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vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v5.0]



Course Description

In this hands-on, VMware-authorized course based on ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0, you will learn to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server. You will spend approximately 40% of instruction time completing 20 hands-on labs.

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional 5 exam (voucher not included). It also prepares you to enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere 5.0 courses.

What You'll Learn

  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install and configure vCenter Server components
  • Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
  • Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
  • Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
  • Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
  • Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
  • Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
  • Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

Who Should Attend

  • System administrators
  • Systems engineers
  • Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Prerequisites:

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Outline:

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lessons

Lesson 1: VMware Virtualization

  • Virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
  • Server, network, and storage virtualization concepts
  • Where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
  • Install and use vSphere user interfaces

Lesson 2: Virtual Machines

  • Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
  • Deploy a single virtual machine and virtual machine appliance

Lesson 3: VMware vCenter Server

  • vCenter Server and database requirements
  • vCenter Server architecture
  • Deploy a vCenter Server appliance
  • View and create vCenter Server inventory objects

Lesson 4: Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

  • Create and manage a standard virtual switch
  • Modify standard virtual switch properties

Lesson 5: Configure and Manage vSphere Storage

  • Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Create and manage vSphere datastores
  • Configure, deploy, and manage the VMware Virtual Storage Appliance

Lesson 6: Virtual Machine Management

  • Deploy virtual machines using templates, cloning, and VMware vCenter Converter
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Perform VMware vMotion and Storage vMotion migrations

Lesson 7: Access and Authentication Control

  • Control user access through roles and permissions
  • Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
  • Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
  • vShield Zones

Lesson 8: Resource Management and Monitoring

  • Control virtual machine access to CPU, memory, and I/O resources
  • VMkernel methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
  • Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

Lesson 9: Data Protection

  • Strategies for backing up ESXi hosts
  • Backup/recovery APIs
  • Strategies for backing up virtual machines

Lesson 10: High Availability and Fault Tolerance

  • Configure and manage a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
  • Configure fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance

Lesson 11: Scalability

  • Configure and manage a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
  • Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
  • Using VMware HA and DRS together

Lesson 12: Patch Management

  • Manage ESXi patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager

Lesson 13: Installing VMware vSphere 5 Components

  • ESXi Installable installation
  • vCenter Server installation
  • Additional vCenter Server module installation

Labs

Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces

  • Access your student desktop system
  • Install the vSphere Client
  • Install the Web Client (Server)

Lab 2: Configuring VMware ESXi

  • Connect to an ESXi host with the VMware vSphere Client
  • View host hardware configuration
  • Configure DNS and routing information for an ESXi host
  • Configure the ESXi host as an NTP client

Lab 3: Working with Virtual Machines

  • Create a virtual machine
  • Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine
  • Identify a virtual machine's disk format and usage statistics
  • Install VMware Tools into a virtual machine installed with a Windows operating system
  • Enable time synchronization between a virtual machine and an ESXi host
  • Copy programs from CD to your virtual machine

Lab 4: Configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance

  • Configure the vCenter Server appliance with a web browser
  • Configure vCenter Server appliance to use directory services
  • Register VMware vSphere Web Client with vCenter Server appliance
  • Connect to the vCenter Server appliance with the vSphere Client

Lab 5: Using VMware vCenter Server

  • Create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object
  • Create vCenter Server inventory folder objects
  • Add your ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory
  • Manage vSphere license keys

Lab 6: Standard Virtual Switches

  • View the current standard virtual switch configuration
  • Create a standard virtual switch with a virtual machine port group
  • Attach your virtual machine to the ProdVMs port group

Lab 7: Accessing IP Storage

  • Add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch
  • Configure the iSCSI software adapter
  • Configure access to NFS datastores
  • View iSCSI and NFS storage information

Lab 8: Managing VMware vSphere VMFSL

  • Review your shared storage configuration
  • Change the name of a VMFS datastore
  • Create a VMFS datastores
  • Expand a VMFS datastore to consume unused space on a LUN
  • Remove a VMFS datastore
  • Extend a VMFS datastore

Lab 9: Using Templates and Clones

  • Create a template
  • Copy Sysprep files to the vCenter Server appliance
  • Create customization specifications
  • Deploy a virtual machine from a template
  • Clone a virtual machine that is powered on

Lab 10: Modifying a Virtual Machine

  • Increase the size of a VMDK file
  • Adjust memory allocation on a virtual machine
  • Rename a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Add a raw LUN to a virtual machine and verify that the guest operating system can see it
  • Expand a thin-provisioned virtual disk

Lab 11: Migrating Virtual Machines

  • Create a virtual switch and VMkernel port group for vMotion migration
  • Verify that your ESXi host meets vMotion requirements
  • Verify that your virtual machines meet vMotion requirements
  • Perform a vMotion migration of a virtual machine
  • Migrate virtual machine files with Storage vMotion

Lab 12: Managing Virtual Machines

  • Unregister a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Register a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Unregister and delete virtual machines from disk
  • Take snapshots of a virtual machine
  • Revert to a snapshot
  • Delete an individual snapshot
  • Using the Delete All function in Snapshot Manager

Lab 13: Access Control

  • Configure an ESXi host to use directory services
  • Use Active Directory accounts to verify proper access to your ESXi host
  • Create a custom role in vCenter Server appliance
  • Assign permissions on vCenter Server inventory objects
  • Verify permission usability

Lab 14: Resource Pools

  • Create CPU contention
  • Create a resource pool named Fin-Test
  • Create a resource pool named Fin-Prod
  • Verify resource pool functionality

Lab 15: Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance

  • Use vCenter Server to monitor CPU utilization
  • Undo changes made to your virtual machines

Lab 16: Using Alarms

  • Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for a condition
  • Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for an event
  • Trigger virtual machine alarms and acknowledge them
  • Disable virtual machine alarms

Lab 17: Using vSphere High Availability

  • Create a cluster enabled for vSphere HA
  • Add your ESXi host to a cluster
  • Test vSphere HA functionality
  • Prepare for the next lab

Lab 18: vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

  • Create a DRS cluster
  • Verify proper DRS cluster functionality
  • Create, test, and disable affinity rules
  • Create, test, and disable anti-affinity rules
  • Create, test, and disable virtual machine to host affinity rules

Lab 19: VMware vCenter Update Manager

  • Install Update Manager
  • Install the Update Manager plug-in in the vSphere Client
  • Modify cluster settings
  • Configure Update Manager
  • Create a patch baseline
  • Attach a baseline and scan for updates
  • Stage patches onto ESXi hosts
  • Remediate ESXi hosts

Lab 20: Installing VMware vCenter Server

  • Access your vCenter Server system
  • Configure a SQL Server ODBC connection to a remote database
  • Install vCenter Server