VMware vSphere 5.X Boot Camp

    

Summary:
This powerful 5-day 10hr/day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere 5.X including VMware 5.X and vCenter. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to advanced topics. 40+% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced.

This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify and eliminate common IT pain points and then to use virtualization to delivers clear, tangible benefits. Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.

The 10hr/day format gives attendees the time to learn about and use advanced VMware topics and develop superior VMware management, deployment and troubleshooting skills.

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 5.X.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:

System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure
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 VMware ESX 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:

• Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
• Virtual and Physical Networking
• NAS Shared Storage
• Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
• vCenter
• VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
• Advanced Virtual Machines
• ESXi and vCenter Permission Model
• Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage
• VMware File System (VMFS)
• Resource Management and Resource Pools
• ESXi and vCenter Alarms
• Host Profiles
• Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone
• Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery
• VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion
• Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler
• Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• Patch Management with VMware Update Manager
• Managing Scalability and Performance
• vCenter and vCenter Linked Mode
• Final Thoughts
• How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.X Installable

Prerequisites:
Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.

Last Update: June 19, 2013