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VMWARE4 - VMware vSphere 4.1 Configuration and Management

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This class is a 4-day intense vSphere Configuration and Management class that will provide administrators who are new to virtualization, and those who have experience with virtualization, with a solid understanding of VMware virtualization. The student will have plenty of opportunity to install and configure the various features of vSphere. The class is approximately 50% lecture and 50% demo and lab. The class will show some of the new features of vSphere 4.1 while still teaching the critical pieces of VMware virtualization that are not new.

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Prerequisites

Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common
operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™ or other
platforms. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems,
storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all
attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning,
IP addressing, O/S installation, etc.
No Linux command line skills are assumed or required.

Detailed Class Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction

Introduction

Module 2: What is virtualization?

VMware products

i. ESX/ESXi
ii. VMware Server
iii. VMware Player
iv. VMware Workstation
1. Demo VMware Workstation – Create VM for ESX

Other virtualization products

Virtualization on top of general purpose O/S

Virtualization as the operating system

Module 3: Installation and Configuration of ESX/ESXi

ESX and ESXi installable

VMware’s Enterprise Product Line

i. ESX
ii. ESXi
iii. vCenter
iv. vSphere Client

ESX

i. Hardware supported
ii. Min/Max
iii. Install ESX
iv. Console/Console Operating System
v. Management
1. Local user accounts and Shell Access
2. vSphere Client
a. Supported operating systems
b. Installation
3. System logs

ESXi

i. Hardware supported
ii. Min/Max
iii. Install ESXi
iv. Console/Console Operating System
v. Management
1. vSphere Client
2. RCLI
3. Direct Console
4. Demo vSphere Client and Direct Console

Virtualization Layer

i. VMkernel

Physical Hardware

What is a Virtual Machine?

i. 4 Core resources
ii. Other virtual hardware

ESX Virtual machines

i. Files

Best Practices

Module 4: vCenter
a. Management Suite
b. Added functionality
i. Templates
ii. DRS
iii. DPM
iv. HA
v. Management of Multiple ESX and ESXi
vi. Distributed vSwitch
c. Installation
i. SQL – local or remote?
ii. SQL Express?
iii. As a VM?
d. Join ESX and ESXi hosts

Module 5: Networking

Standard vSwitch

i. Port Groups
1. VMkernel
2. Service Console
3. Virtual Machine Network
4. VLAN
5. Security
6. Bandwidth shaping
ii. Physical NIC
1. Uplink
2. NIC teaming
iii. Virtual NIC

Distributed vSwitch

i. Advantages
ii. Owned and Managed by vCenter

Best Practices

Module 6: Shared and Local Storage

Local

i. RAID

Shared

i. NFS
ii. iSCSI
1. Hardware vs Software Initiator
iii. Fibre Channel
iv. Multipathing

Module 7: Rapid VM Creation and Deployment

Why not sysprep alone?

Templates

Deploy VM from Template

Snapshots and snapshot management

Best Practices

Module 8: Physical to Virtual (P2V)

Guided Consolidation

P2V

V2V

Best Practices

Module 9: Access Control

AD Domain Admin and local admin have full control by default

RBAC

Default Roles

Custom Roles

Create Microsoft user and Group accounts and attach to VMware Role

Best Practices

Module 10: Resource Allocation and Performance

Core Resources

Limits

Reservations

Resource Management

Resource Pools

Best Practices

Module 11: Performance and Resource Monitoring

VMkernel memory and CPU scheduling

HT vs multiple cores

Resource tabs using VIC

CLI via SSH (using putty)

Module 12: Data Protection

Manual Backup of VMs

VMware Data Recovery

Module 13: Scalability

vMotion

DRS

vCenter Linked Mode

Host Profiles

Module 14: High Availability and Power Management

VMware Fault Tolerance

DPM

Module 15: Update Management

Traditional – WSUS

Virtual Infrastructure – VUM

Module 16. Upgrade and Patch Management

Upgrade 4.0 to 4.1

Module 17: Overview

New Features of vSphere 4.1