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VMware vSphere 5.0 Ultimate Bootcamp Training
Duration:
5 days
Training Overview:
The VMware® vSphere Ultimate Bootcamp® is taught by top virtualization experts and offers hands-on labs designed to expose the student to advanced virtualization concepts and the VMware® vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 product suite. The instructors are also consultants who have worked on countless projects and bring unmatched real-world experience to the training.
The comprehensive training session prepares the participant to become a certified professional virtualization expert with the Certified Virtualization Expert® (CVE®) certification to attest to their knowledge of the material and technology. Students are given the opportunity to complete all labs on their own servers (ie. no sharing) and also have the option to access the servers from home 24 hours a day during the week of class!
The Value of All of VMware’s Most Popular Classes in One Training Session!
Upon completion of this training, participants will learn:
- About all of the new and exciting features of VMware® vSphere
- Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
- How to install, configure, and support ESX Server 4 and vCenter 4
- How to configure Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
- How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing.
- P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
- Server Consolidation procedures and reasoning
- Tools to support a virtual infrastructure – VMware®, PlateSpin®, Vizioncore™, Veeam, and more
- VMotion™, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering – DRS/HA, etc.
- Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
- How to perform backups in the ESX environment – Service Console and Virtual Machines – VCB and Data Recovery
- How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX & ESXi Servers – ESX commands
- Configure and optimize storage – FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning
Training Outline:
*HOL=Hands-On Lab
Chapter 1: Course Introduction and Methodology
Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview
Chapter 3:Planning and Installing ESX 4 (HOL)
- Planning ESX 4 Server Deployment
- Deployment Guidelines
- ESX 4 Installation (HOL)
- ESXi 4 Server Install (HOL)
- Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
- Troubleshooting ESX 4 Server
Chapter 4: Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment
- Overview of 3rd Party Tools (HOL)
- ESX/ESXI Management (HOL)
- Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)
Chapter 5: Configuring Networking
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
Chapter 6: Configuring Storage
- Storage Concepts
- iSCSI Storage (GUI & Cmd Line) (HOL)
- Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Cmd Line)
- VMFS Datastores (GUI & Cmd Line) (HOL)
- NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Cmd Line) (HOL)
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)
Chapter 7: vCenter Server 4 and Licensing
- Licensing
- vCenter Server 4 Installation (HOL)
- vCenter Server 4 Inventory (HOL)
- Managing vCenter Server 4 (HOL)
- Planning vCenter Server 4 Deployment
- Troubleshooting vCenter Server 4 Deployment
Chapter 8: VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots
- Create a VM (HOL)
- Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones (HOL)
- Virtual Appliances (HOL)
- VMware vCenter Converter 4 (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
- Manage VMs (HOL)
- Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown
- Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
- Web Access (HOL)
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
Chapter 9: Security and Permissions
- Controlling User Access and passwords (HOL)
- ESX AD Integration (HOL)
- Managing Firewalls (HOL)
- SSH Access (HOL)
- Running Elevated Commands (su, sudo, setuid/setgid) (HOL)
- VMSafe and vShield Zones (HOL)
Chapter 10: Server and VM Monitoring
- Optimizing Resources
- Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
- Configuring Alarms (HOL)
- ESX and vCenter Logs (HOL)
Chapter 11: Advanced ESX and vCenter Management
- Storage Views & Topology Maps
- Storage VMotion (HOL)
- Configuring VMotion (HOL)
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
- Resource Pools and Monitoring (HOL)
- vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches (HOL)
- Host Profiles (HOL)
- Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers
Chapter 12: Patching and Upgrading ESX/ESXi
- Patching ESXServer 4 (HOL)
- Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
- Upgrades and Migrations (HOL)
- Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x (HOL)
Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- High Availability (HA) (HOL)
- VM Fault Tolerance
- Microsoft Clustering
- Backup Strategies
- Using VCB Command Line Utilities
- VMware Data Recovery (HOL)
- Third Party Backups (HOL)
This training session is intended for:
System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESXi 5 Server and/or vCenter™ 5.
What’s Included:
- A printed manual that includes all power point slides and labs
- Participants will have access to their own rack of equipment to complete labs.
- The ability to remote into racks from home during the week of class
- One-on-one help during labs
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