VMware vSphere 4.1 Boot Camp

    

Summary:
This class is an intensive introduction to VMware's vSphere™ including VMware ESXi™ 4 and vCenter™ 4.1. It is delivered in boot camp format of 5, 10 hour extended training days. This class is intended for experienced Windows and Linux administrators who need to take charge of their VMware implementation/operation and then drive it to the max. No prior virtualization experience is assumed, but a willingness to work hard is required! This class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. More than 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are reinforced.All key aspects of VMware vSphere are covered - from installation of ESXi and vCenter through to resource & power management, back up & recovery, monitoring and alarms, load balancing, service availability, and much more. Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business and/or economic value - not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software. Advanced topics address both vSphere and Virtual Machine scalability, performance, reliability, availability and security.By the end of the class; attendees will have learned the benefits, skills, and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere 4.1.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
-System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure-Senior administrators responsible for technical design and implementation of new Virtual Infrastructure projects-Security specialists responsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure-Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure-Performance and capacity analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure-Backup Administrators who need to understand the impact of existing and new back up strategies in a virtual environment -Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability-Storage administrators who need to understand how Virtual Infrastructure sees and uses Fibre SAN and iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores-Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.

Topics:

• Class Introduction
• Virtualization Infrastructure
• Installing ESXi 4.1
• Virtual and Physical Networking
• NAS Shared Storage
• Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
• vCenter
• VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
• ESX and vCenter Permission Model
• Advanced Virtual Networking
• Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
• VMware File System (VMFS)
• Resource Management and Resource Pools
• Guided Consolidation
• VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion
• Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Failure Recover with High Availability Clusters
• VM Back Up, Recovery
• Consolidation with vCenter Converter
• ESX and vCenter Alarms
• Patch Management with VMware Update Manager
• Managing Scalability and Performance
• vCenter Linked Mode
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• ESXi Host Profiles
• VMware vApp
• Final Thoughts

Last Update: May 19, 2013