VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0] in collaboration with ALSO

Référence	VMFSTRK-50
Catégorie	Storage
Date	De  lundi 17 décembre 2012 à vendredi 21 décembre 2012
Horaire	9h00-12h00 et 14h00-17h30
Formateur	Cédric Mégroz
Langue	Cours : Français   Support : Français
Lieu	LANexpert Lausanne Av. de Provence 4 - 1007 Lausanne Tél: +41 21 623 92 40 Fax: +41 21 623 92 45
Prix (CHF)	5'500.00
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Description

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere 5. 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 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server 5.0. 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.

Audience

Experienced system administrators and system integrators willing to work hard to achieve superior vSphere skills with minimal time away from the office.

Prérequis

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.

Objectifs

1. Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage.
2. Create, configure, migrate, manage, convert, and monitor virtual machines and virtual appliances.
3. Manage user access to the virtual infrastructure.
4. Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage.
5. Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure.
6. Implement business continuity solutions.
7. Manage changes to the vSphere environment.
8. Use a command-line interface to manage vSphere.
9. Install and configure ESXi and vCenter Server.
10. Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts.

Programme

Course Introduction

- Introductions and course logistics

- Course objectives

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

Creating Virtual Machines

- Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files

- Deploy a single virtual machine

VMware vCenter Server

- Introduce vCenter Server architecture

- Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

- Describe, create, and manage a standard virtual switch

- Describe and modify standard virtual switch properties

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

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 vSphere Storage vMotion migrations

- Create a vSphere vApp

- Use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to hot-clone a system

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

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

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

- Explain the vSphere High Availability (HA) architecture

- Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster

- Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

Host Scalability

- Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance

- Configure and manage a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster

- Configure and manage vSphere Distributed Power Management

Network Scalability

- Create, configure, and manage vNetwork distributed switches, network connections, and port groups

- Discuss distributed virtual switch features, such as PVLANs, discovery protocols, Network I/O Control, NetFlow, and port mirroring

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 storage I/O control

- Create a datastore cluster for Storage DRS

- Configure Storage DRS

Data Protection

- Discuss a strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server

- Introduce the VMware Data Recovery appliance

- Discuss solutions for efficiently backing up virtual machines

Patch Management

- Use VMware vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi patching

- Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in

- Create patch baselines

- Scan and remediate hosts

VMware vSphere Management Assistant

- Describe VMware vSphere Management Assistant (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

Installing VMware Components

- Use 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 Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host