Minimum Prerequisite:
Good knowledge in UNIX or Windows server administration.
Audience:
Experienced System Administrators preferably
with UNIX
Objective:
• Identify the characteristics of the products
in the VMware product line and when to use each
product
• Install VMware ESX server in different
environments (local storage and booting from a
SAN etc.)
• Troubleshoot ESX Server problems
• Create and configure a virtual switch
• Modify the virtual switch for advanced
switch capabilities including VLAN, NIC team,
traffic shaping, and layer 2 security policies
• Connect a VMware ESX server to Fibre
Channel SAN storage
• Create and modify VMFS datastores
• Connect a VMware ESX Server to NFS storage
and to iSCSI storage
• Deploy a VirtualCenter implementation
• Describe VirtualCenter features
• Deploy a virtual machine
• Understand applications for VMware Converter
Enterprise
• Migrate a Virtual Machine using either
a standard migration or migration with VMotion
• Utilize Guided Consolidation capabilities
• Create and modify user permissions in
VirtualCenter and in ESX server
• Restrict access to virtual machines using
Web Access
• Given an ESX server, describe the technologies
used for resource management
• Given a resource constrained system,
make adjustments to improve performance
• Given an ESX environment, allocate resources
using resource pools
• Given an ESX server environment, create
and configure DRS clusters
• Monitor performance of a virtual machine
including CPU, memory, disk, and network performance
• Given a VMware Infrastructure environment,
develop virtual machine back-up and restore strategies
• Describe the basic operation of VMware
HA and other supported high availability technologies
• Given an environment, determine whether
VMware ESX Server could be installed
• Given a set of requirements, plan a VirtualCenter
implementation
• Given a set of requirements, plan VI
storage deployment
Included Labs:
Labs will be provided by the trainer
Topics Covered:
1. Virtual Infrastructure
2. Deploy ESX Server
3. Networking
4. Storage
5. Install VirtualCenter
6. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
7. VM Access Control
8. Resource Management
9. Monitor Your Environment
10. Data Protection
11. VI Deployment
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