VMware Infrastructure 3: Install & Configure

This deep hands-on training course explores VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter. VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure is a prerequisite to taking the certification exam and becoming a VMware Certified Professional. This course is a prerequisite
for a course entitled VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze v3.5.


Audience
The audience of this course consists of System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter.


At Course Completion
At the end of the course, you will understand the functionality in VMware Infrastructure 3 and be able to:

• Install and configure virtual machines
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources
• Migrate and manage virtual machines
• Ensure high availability of applications
• Troubleshoot typical ESX Server issues

Prerequisites
System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.


Course Outline

Module 1: Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• VMware products: functions and applications

Module 2: ESX Server Installation

• Set-up of ESX Server

Module 3: Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

Module 4: Storage
Storage management technologies

Module 5: VirtualCenter Installation

• Set-up of VirtualCenter

Module 6: Creation and Management of VMs

• Use of templates
• Cold and Hot (VMotion) migrations
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and
• Web Access

Module 7: Resource Management

• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources

Module 8: Virtual Machine Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Module 9: Monitoring Your Environment

• Workload assessment
• Service Console monitoring

Module 10: Data and Availability Protection

• Clustering, backups, failover

Module 11: Troubleshooting

• System architecture
• Systematic isolation of problems
• Common symptoms, faults, fix