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VMware vSphere 5.5 with ESXi and vCenter
Duration
5 Days
Course
VMWR-160
Available Formats
Classroom Training, Online Training
Course Description
Overview
This VMware vSphere 5.1 with ESXi and vCenter course is designed to provide students with an intense introduction to virtualization using VMware’s vSphere™ 5.1 including VMware ESX™ 5.1 and vCenter™. This class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. More than 40% of class time is devoted to labs, so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced. Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced.The class continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, back-up and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered. This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers clear, tangible benefits (e.g.: reduced costs, greater consistency, responsiveness, reduced administration, server consolidation, etc.). Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.
Objectives
Upon completion of the VMware vSphere 5.1 with ESXi and vCenter course, students will be able to:
- Develop and reinforce concepts, skills and best practices
- Focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers
- Operate shared storage, networking and centralized management
- Practice resource balancing, high availability, back-up and recovery, troubleshooting and more
- Demonstrate disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation
- Identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers clear, tangible benefits
Audience
- System Architects
- Security Specialists
- Analysts
- Back-up and Storage Administrators
Prerequisites
- 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
- Basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.
Topics
- VMware vSphere
- Server Resource Utilization
- Server Consolidation
- Datacenter Issues
- OS, Application Imaging
- Hardware Maintenance
- Windows Licensing for VMs
- Windows Server 2012
- Disaster Recovery
- Test, Development & QA
- Virtualization Over Time
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Editions
- vSphere Acceleration Kits
- VMware ESXi
- Multiple ESXi w. Shared Storage
- vSphere Private Cloud
- Storage Cloud
- What's New in vSphere 5.1/5.5
- Stand Alone ESXi
- Scaling Up Networks, Storage
- Installing ESXi
- ESXi 5.5
- Performing an In-Place Upgrade
- ESXi 5.5 DCUI
- ESXi Configuration & Settings
- Default Management IP Settings
- Configure Management Network
- IPV4 & DNS Configuration
- Apply Network Changes
- ESXi Ready for Service
- Security Warning
- ESXi Host Roles
- Licensed Features in ESXi 5.5
- Virtual & Physical Networking
- Teamed Networking
- Multi-homed Networking
- vSwitch Properties
- ESXi Physical NICs
- vSwitch Rules
- Network Attached Storage
- NFS - Shared Storage PoC
- NAS Options
- NAS/NFS Uses
- Defining NFS Shares
- NFS Share in Storage Roster
- NAS/NFS Trade-offs
- Troubleshooting NFS
- Virtual Hardware
- Take Ownership of a VM
- New Virtual Machine Wizard
- VM Wizard - Virtual CPUs
- Snapshots Manager
- Complete the Virtual Machine
- Remote Console
- VMware Tools
- USB Virtual Device Support
- Windows Performance Tips
- Supported Guest OS
- Central Management w. vCenter
- vCenter is a Management Proxy
- vCenter for Windows
- vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
- vCenter Server
- Inventory Service
- vCenter Simple Install
- vCenter for Databases
- Install vCenter for Windows
- vCenter Windows Services
- Configuring vCSA IP Properties
- VMs run on Clusters
- Adding Licenses to vCenter
- Web Client
- Migrating a VM
- vSphere Clients
- vCenter Limits
- Template Theory
- Template Benefits
- Templates
- Disk Formats
- Creating a New Template
- VM Cloning
- Clone a Template
- Template Maintenance
- Windows VM Customization
- Non-Windows OS Customization
- Virtual Machines / Pros and Cons
- Import/ Export Virtual Appliances
- CPU to vCPU Virtualization
- Windows 7 Basic 3D Video
- Adding Virtual Hardware
- All VMs Support Simple Changes
- Adding Virtual Hardware
- Hot Grow Disks
- Permission- Privileges and Roles
- Determining Permissions
- Role Assignments
- Work with Roles
- vCenter Users, Groups
- vCenter Base Permissions
- ESXi Users, Groups
- View ESXi Permissions
- Fibre Storage Area Networks
- Fibre Switched Fabric Topology
- Hardware Paths
- iSCSI, Capabilities, Motivation
- LUN Discovery options
- iSCSI Hardware & Software Initiators
- Challenge Authentication Protocol
- CHAP Authentication Process
- Scan iSCSI SAN
- New iSCSI LUNS
- iSCSI Trade-offs
- Storage Properties, Views, Reports, Maps
- ESXi 5.5 Boot from SAN
- VMFS 5 Features
- Building a VMFS
- Properties and Formatting
- New VMFS
- VMFS Capacity Management
- LUN Span - Before/ After
- Grow VMFS into Free Space
- Multipathing
- iSCSI SAN Multipathing
- Pluggable Storage Architecture
- Performance Alarms
- vCenter Alarms
- Alarm Settings
- ESXi Host Alarms
- Virtual Machine Alarms
- Alarm Reporting
- Default Alarm Definitions
- Set Local Mail Server Properties
- Change Custom Alarms
- Alarm Best Practices
- Resource Administration
- VM CPU Resource Tunables
- Dynamic Memory Balancing
- Resource Shares
- Resource Pools
- Expandable Resrvations
- Auto-Update Resource Pools
- Resource Allocations
- Converter Import Source Options
- What's New in Converter 5.5
- Clone & Update Disks
- Install and Enable Converter
- Launch Converter Enterprise
- Specify New VM Location
- Clone Physical Disk(s)
- Copying Disk Volumes
- Create the New Virtual Machine
- VM Reconfiguration
- Converter Housekeeping
- New VM Housekeeping
- Converter Caveats
- Conversion in Progress
- Virtual Machine Migration
- Cold Migration
- VMotion Migration, Benefits, Requirements
- Progress is Monitored
- Switch Over
- VM Scheduled to Run
- Housekeeping
- Validation
- Validation Warnings
- Host and CPU Compatibility
- Storage VMotion
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DRS Clusters / Functions
- DRS Automation Level
- Migration Threshold
- Power Management
- EVC and AMD CPUs
- EVC Benefits
- Affinity, Anti-Affinity Rules
- DRS Groups Manager
- Resource Management
- Adopting DRS
- High Availability Clusters
- VMware HA Host Failures
- Admission Control
- HA Cluster Heartbeat
- Datastore Heartbeat
- HA Restart Priority
- VM Monitoring
- Maintenance Mode
- Resolving HA Problems
- HA and DRS
- Isolation Response
- VMware Fault Tolerance
- Managing ESXi Host Configuration
- Host Profiles
- Attaching Host Profiles
- Host Profiles Benefits
- Host Profile Tasks
- Bringing a Host into Compliance
- Guest OS Compliance?
- VM Synchronization
- VM Replication Policies
- Replicated VM
- vSphere Client Integration Plug-in
- Select Replication Server
- Advanced Disk Configuration
- vSphere Replication > Manage
- Recovering a VM
- VMware Update Manager
- Patch Management
- VUM Components
- Install VUM
- VUM Storage
- Configure CUM
- Patch Download Setting and Schedule
- Dour Types of Baselines
- Selected Patches
- VUM and DRS Clusters
- Performance Analysis & Tuning
- ESXi CPU Usage Strategy
- Active VM CPU Scheduling
- Physical to Virtual CPU
- Sequential vs Concurrent Tasks
- Physical & VM Memory
- Transparent Page Sharing
- Memory Ballooning
- Ballooning vs. VMkernel Swap
- VMkernel Native Drivers
- ESXi and SSDs
- Performance Charts
- Performance Problems
- CPU Ready Time
- Monitoring Memory Stress
- Page Faults
- Memory Consumption
- What to Virtualize
- CPU Storage and Network Considerations
- Server Capacity Management
- Delivering High Availability
- Virtualization Security Issues
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