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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