VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 - Advanced Course
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Course Overview
  
  • 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 SETUP
    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. At the end of the course students will have the option to take the MIA (Master Infrastructure Architect) Exam thus reinforcing concepts learned.

    • Objectives
      Topics
    • Introduction and Course Design
    • Disaster Recovery
    • SAN and ISCSI Configuration
    • DRS, HA Advanced Configuration, VMotion, Storage VMotion, DPM
    • ESX Security Architecture
    • Security Features
    • Hardening your ESX Server
    • Advanced 3rd Party Tools
    • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
    • VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
    • Log File analysis and Session management
    • Microsoft Clustering
    • VMware command line tools
    • Virtual Appliances
    • NTP - Network Time Protocol
    • Capacity Planning and Sizing
    • ESX Run Levels and Services
    • VM files and critical ESX files
    • VMware Lab Manager
    • Upgrading and Patching ESX
    • Appendix A - ESX Licensing
    • Appendix B - Understanding and configuring ESX 3.5i
    • Appendix C - Helpful websites

    Audience
      

    Prerequisites
      
    • ESX Server familiarity
    • VirtualCenter usage
    • VirtualCenter Administration
    • Excellent familiarity with Windows
    • Some familiarity with Linux


    Course Number
      NHVMwareESXVirt
    Course Length
      4 Days
    Course Price
      $3,250.00
    Category
      5
    Topics
      Introduction and Course Design
    • Pre-requisites
    • Classroom Conventions
    • Classroom Setup
    Disaster Recovery
    • Virtual Infrastructure Architecture
      • Components
      • Redundancy and rebuilding
    AN 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
    Virtual Appliances
    • Exporting VM's
    • Importing VM's
    • OVF Tool
    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
      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
    • Remote CLI
      • Storage VMotion
    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