VMWARE ESX SERVER 3.5 AND VIRTUALCENTER 2.5 Advanced Course
INTRODUCTION
The Infrastructure 3 suite of products consisting of: ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5 and VMware Consolidated Backup, is both exceptionally powerful and comprehensive. Our advanced course is intended for students with significant production experience in the Infrastructure 3 product suite. It is our intention to take your existing knowledge base and expand upon that.
CLASSROOM SET-UP
Each student will have a Windows Server 2003 workstation. Our classroom lab will share a cluster of ESX Servers, a variety of different Storage solutions (SAN, NAS, ISCSI, local, etc..) as needed, a VirtualCenter Server, VCB proxy server, Lab Manager server, Backup Server, VDM Connection Server, access to many already pre-configured VM’s (Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu …etc). Students will also be given a CD containing many valuable tools for supporting, troubleshooting and administrating a virtual infrastructure.
PREREQUISITES
- ESX Server familiarity
- VirtualCenter usage
- VirtualCenter Administration
- Excellent familiarity with Windows
- Some familiarity with Linux
COURSE LENGTH:
4 Days
COURSE DATES:
September 29 - October 2, 2008
COURSE PRICE:
$3,195
Please note: New Horizons training coupons and club memberships are not accepted for this unique and highly specialized training event.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Introduction and Course Design
- Pre-requisites
- Classroom Conventions
- Classroom Setup
- Disaster Recovery
- Virtual Infrastructure Architecture
- Components
- Redundancy and rebuilding
- SAN and ISCSI Configuration
- SAN Design and deployment
- SAN Component overview
- iSCSI Configuration
- DRS, HA Advanced Configuration, VMotion, Storage VMotion, DPM
- Cluster Strategy
- HA Advanced Options
- DRS Advanced Options
- VMotion
- Storage VMotion
- Remote CLI
- Distributed Power Manager
- ESX Security Architecture
- Security Features
- The Virtualization Layer
- Service Console Security
- Virtual Networking
- Switch Security
- VLAN’s
- Virtual Switch Isolation
- Hardening your ESX Server
- The ESX Firewall
- XML Configuration for convenient port access
- Command-line configurations
- Advanced 3rd Party Tools
- VirtualCenter snap-ins
- Storage VMotion
- ESX Server Console Access
- Enterprise VSwitch configuration
- VM Disk partitioning utilities for the Virtual Infrastructure
- Diagnostic Tools and Performance Monitoring
- Dongle support
- PDA/Smart Phone tools
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Principles of VDI
- Install & Configure VMware VDI
- VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
- Architecture
- Installation
- Administration
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- Log File analysis and Session management
- ESX Server Log files
- VirtualCenter Logs
- VM log files
- Microsoft Clustering
- Install and configure the Microsoft Clustering service
- VMware command line tools
- esxcfg commands
- vmkfstools
- vmware-cmd
- top
- esxtop
- creating iso and flp images
- Virtual Appliances
- Exporting VM’s
- Importing VM’s
- OVF Tool
- NTP – Network Time Protocol
- Setup and config
- Capacity Planning and Sizing
- VMware Capacity Planner
- Power Recon
- HP tools
- VM Bench Mark
- ESX Run Levels and Services
- Run level description and overview
- ESX Services
- List of services
- Troubleshooting
- VM files and critical ESX files
- VM Resilient files purpose and roles
- VM non-resilient files purpose and roles
- Critical ESX server files
- VMware Lab Manager
- Architecture
- Installation
- Administration
- Upgrading and Patching ESX
- command line
- Patch Manager
- Appendix A – ESX Licensing
- Appendix B – Understanding and configuring ESX 3.5i
- Appendix C – Helpful websites
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Enrollment in this course is limited to a maximum of 12 students. If you would like more information regarding this course or would like to enroll, please contact us today.
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