden Master images
- Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
- Patching, and refreshing Templates
- Best practices for cloning and templating
- Adding and resizing virtual disks
- ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)
- VMware Security model
- Configuring local users and groups
- Managing local and vCenter permissions
- Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
- How permissions are applied
- Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage (HoL)
- Fibre SAN overview
- Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
- Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
- iSCSI overview
- Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
- Connecting to iSCSI storage
- Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
- Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
- VMFS – The VMware File System (HoL)
- Unique file system properties of VMFS
- Managing shared Volumes
- Creating new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- VMFS performance considerations
- ESXi and vCenter Alarms (HoL)
- Alarm categories and definitions
- Creating custom alarms and actions
- Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them
- Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)
- How ESXi delivers resources to VMs
- Shares, Reservations and Limits
- CPU resource scheduling
- Memory resource scheduling
- Resource Pools
- Consolidation with vCenter Converter (HoL)
- vCenter Converter overview
- Converting physical machines, virtual machines and OS Images
- Cold migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
- Hot migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
- VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion (HoL)
- Cold Migrations to new ESXi hosts, datastores
- Hot Migrations with VMotion
- VMotion requirements and dependencies
- How VMotion works – detailed explanation
- Troubleshooting VMotion
- Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
- Load Balancing with DRS Clusters (HoL)
- Delegated resource management with Resource Pools
- Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
- Per-VM cluster policy overrides
- Rapid VM Recovery with HA Clusters (HoL)
- High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time
- VMware High Availability clusters
- VMware Fault Tolerance
- Host Profiles (HoL)
- Using Host Profiles to capture an ESXi host configuration
- Perform configuration compliance scans
- Remediating out of compliance configuration issues
- Rapid ESXi host deployment/configuration with Host Profiles
- VMware Replication
- Establishing Time to Recovery requirements
- Overview of SAN LUN replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Installing and configuring VMware Replication for individual VM replication
- Replicating a VM
- Recovering a replicated VM
- Patching ESXi hosts with Update Manager (HoL)
- Configure and enable VMware Update Manager
- Establishing a patch baseline
- Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts
- Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)
- VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
- Tuning VM storage I/O performance
- Identifying and resolving resource contention
- Monitoring VM and ESXi host performance
- Performance and capacity planning strategies
- Final Thoughts
- Consolidation guidelines for VMs and Storage
- Determining which workloads to consolidate
- Protecting against virtual machine leakage/theft
- Other considerations
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vSphere Install, Configure, Manage (v6.0)
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This course is intended for system administrators and/or system engineers.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Participants should have system administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems and understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course for VCA-DCV certification.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the software-defined data center
- Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
- Describe vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client
- Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
- Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage
- Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
- Create a vApp
- Describe and use the content library
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
- Use VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Describe and use the content library
- Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere vMotion
- Use VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
- Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
- Use VMware vRealize Operations Manager to identify and solve issues through analytics and alerts
- Manage VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Use VMware vSphere Replication and VMware vSphere Data Protection™ to replicate virtual machines and perform data recovery
- Use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters to improve host scalability
- Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to apply patches
- Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
Course Outline:
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Software-Defined Data Center
- Introduce components of the software-defined data center
- Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
- Install and use vSphere Client
- Overview of ESXi
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Introduce virtual machines, virtual hardware, and virtual machine files
- Create and work with virtual machines
- vCenter Server
- Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
- Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliances
- Install and use vSphere Web Client
- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
- Explain the benefits of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
- Introduce storage protocols and storage device names
- Discuss ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
- Create and manage VMware vSphere VMFS datastores
- Introduce VMware Virtual SAN
- Virtual Machine Management
- Use template and cloning to deploy virtual machines
- Modify and manage virtual machines
- Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migration
- Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
- Create a vApp
- Introduce the various types of content libraries and how to deploy and use them
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
- Configure and manage resource pools
- Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
- Use v Center Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
- Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events
- Introduce vRealize Operations Manager for data center monitoring and management
- vSphere HA and vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Explain the vSphere HA architecture
- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
- Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
- Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
- Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual machines
- Introduce vSphere Replication
- Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and restore
- Host Scalability
- Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
- Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
- vSphere Update Manager and Host Maintenance
- Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
- Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere Update
- Manager plug-in
- Create patch baselines
- Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
- Scan and remediate hosts
- Installing VMware Components
- Introduce ESXi installation
- Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
- Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
- Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
- Discuss installation of vCenter Server Appliance and a vCenter Server instance
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VMware vSphere 5.5 Advanced Administration
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure
Course Duration:
4 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should be familiar with VMware vSphere 4.x or 5.x. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
- Virtualization Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
- Desktop Virtualization overview, tricks and traps
- Virtual Desktop strategy using Windows Server 2008 as a desktop
- Understanding VMware’s licensing options. Save money and buy only what you need
- Install, Configure ESXi 5.1
- Selecting, validating and preparing your server
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to an Active Directory Domain
- Install ESXi 5.1 so we can perform an upgrade to 5.5
- Understand and configure vSphere Standard Switches
- Connecting to and using NFS file shares
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Creating and sizing VMs
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware including hotplug
- Working with a VM’s BIOS
- Installing and customizing an OS for best performance
- Virtual hardware versions and capabilities
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vCenter Virtual Appliance feature overview and components
- Installing and post-install configuration
- vCenter components; Single Sign On, Inventory Service and vCenter
- Sizing vCenter Appliance
- Database options and limitations
- Web Client vs. vSphere Client. How and when to use each client
- Upgrading vCenter, ESXi and Virtual Machines
- How to upgrade the vCenter Appliance from vCenter Appliance from version 5.0/5.1 to version 5.5
- How to upgrade vCenter Server on Windows
- Strategies for upgrading ESXi hosts using VUM, Auto Deploy and manually
- Perform an ESXi in-place upgrade
- How to complete a VM virtual hardware upgrade
- Advanced Virtual Networking
- Distributed virtual switches, distributed Port Groups
- Migrating configurations from Standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
- NIC teaming strategies/options for redundancy and performance
- Connecting to vLANs
- Enhanced Network Security, Load Balancing and NIC Teaming
- Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
- Connecting to, scanning, rescanning for SAN volumes
- Working with Raw Device Maps
- Designing Networks for Optimum iSCSI performance, reliability
- VMware APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) features and benefits
- Checking for VAAI SAN capability
- Storage Alignment. What it is and how to manage/fix it
- VMFS 5 File Systems
- Unique file system properties of VMFS 5 filesystems
- Creating, managing new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 volumes. Upgrading vs. wipe and remake
- DRS Load Balanced Clusters, DRS Power Mgt.
- Cold Migrations, Hot VMotion migrations
- Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
- Create and manage host CPU, memory resources with VMware DRS
- VM cluster policy settings including Admission Control
- Configuring and enabling Power Management on DRS clusters
- Using local SSDs as VM paging and SAN read cache volumes
- Profile Driven Storage
- User and SAN defined storage profile policies
- Perform compliance checks on VM storage placements
- Identify and fix VM storage compliance issues
- Datastore Clusters and Storage DRS
- Storage I/O Control
- How to manage storage capacity, load using Storage DRS
- Create, update Storage DRS datastore clusters
- Identify and eliminate storage performance issues
- VMware HA and Fault Tolerance
- VMware High Availability clusters options
- Fault Tolerance overview, features and limitations
- Configuration, monitoring and recovery
- FT ESXi hosts and network compatibility requirements
- Creating and administering FT VMs
- vSphere Replication
- Configure vSphere Replication
- Enable Replication withing a vSphere Environment
- Understand and set Recovery Point Objectives
- Hot VM replication with VMware Replication
- VMware Data Protection
- Import vSphere Data Protection applicance
- Configuring and using VMware Data Protection
- Enable VM backup
- Recover a VM from backup
- Perform File Level Recoveries (FLR)
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Desktop Virtualization with VMware View 5.1
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
System architects, senior administrators, secuirty specialists, operators, Vmware customers, managers
Course Duration:
4 days
Prerequisites:
Success in VMware’s View virtual desktop virtualization suite is dependent on familiarity with VMware’s server virtualization products as well as familiarity with common tools and technology found in most IT departments.
Because of our Do-It-Yourself approach to View training, you do not need to be expert in all aspects of desktop and VMware installation and administration. However, some familiarity with the following topics will help:
- Installing, configuring and administering ESXi 5.0 and vCenter 5.0
- Building virtual machines from scratch and also from clones and templates
- Understanding and using VM Spec files that assist in rapid VM deployment
- Working with shared storage resources including SAN LUNs and NAS shares
- Using VMware Thin and Thick virtual disks
- Integrating desktops into an Active Directory environment
Course Objectives:
- Explain the many significant benefits of desktop virtualization
- Install and configure VMware View according to best practices
- Create, administer and manage desktop pools
- Deploy traditional and linked-clone virtual desktops
- Build and run local mode virtual desktops
- Create secure desktop connections through untrusted public networks
- Deploy virtual applications using VMware ThinApp
Course Outline:
- Introduction to Desktop Virtualization
- Virtualization basics
- Server virtualization explained
- Desktop virtualization explained
- Features and benefits of desktop virtualization
- VMware View
- VMware View features and components
- VMware View Composer
- VMware View Manager
- VMware ThinApp
- Connection Services
- Installing VMware Connection Services
- Configuring and administering Connection Services
- Virtual Desktops
- Desktop display protocols including RDP, ICA and PCoIP
- VMware View desktop agent
- Working with virtual desktop removable media
- Managing virtual desktop USB connections
- Building a hybrid physical/virtual desktop environment
- View Client Options
- Working with the View Client
- View Client in Local Mode
- Thin client options
- Connecting to printers and other network resources
- Administering VMware View
- Dedicated virtual desktops
- Floating virtual desktops
- Virtual desktop session management
- Virtual desktop user management
- Managing virtual desktop access and permissions
- View Composer, Linked Clone Virtual Desktop
- Creating Linked clone virtual desktop base images
- Deploying Linked Clone virtual desktop instances
- Administering persistent virtual disks
- Work with VMware View Composer
- VMware View database administration
- View Security Server and View Replica Server
- Sizing your virtual desktop deployment
- Monitoring key performance metrics
- Scaling your virtual desktop environment
- Using VMware vSphere components to manage performance and availability
- VMware ThinApp
- Application virtualization with VMware ThinApp
- Creating and publishing virtual applications
- Controlling access to virtual applications
- Security
- Security overview for virtual desktops
- Authentication options for user access
- Planning and implementing network security
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VMware vSphere 5.5 Advanced Administration
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure
Course Duration:
4 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should be familiar with VMware vSphere 4.x or 5.x. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
- Virtualization Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
- Desktop Virtualization overview, tricks and traps
- Virtual Desktop strategy using Windows Server 2008 as a desktop
- Understanding VMware’s licensing options. Save money and buy only what you need
- Install, Configure ESXi 5.1
- Selecting, validating and preparing your server
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to an Active Directory Domain
- Install ESXi 5.1 so we can perform an upgrade to 5.5
- Understand and configure vSphere Standard Switches
- Connecting to and using NFS file shares
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Creating and sizing VMs
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware including hotplug
- Working with a VM’s BIOS
- Installing and customizing an OS for best performance
- Virtual hardware versions and capabilities
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vCenter Virtual Appliance feature overview and components
- Installing and post-install configuration
- vCenter components; Single Sign On, Inventory Service and vCenter
- Sizing vCenter Appliance
- Database options and limitations
- Web Client vs. vSphere Client. How and when to use each client
- Upgrading vCenter, ESXi and Virtual Machines
- How to upgrade the vCenter Appliance from vCenter Appliance from version 5.0/5.1 to version 5.5
- How to upgrade vCenter Server on Windows
- Strategies for upgrading ESXi hosts using VUM, Auto Deploy and manually
- Perform an ESXi in-place upgrade
- How to complete a VM virtual hardware upgrade
- Advanced Virtual Networking
- Distributed virtual switches, distributed Port Groups
- Migrating configurations from Standard vSwitches to dvSwitches
- NIC teaming strategies/options for redundancy and performance
- Connecting to vLANs
- Enhanced Network Security, Load Balancing and NIC Teaming
- Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
- Connecting to, scanning, rescanning for SAN volumes
- Working with Raw Device Maps
- Designing Networks for Optimum iSCSI performance, reliability
- VMware APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) features and benefits
- Checking for VAAI SAN capability
- Storage Alignment. What it is and how to manage/fix it
- VMFS 5 File Systems
- Unique file system properties of VMFS 5 filesystems
- Creating, managing new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 volumes. Upgrading vs. wipe and remake
- DRS Load Balanced Clusters, DRS Power Mgt.
- Cold Migrations, Hot VMotion migrations
- Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
- Create and manage host CPU, memory resources with VMware DRS
- VM cluster policy settings including Admission Control
- Configuring and enabling Power Management on DRS clusters
- Using local SSDs as VM paging and SAN read cache volumes
- Profile Driven Storage
- User and SAN defined storage profile policies
- Perform compliance checks on VM storage placements
- Identify and fix VM storage compliance issues
- Datastore Clusters and Storage DRS
- Storage I/O Control
- How to manage storage capacity, load using Storage DRS
- Create, update Storage DRS datastore clusters
- Identify and eliminate storage performance issues
- VMware HA and Fault Tolerance
- VMware High Availability clusters options
- Fault Tolerance overview, features and limitations
- Configuration, monitoring and recovery
- FT ESXi hosts and network compatibility requirements
- Creating and administering FT VMs
- vSphere Replication
- Configure vSphere Replication
- Enable Replication withing a vSphere Environment
- Understand and set Recovery Point Objectives
- Hot VM replication with VMware Replication
- VMware Data Protection
- Import vSphere Data Protection applicance
- Configuring and using VMware Data Protection
- Enable VM backup
- Recover a VM from backup
- Perform File Level Recoveries (FLR)
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VMware vSphere 5.1 Advanced Administration
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
vSphere Administrators, system architects, security specialists, performance and capacity analysts , storage administrators and business continuity specialists
Course Duration:
4 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have good familiarity with VMware vSphere 4.x or 5.0. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
- Virtualization Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
- Install, Configure ESXi 5.1
- Selecting, validating and preparing your server
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to an Active Directory Domain
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Creating and sizing VMs
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual HardwareWorking with a
- VM’s BIOS
- Installing and customizing an OS for best performance
- vCenter on Windows
- vCenter feature overview and components
- Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
- vSphere Web Client Installation and Use
- vCenter Linux Virtual Appliance
- vCenter Virtual Appliance feature overview and components
- Installing and post-install configuration
- Sizing vCenter Appliance
- Database options and limitations
- Advanced VM Deployment, Virtual Hardware
- Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
- Best practices for cloning and templating
- Adding, resizing virtual disks and partitions
- Enabling and using VM Hotplug virtual hardware
- CPU / Memory hot plug
- Virtual NIC hot plug
- Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
- Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN overview
- Connecting to, scanning, rescanning iSCSI SANS
- Working with Raw Device Maps
- Designing Networks for Optimum iSCSI performance, reliability
- VMFS 5 File Systems
- Unique file system properties of VMFS 5 filesystems
- Creating, managing new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- Storage I/O Control and Profile Driven Storage
- Create storage profile policies Perform compliance checks on VM storage placements
- Identify and fix VM storage compliance issues
- Datastore Clusters and Storage DRS
- How to manage storage capacity, load using Storage DRS
- Create, update Storage DRS datastore clusters
- Identify and eliminate storage performance issues
- DRS Load Balanced Clusters, Power Mgt.
- Cold Migrations, Hot VMotion migrations
- Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
- Create and manage host CPU, memory resources with VMware DRS
- VM cluster policy settings including Admission Control
- Configuring and enabling Power Management on DRS clusters
- Using SSDs to improve VM paging performance
- VMware HA and Fault Tolerance
- VMware High Availability clusters options
- Fault Tolerance overview, features and limitations
- Configuration, monitoring and recovery
- FT ESXi hosts and network compatibility requirements
- Creating and administering FT VMs
- Advanced Virtual Networking
- Distributed virtual switches, distributed Port Groups
- NIC teaming strategies/options for redundancy and performance
- Connecting to vLANs
- Enhanced Network Security
- Uplinking Virtual and Physical Network segments using NICs
- VMware Data Protection / Replication
- Configuring and using VMware Data Protection to backup, recovery VMs
- Hot VM replication with VMware Replication
- vShield Manager, vShield App, Edge, EndPoint
- Installing, configuring vShield Manager Configuring vShield App for enhanced vSwitch security
- Enabling and configuring gateway security with vShield Edge
- Using vShield Edge to implement hypervisor based antivirus protection
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VMware vSphere 5.5 with ESXi and vCenter
Course Number:
N/A
Audience:
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure.
Course Duration:
5 days
Prerequisites:
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Course Objectives:
- Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
- Install ESXi Server according to best practices
- Configure and manage local storage
- Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments
- Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
- Define and use file share (NAS) datastores
- Install, configure and administer VMware vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
- Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
- Create clones – one-time copies of virtual machine
- Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
- Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
- Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN,
- Deploy and use VMware Data Recovery to back up and recover VMs
- Create and manage load balanced clusters
- Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures
- Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
- Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
- Replicate critical VMs to protect against data loss and service loss
- Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
- Troubleshoot common problems
Course Outline:
HoL – Indicates a hands-on lab at the end of the chapter
- Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
- Virtualization explained
- How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
- Common pain points in PC Server management
- How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
- VMware vSphere software products
- How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.5 Installable (HoL)
- Understanding ESXi
- Storage controllers, disks and partitions
- Software installation and best practices
- Joining ESXi to a Domain
- First look at the VMware vSphere Client
- Virtual and Physical Networking (HoL)
- vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
- Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
- Creating VMkernel ports. Creating, sizing, customizing Virtual Switches
- NAS Shared Storage (HoL)
- Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
- Shared Storage options
- NFS Overview
- Configuring ESXi to use NFS Shares
- Troubleshooting NFS connections
- Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines (HoL)
- VM virtual hardware, options and limits
- Sizing and creating a new VM
- Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
- Working with a VM’s BIOS
- VMware remote console applications
- Installing an OS, VMware Tools into a VM
- vCenter Server and the Next Generation Client (HoL)
- vCenter feature overview and components
- Single Sign On and Inventory Service
- Import and configure vCenter Server Appliance (VSA)
- VMware Licensing
- Organizing vCenter’s inventory view
- Importing ESXi hosts into vCenter management
- Installing and Using the vSphere Next Generation vSphere Client (NGC)
- VM Rapid Deployment w. Templates, Clones (HoL)
- Templates – Virtual Machine Golden Master images
- Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
- Patching, and refreshing Templates
- Best practices for cloning and templating
- Adding and resizing virtual disks
- ESXi and vCenter Permission Model (HoL)
- VMware Security model
- Configuring local users and groups
- Managing local and vCenter permissions
- Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
- How permissions are applied
- Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage (HoL)
- Fibre SAN overview
- Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
- Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
- iSCSI overview
- Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
- Connecting to iSCSI storage
- Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
- Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices
- VMFS – The VMware File System (HoL)
- Unique file system properties of VMFS
- Managing shared Volumes
- Creating new VMFS partitions
- Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
- Native and 3rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
- VMFS performance considerations
- ESXi and vCenter Alarms (HoL)
- Alarm categories and definitions
- Creating custom alarms and actions
- Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them
- Resource Management and Resource Pools (HoL)
- How ESXi delivers resources to VMs
- Shares, Reservations and Limits
- CPU resource scheduling
- Memory resource scheduling
- Resource Pools
- Consolidation with vCenter Converter (HoL)
- vCenter Converter overview
- Converting physical machines, virtual machines and OS Images
- Cold migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
- Hot migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
- VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion (HoL)
- Cold Migrations to new ESXi hosts, datastores
- Hot Migrations with VMotion
- VMotion requirements and dependencies
- How VMotion works – detailed explanation
- Troubleshooting VMotion
- Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations
- Load Balancing with DRS Clusters (HoL)
- Delegated resource management with Resource Pools
- Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
- Per-VM cluster policy overrides
- Rapid VM Recovery with HA Clusters (HoL)
- High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time
- VMware High Availability clusters
- VMware Fault Tolerance
- Host Profiles (HoL)
- Using Host Profiles to capture an ESXi host configuration
- Perform configuration compliance scans
- Remediating out of compliance configuration issues
- Rapid ESXi host deployment/configuration with Host Profiles
- VMware Replication
- Establishing Time to Recovery requirements
- Overview of SAN LUN replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Installing and configuring VMware Replication for individual VM replication
- Replicating a VM
- Recovering a replicated VM
- Patching ESXi hosts with Update Manager (HoL)
- Configure and enable VMware Update Manager
- Establishing a patch baseline
- Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts
- Managing Scalability and Performance (HoL)
- VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
- Tuning VM storage I/O performance
- Identifying and resolving resource contention
- Monitoring VM and ESXi host performance
- Performance and capacity planning strategies
- Final Thoughts
- Consolidation guidelines for VMs and Storage
- Determining which workloads to consolidate
- Protecting against virtual machine leakage/theft
- Other considerations