http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=one&id_subject=40085
Summary:
- Formats: Classroom, Live Online, vFlex-ILT, Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5.1. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for configuring a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.1 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more advanced vSphere courses. For advanced course options, go to http://www.vmware.com/education.
Objectives:
• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Create, configure, migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances
• Manage user access to the VMware virtual infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Implement VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Use vSphere distributed switches to scale networking
• Use profile-driven storage and VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ to scale storage
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
• Use VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
• Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware® vCenter Server™ Appliance™
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Image Builder CLI to create an ESXi image
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts
Intended Audience:
Experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office
Prerequisites:
• Willingness to participate in a demanding, high-intensity training experience
• Comfort with system administration using command-line interfaces
• Have a basic understanding of virtualization concepts
Outline:
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization 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
• Describe the ESXi architecture and configure various ESXi settings
3 Creating Virtual Machines
• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploy a single virtual machine
4 VMware vCenter Server
• Introduce vCenter Server architecture
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses
5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms
6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage VMware vSphere® VMFS datastores
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance
7 Virtual Machine Management
• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform VMware vSphere® vMotion® and VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® migrations
• Create a VMware vSphere® vApp™
• Use VMware® vCenter™ Converter™ Standalone to hot-clone a system
8 Access and Authentication Control
• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Discuss ESXi host access and authentication
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
• Introduce VMware® vShield™ products
9 Resource Management and Monitoring
• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor resource usage
10 High Availability and Fault Tolerance
• Explain the vSphere HA architecture
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Set vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Enable FT on a virtual machine
11 Host Scalability
• Use host profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together
• Configure and manage VMware vSphere® Distributed Power Management™
12 Network Scalability
• Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches, network connections, and port groups
• Discuss distributed switch features, such as private VLANs, discovery protocols, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring
13 Storage Scalability
• Describe VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Array Integration and Storage Awareness
• Explain profile-driven storage
• Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control
• Create a datastore cluster
• Configure Storage DRS
14 Data Protection
• Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
• Introduce VMware vSphere® Data Protection™
• Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines
15 Patch Management
• Use Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
• Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Scan and remediate hosts
16 VMware vSphere Management Assistant
• Describe vMA
• Configure vMA
• Discuss the VMware vSphere® Command-Line Interface command set
• Perform command-line operations for host management, network management, storage management, and performance monitoring
17 Installing VMware Components
• Describe vCenter Linked Mode to manage multiple vCenter Server inventories
• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)
• Introduce vCenter Server Appliance
• Install and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to deploy a stateless ESXi host