AME Training course – VMware vSphere 5.0 Fast Track 5 Day Course

Purpose of this course
This is an intensive course, which combines VSphere Installation, Configuration and Administration skills with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.

Who is this course for
This course is designed for experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.

Benefits to you as an individual
You will obtain the skills which are critical for both the move from a physical to a virtual infrastructure, and the day to day running of such a system. Learning how to build a VMWare infrastructure to support a wide range of operating systems and applications and how to configure them to work within a range of technology domains. As well you will gain exposure to a range of supporting technologies such as storage infrastructure and gain an understanding of how to piece them together to support the organisation.

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Virtualization

•  Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
•  Explain the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
•  Describe where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
•  Install and use vSphere user interfaces

3 Create Virtual Machines

•  Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
•  Detail VMDirect path
•  Deploy a single virtual machine
•  Deploy virtual machines using templates and cloning
•  Deploy virtual machines from VMware Converter enterprise, VMware converter CD, and guided consolidation

4 VMware vCenter Server

•  Introduce vCenter Server architecture
•  Introduce vCenter Server appliance
•  Configure and manage vCenter Server appliance
•  Configure and manage vCentre for windows
•  Configure and Manage vCentre linked mode
•  Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
•  Describe and detail vCentre Server heartbeat 6.4

5 Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

•  Describe, create, and manage both standard and distributed virtual switches
•  Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties
•  Describe vSwitch security options
•  Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

6 Configure and Manage Virtual Storage

•  Introduce storage protocols and device names
•  Describe and configure storage profiles
•  Allocate different storage profiles to different virtual machines
•  Allocate different storage priorities to different virtual machines
•  Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
•  Create and manage vSphere datastores
•  Deploy and manage the VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance

7 Virtual Machine Management

•  Modify and manage virtual machines
•  Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
•  Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and Storage vMotion migrations
•  Create a vSphere vApp

8 Data Protection

•  Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
•  Introduce, deploy and configure the VMware Data Recovery appliance
•  Discuss VMware backup solutions and products

9 Access and Authentication Control

•  Configure user access with roles and permissions
•  Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
•  Configure ESXi lockdown mode
•  Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
•  Introduce VMware vShield Zones

10 Resource Management and Monitoring

•  Describe virtual CPU, memory and disk concepts.
•  Detail the most common performance problems and their solutions
•  Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
•  Configure and manage resource pools
•  Configure and monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms
•  View and utilize vCentre map views

11 High Availability and Fault Tolerance

•  Create and implement Host Profiles
•  Introduce new vSphere High Availability (HA) architecture
•  Introduce, configure and test a vSphere High Availability cluster
•  Introduce, configure and test VMware Fault Tolerance

12 Scalability

•  Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
•  Configure and manage Storage DRS
•  Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
•  Use vSphere HA and DRS together

13 Patch Management

•  Manage ESXi patching using vCenter Update Manager
•  Install Update Manager and Update Manager plug-in
•  Create patch baselines
•  Scan and remediate hosts

14 Installing VMware Components

•  Introduce ESXi installation
•  Perform an ESXi installation
•  Describe boot from SAN requirements
•  Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
•  Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
•  Install vCenter Server

Courseware and manual , certificate of achievement, refreshments and lunch are all included in this course.