Deploying VMware vSphere
Course:  37410     Duration:  3 Days

You will learn how to:

  • Deploy and configure a highly available virtual infrastructure with VMware vSphere
  • Allocate networking and storage resources
  • Create VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and Network File System (NFS) datastores
  • Leverage vCenter Server for a secure and efficient virtualized IT environment
  • Secure the infrastructure to prevent unauthorized access
  • Pool resources for virtual machines with VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Course benefits:

Virtualizing the infrastructure offers tremendous opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery. However, implementing an optimal configuration requires a thorough knowledge of the technology along with practical experience. This course prepares you to manage a vSphere-based enterprise environment using the vCenter Server 5 and ESXi 5 Server.

Who should attend:

System administrators, data center infrastructure architects, systems engineers and operators, as well as those interested in implementing ESXi 5 and/or vCenter Server 5. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge are assumed. A basic familiarity with SAN storage is helpful.

Hands-on training:

Hands-on training exercises provide experience in designing and deploying a VMware vSphere and include:

  • Designing and implementing virtual switch plans and policies
  • Installing and configuring ESXi 5
  • Configuring ESXi hosts directly through vCenter
  • Creating and cloning virtual machines from the vSphere and Web management interfaces
  • Moving a live VM using VMotion
  • Converting virtual machines to templates
  • Creating and managing resource pools


Course content:

Enterprise Virtualization Concepts

  • Virtualizing physical hardware
  • Mapping a physical data center topology to a virtual one
  • Sharing storage resources
Installing and Configuring ESXi Server

First steps

  • Meeting minimum system requirements
  • Walking through the installation steps
  • Working with the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)
Leveraging vCenter Server
  • vCenter vs. Direct Connection for management
  • Recognizing and applying additional vCenter management objects
Configuring Network Resources

Defining vSphere network terminology

  • Utilizing physical network resources
  • Establishing ports and port groups
Designing virtual switches
  • Engineering a virtual switch layout
  • Changing switch assignments and properties
  • Firewalling with virtual switches
  • Combining physical network cards for automatic failover
  • Comparing standard vswitches vs. distributed vswitches
Establishing policies
  • Implementing network policies for security
  • Shaping network traffic
  • Teaming network cards for performance
Accessing Shared Storage

Creating and managing a datastore

  • Configuring VMkernel access to LUNs
  • Setting up a Network File System (NFS) datastore
  • Ensuring continued access with multipathing
  • Comparing ESXi Server datastore options
Enabling Fibre Channel storage
  • Controlling access to the shared storage
  • Making Fibre Channel LUNs available
Completing iSCSI setups
  • Identifying the components of iSCSI
  • Authenticating the ESXi Server with CHAP
Initiating VMFS data stores
  • Creating a VMFS
  • Extending a VMFS
Managing via VirtualCenter

Installing the vCenter components

  • vCenter vs. vSphere Client
  • Host-based licensing vs. License Server
  • vSphere license keys
  • Maintaining and adding an ESXi Server to the inventory
vCenter and multiple data centers
  • Grouping data centers in folders
  • Combining hosts into a cluster
Working with Virtual Machines

Creating virtual machines

  • Creating a base virtual machine image
  • Enabling multiple CPUs with Virtual SMP
Customizing advanced VM features
  • Improving performance with VMware Tools
  • Provisioning new VMs with templates and clones
Managing VMs
  • Moving VMs between ESXi Servers
  • Preserving VM states with snapshots
Securing Access to the Infrastructure

Setting up security

  • Authoring vCenter permissions
  • Establishing permission inheritance
  • Assessing permissions at different inventory levels
Initiating Web access controls
  • Providing end user access to VMs
  • Logging into vCenter
  • Managing VMs from the Web
Extending Resource Management

Handling resource pools

  • Allocating CPU and memory resources
  • Defining Shares, Reservations and Limits
  • Creating resource pools
vSphere enterprise features
  • Organizing data center clusters
  • Adding hosts to a High Availability (HA) cluster
  • Moving a powered-on VM to another machine with VMotion
  • Balancing resources with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • VMware Consolidated Backup

Additional information:

VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.

Course schedule:

For the complete course schedule, please refer to the GM IT Global Learning College Web page.

Enrollment:

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