Virtualization with VMware vSphere 4.0 and vCenter

Description:

Virtualization is now a critical component to an overall IT strategy. Customers rely on virtual to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. VMware is the leading virtualization provider and Executrain is now offering training in ESX VMware 4.0 and vCenter 2.5

Outline:

• Module 1 - Virtualization Overview
• Virtualization explained
• Virtualization vs. traditional deployments
• Common pain points of physical deployments
• How Virtualization effectively addresses issues and brings new
• Module 2 - ESX 4.0 Server Installation
• Selecting, validating and preparing your server
• Sizxing Service Console and VMkernel resources
• Storage controllers, disks and partitions
• Software installation and licensing
• Istallation recommendations and best practices
• First look at the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client
• Module 3 - Virtual Networking Concepts
• Virtual machine, IP storage and management concepts
• Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
• Virtual Switch Sizing
• Module 4 - Network Attached Storage
• Benefits of Shred Storage
• Shared Storage options
• NFS Overview
• Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
• Troupleshooting NFS connections
• Module 5 - Virtual Machines
• SVM virtual hardware, options and limits
• Sizing and creating a new VM
• Adding, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
• Working with a VM's BIOS
• VMware remote console applications
• Installing an OS into a VM
• Driver installation and customization
• Best practices for monitoring and scalability
• Accessing VMs and servers remotely via the web
• Understanding what should and should not be virtualized
• Module 6 - vCenter
• vCenter architectural and feature overview
• vCenter components
• License Server and Licensing Options
• vCenter Inventory and views
• Host and Server based licensing models
• Module 7 - vCenter Inventory
• vCenter's four views into Virtual Infrastructure
• Role of the Datacenter
• Using folders to impart political, geographic or technical boundaries
• Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
• Troubleshooting vCenter
• Module 8 - Virtual Machine Deployment
• Master images
• Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
• Patching and updating Templates
• Cloning
• Template and Cloning best practices
• Performance considerations
• Module 9 - Securing VMware ESX
• VMware security model
• Configuring local users and groups
• Managing local permissions
• vCenter security model
• Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
• How permissions are applied
• Module 9 - Securing VMware ESX
• VMware security model
• Configuring local users and groups
• Managing local permissions
• vCenter security model
• Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
• How permissions are applied
• Module 10 - Advanced Virtual Networking
• Up-linking Virtual and Pysical Network segments using NICs
• NIC teaming for redundancy and Performance
• Connecting to vLANs
• Enhanced Network Security
• Virtual routers and firewalls
• Module 11 - Using iSCSI and Fibre Channel Shared Storage
• Fiber SAN overview
• Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
• Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
• Partitioning Fibre SAN Storage
• Multi-pathing in a Fibre SAN environment
• Performance considerations and best practices
• iSCSI overview
• Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
• Making virtual iSCSI adapters
• Connecting to iSCSI storage
• Scanning iSCSI SANS
• Performance considerations and best practices
• Module 12 - The VMware File System
• VMFS overview
• Unique file system properties
• Managing shared Volumes
• Creating new VMFS partitions
• Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning
• Multi-pathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
• VMFS performance considerations
• Module 13 - Management of ESX Resources
• How ESX provides resources to VMs
• Shares, Reservations and Limits
• CPU resource scheduling
• Memory resource scheduling
• Disk I/O bandwidth management
• Network bandwith management
• Resource Pools
• Module 14 - VMotion
• Moving Virtual Machines
• Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
• Hot migrations with VMotion
• VMotion requirements
• How VMotion works
• Troubleshooting VMotion
• Storage VMotion
• Module 15 - Clustering with Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Delegated resources management with Resource Pools
• Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
• DRS Cluster configuration
• Isolation response and policy overrides
• Module 16 - High Availability Clustering
• Application level clusters such as MSCS
• Cluster strategies using MSCS
• Using VMs as cluster peers with MSCS
• VMware High Availability clusters