Course Overview

This 4-day hands-on course explores VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter, and has been updated to reflect version 3.5. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.

This course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on lab.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems

• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware Infrastructure 3 and be able to:

• Install ESX Server
• Configure ESX Server networking and storage
• Install and configure VirtualCenter
• Control user access to the VMware infrastructure. Deploy and manage virtual machines using VirtualCenter
• Allocate and monitor virtual machines' resources
• Ensure high availability of applications

• VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure and Analyze V3.5 (HB934S)

Course outline:

Virtual infrastructure overview

• Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components

• Set-up of ESX Server

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

• Storage management technologies

• Set-up of VirtualCenter

• Use of templates
• Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Use of Guide Consolidation

• Controlling administrator rights

• VMotion migrations
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU memory, and other resources

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter

• Backup strategies
• Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster

• Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment