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VMware vSphere 5.5 Boot Camp
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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 update the vCenter Server Appliance
- Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
- Understand and explain the technical, business, licensing risks of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- 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 attached storage and Fibre, iSCSI SANs
- Deploy and use VMware Replication to hot back up and recover critical Virtual Machines
- 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
- Use Host Profiles to set and enforce ESXi configuration rule sets
- Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
- Create, administer, back up and recover vNetwork Distributed Switches
- Understand and use advanced vSwitch settings like NIC Teaming and Security
- 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
- Overview of Desktop Virtualization
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure explained
- Benefits of VMware Horizon View oer traditional VDI
- Risks and restrictions of licensing Microsoft Desktop Operating Systems in a VDI environment
- Risks and costs of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Strategy to sidestep desktop licensing costs and access restrictions
- How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.5 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
- Configuring NFS for performance and redundancy
- NFS Use Cases
- Troubleshooting NFS connections
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