VMware vSphere 5.0 Boot Camp
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Format	5-day 10hr/day instructor led training
Course Books	700+ pg Study Guide with slide notes 250+ pg Lab Guide with detailed steps for completing labs
vSphere Version	Covers VMware vSphere 5.0 including ESXi 5.0 and vCenter
Delivery	Remote access to dedicated rack of servers with one HP DL365 server/student, an iSCSI SAN, etc.
Max Attendees	Limited by server availability. We currently have 150+ student servers available
Requirements	Course can be run from any location that has a reliable Internet connection. Each attendee needs a PC that supports Microsoft Terminal Services
Lab Time	40+% of class time is devoted to hands-on labs
Availability	January, 2012
Certification	Prepares attendees to challenge the ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist exam One exam voucher included with this class
Suggested Price	$4,295 USD

Overview

This powerful 5-day 10hr/day class is an intensive introduction to VMware vSphere™ 5.0 including VMware ESX™ 5.0 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.

Labs start with installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers and progress to shared storage, networking and centralized management. The class continues to advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, power management, back up and recovery, performance, vCenter redundancy, VM redundancy. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered.

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 5.0.

Objectives

At the end of the course, attendees will be able to:

Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
Install ESXi Server according to best practices
Configure and manage local storage
Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments
Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
Define and use file share (NAS) datastores
Install, configure and administer VMware vCenter
Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
Create clones - one-time copies of virtual machine
Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN
Deploy and use VMware Data Recovery to back up and recover VMs
Perform individual VM file level recoveries
Create and manage load balanced clusters
Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures
Configure and create VMs in Fault Tolerant mode for 100% VM uptime
Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
Deploy vCenter in Linked Mode for full management redundancy
Troubleshoot common problems

Who Should Attend

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

System architectsor others who need to design virtual infrastructure
Security specialistsresponsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure
Operatorsresponsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure
Performance and capacity analystswho need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure
Backup Administratorswho need to understand the impact of existing and new back up strategies in a virtual environment
Business Continuity specialistsresponsible for disaster recovery and high availability
Storage administratorswho 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

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.

Chapter List

Our class consists of the following 24 chapters:

Chapter 1 – Virtualization Infrastructure Overview

Chapter 2 – How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.0 Installable

Chapter 3 – Virtual and Physical Networking

Chapter 4 – NAS Shared Storage

Chapter 5 – Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines

Chapter 6 – vCenter

Chapter 7 – VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones

Chapter 8 – Advanced Virtual Machines

Chapter 9 – ESXi and vCenter Permission Model

Chapter 10 – Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage

Chapter 11 – VMware File System (VMFS)

Chapter 12 – Resource Management and Resource Pools

Chapter 13 – ESX and vCenter Alarms

Chapter 14 – Host Profiles

Chapter 15 – Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone

Chapter 16 – Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery

Chapter 17 – VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion

Chapter 18 – Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler

Chapter 19 – Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

Chapter 20 – VM Fault Tolerance

Chapter 21 – Patch Management with VMware Update Manager

Chapter 22 – vCenter Redundancy with vCenter Linked Mode

Chapter 23 – Managing Scalability and Performance

Chapter 24 – Final Thoughts

Hands On Labs

Attendees will complete the following hands on labs during the class:

Install of ESXi 5.0 and perform post-install configurations
Create and update network Standard Virtual Switches
Define, connect to and browse NFS file shares
Create a Virtual Machine. Install Windows 2003 into the VM. Install VMware Tools into the VM. Add 3^rdparty tools and utilities to the VM
Install and configure vCenter on Windows 2003. Install vCenter Modules
Configure vCenter's inventory views to organize inventory objects
Work with Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template. Rapidly deploy new VMs from template. Copy VMs using cloning. Use guest OS customization to easily change the identity of a VM. Create, update and deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
Work with virtual disks. Hot add a secondary virtual disk. Grow a non-system volume. Grow a Windows system disk and increase it's partitions
Work with vCenter permissions. Use and customize Roles
Create, update and work with Virtual Switches. Create NIC Teams for added performance and redundancy
iSCSI, Fibre Storage Area Networks. Connecting to shared storage
Create/use an iSCSI Raw Device Map
Work with storage multipath selection policies for better performance
VMware VMFS – How to create, tune and grow VMFS volumes
Resource pools. Work with resource tuning settings
VM migration including Cold Migration, Storage Migration and VMotion
Automated VM resource load balancing with DRS clusters
Use HA clusters to minimize VM down time due to server failures
Enable and test VM Fault Tolerance for 100% VM uptime
Back up and restore VMs using VMware Data Recovery
Perform VM file level recoveries using VMware Data Recovery
Using Converter Standalone to migrate physical machines to VMs
vCenter alarms for monitoring key infrastructure objects. Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM resource consumption
Set up VMware Update Manager to patch/update ESXi hosts
Performance analysis and benchmarking storage and networking
Install vCenter in Linked Mode for added management redundancy
Use Host Profiles to ensure ESXi host configuration compliance

Certification

Attendees have the option to earn ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist (ECVS) by challenging a certification exam a the end of the course.

Detailed Chapter List