Duration:

4 days

Training Overview:

Knowing what to do, when to do it, and how to do it is an essential aspect of an administrator’s job. For today’s infrastructure professionals working in a virtual environment, having this ability is critical for success. Participants will be immersed into live scenarios exposing students to real world issues they will encounter in the field, and learn how to hone their critical thinking skills under pressure to identify and quickly resolve issues that commonly plague infrastructure professionals. This 4 day advanced lab intensive course focuses the student on gaining the deep understanding necessary to successfully manage and troubleshoot problems inside VMware vSphere® 5.0 virtual infrastructure environment.

Troubleshooting Information Every Infrastructure Professional Needs!

Course Objectives:

• Diagnose and solve problems on ESXi by using:
  • VMware vSphere® Client and service console commands
  • VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA) appliance
  • ESXi technical support mode
  • vCLI esxcfg- and vicfg- and the NEW esxcli command
• Configure centralized logging with vilogger and syslog
• Diagnose and solve problems with Networking, Storage, and Virtual Machines
• Diagnose and solve problems with VMware® products:
  • vCenter™, vSphere® Client, VMotion™, Storage VMotion, HA, and DRS

Additionally, Students will also gain exposure to third party tools that will simplify processes, allowing for easier monitoring of network infrastructures, and enable them to quickly mitigate problems that can arise. Each student will be provided their own server to work on throughout the course, available 24/7.

Prerequisites: 

System administrators, engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere® deployments.

This is an advanced course. Required prerequisites include the completion of VMware vSphere™ Advanced Administration or VMware vSphere™ Ultimate Bootcamp®

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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