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VMware vSphere: Bootcamp [V41]

Class Overview & Benefits

Overview

Insyte's authorized VMware vSphere: Boot Camp v4.1 is a training and certification power class is offered in most cities nationwide including  Washington, DC, Boston, Miami and San Diego. In this intensive, extended-hours training course, you will install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot a VMware vSphere™ 4 infrastructure. The course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with advanced tasks and skills for troubleshooting a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. You will diagnose and resolve configuration problems created on VMware® ESX™/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter™ Server systems. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 4 exam.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should have an understanding of vSphere capabilities and be able to:

• Install and configure ESX/ESXi
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESX/ESXi networking and storage
• Deploy, manage, convert, and migrate virtual machines
• Manage user access to the vSphere infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESX/ESXi patches
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
• Use the VMware vSphere Client and command-line utilities to configure, manage, and troubleshoot a vSphere infrastructure
• Configure and use a network packet capture utility to display and troubleshoot virtual switch network traffi

Who Should Attend

Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and system engineers willing to participate in a demanding, high-intensity, and fast-paced training experience that requires minimal time away from the office

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems
Experience entering commands at a command-line prompt

Course Length

5 Days

Course Outline           

• 1  Course Introduction
  • vSphere 4.1 install, configure, and manage
  • vSphere troubleshooting
• 2  Introduction to VMware Virtualization
  • Role of vSphere in the datacenter and the cloud
• 3  Configuring VMware ESX/ESXi
  • ESX/ESXi architecture
  • Configuration tasks
• 4  Installing and Using VMware vCenter Server
  • vCenter Server architecture and components
  • vCenter Server installation
  • vCenter Server inventory building
• 5  Networking
• vNetwork Standard Switch components, configuration, and property modification
• 6  Storage
  • VMware Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage technologies
  • VMware vStorage VMFS datastores
• 7  Virtual Machines
  • Virtual machine hardware and creation
  • Templates and clones
  • Using VMware vCenter Converter
  • Dynamically increasing the size of a virtual machine virtual disk and raw device mapping
  • Virtual machine snapshots and VMware Storage vMotion
• 8  Access Control
  • Permissions and custom role creation
• 9  Resource Monitoring
  • CPU, memory, and storage I/O allocation settings
  • Resource pools
  • Monitoring virtual machine resource usage
  • Alarm management
• 10  Data Protection
  • VMware Data Recovery
• 11  Scalability
  • VMware vCenter Linked Mode
  • Host Profiles
  • vNetwork Distributed Switches
  • VMware vMotion™
  • VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) clusters
  • VMware Distributed Power Management
• 12  Availability
  • VMware High Availability clusters
  • VMware Fault Tolerance
• 13  Patch Management
  • Update Manager
• 14  VMware ESX/ESXi Installation
  • Interactive and scripted installation methods
• 15  VMware ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting
  • Configuring the VMware vSphere Management Assistant virtual appliance
  • ESXi troubleshooting tools and methodology
• 16  ESX/ESXi and vCenter Log Files
  • Primary log files
  • Syslog service
  • Centralized loghost configuration
• 17  Network Troubleshooting
  • vNetwork Distributed Switch private VLAN configuration and troubleshooting
  • Command-line examination of ESX/ESXi network information
  • Network traffic capture and analysis
• 18  Management Troubleshooting
  • Management problems caused by network, firewall, service, agent, and permission errors
• 19  Storage Troubleshooting
  • Command-line examination of ESX/ESXi storage information
  • Software iSCSI multipathing configuration
  • Path-masking configuration
• 20  VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion Troubleshooting
• 21  Infrastructure Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting DRS and VMware HA clusters
  • Troubleshooting virtual machines