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Course IntroductionModule 1

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ImportanceThis course will equip administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to build and run a VMware vSphere® environment. This course focuses on the installation and configuration of VMware ESXi™ hosts and VMware vCenter Server™. This course also focuses on the management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines with vCenter Server.

This course will help prepare IT professionals to achieve the status of VMware® Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5).

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Learner ObjectivesAfter this course, you should be able to do the following: Deploy ESXi, vCenter Server (Windows-based) or vCenter Server

appliance Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi host

networking and storage Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines Manage user access to virtual datacenter objects Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage and to increase

scalability Use vCenter Server to manage data protection and high

availability Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi host

patches





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Course Introduction

Introduction to Virtualization

Virtual Machines

VMware vCenter Server

Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

Configure and Manage Virtual Storage

Managing Virtual Machines

Data Protection

Access & Authentication Control

Resource Management and Monitoring

High Availability

Scalability

Patch Management

Installing vSphere Components





Typographical Conventions The following typographical conventions are used in this course:

Monospace Filenames, folder names, path names, command names:the bin directory

Monospace bold What the user types:Type ipconfig and press Enter.

Boldface Graphical user interface items:the Configuration tab

Italic Book titles and emphasis:vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide

<filename> Placeholders:<ESXi_host_name>





What Is VMware vSphere?An infrastructure virtualization suite that does the following:

Provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities

Aggregates physical hardware resources and provides virtual resources to the datacenter

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter Suite

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

App

Existing Applications Future Applications

ApplicationServices

InfrastructureServices

VMware vSphere vMotion®vSphere Storage vMotionvSphere HAFault ToleranceData Recovery

VMware vShield ZonesVMware VMsafe®

DRSHot Add

VMware ESXi™DRS and VMware DPMMemory Overcommit

VMFSThin ProvisioningStorage I/O Control

Distributed SwitchNetwork I/O Control

Private Cloud Resource Pools Public Cloud

Availability Scalability

Storage Network

Security

Compute





VCP on vSphere 5 Certification

The VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Program• For technical individuals who want to demonstrate their vSphere

expertise and advance their careerhttp://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification/


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VMware Online ResourcesVMware Communities: http://communities.vmware.com

Start a discussion, and access communities and user groups.VMware Support: http://www.vmware.com/support

Access the knowledge base, documentation, technical papers, and compatibility guides.

VMware Education: http://www.vmware.com/education Access the course catalog and worldwide course schedule. Access information about advanced courses to continue on your

virtualization training path.

For easy access to online resources, install the VMware toolbar.





vSphere Production DocumentationFor vSphere product documentation, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.See the current vSphere manuals at this Web site for information about configuration maximums and installation requirements.





Key Points This course teaches you how to install, manage, and

configure your vSphere environment.

This course helps prepare you to achieve the status of VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5).





Course ContentIntroduction:• What is Virtualization?

• Why Virtualization? • Benefits of Virtualization

• Virtualization overview in Industry • VMware History

• Host Based and Hypervisor based Virtualization • Other Virtualization Product in Market

• Role of VMware in Cloud Computing.





VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.5:• ESX/ESXi: Virtualization Platform • ESXi Installable, ESXi Embedded, and ESX • ESX/ESXi Architecture • Installation of Hypervisor (ESX 4.0, ESXi4.1, ESXi5.0 , ESXi5.1 & ESXi5.5) • Configure Management Network • Configure DNS and Routing • ESX/ESXi as an NTP Client • Connecting to an ESX/ESXi Host using vSphere Client and CLI • VMware vCenter Server & Installing vCenter Server • vCenter Server Architecture and its components • vCenter Server Pre-requisites for hardware and software • vCenter Database Requirement • vCenter Server Services • Managing vCenter Server • vCenter server Datastores and Networks • Adding host to vCenter Server • vCenter server Events, Export logs • Installation of VMware vSphere Client





• Installation of Web Client • vCenter server virtual appliance(VCA)

Virtual Machines and its Modifications• Virtual Machine concepts • Files in VM, VM hardware like vCPU, vRAM, virtual disk, virtual network card, console • Creating new VM, installing windows, Linux & Solaris guest OS in VM • VMware tools and its roles • Modifying VMs, How to add and remove virtual hardware • Creating RDM for VM NEW in VMware 5.5 • Improved CPU Virtualization • Introducing Virtual Machine Compatibility • Changing Virtual Machine Compatibility Level





Networking• Configuring Standard Switches • Configuring Virtual Machine in Port Group • NIC Teaming in Switch • Real time scenario in Switches • Configuring Distributed Switches • Migrating VM and VMKernel port from Standard switch to Distributed switch





VMware vSphere Storage• Using VMFS Data Store with ESX & ESXi • Creating and Browsing VMFS and NFS Datastore • Various Methods to increase the size of Datastore • Deleting VMFS DataStore • Configuration of iSCSI software adapter • Multipathing with Fiber Channel , iSCSI Storage • Managing Multiple Storage Paths and Load Balancing • Integration with NetApp & Clariion Virtual Machine Management • Clones and Templates : • Creating Templates and Clones for a VM • Deploying Virtual Machine from Template and OVF Template • Managing Virtual Machines: Creating, Managing and Remove snapshots • Various Migration types: •Cold Migration, Suspended Migration, vMotion and StoragevMotion, enhanced vMotion.• vMotion Migration:





Resource MonitoringBasics of CPU and Memory Virtualization• Multicore Processors, Hyper threading and Load balancing• Overview of Memory Virtualization • Memory Reclamation Techniques · Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) • Balloon Driver Mechanism• Memory Compression • VMkernel Swap• What is Resource Pool? • Why we need Resource Pool?• Creation of Resource Pool, its attributes and Reservations • Virtual Machine CPU, Memory and I/O Settings • Admission Control for CPU and Memory





Resource Control and Management• Performance tuning methods • How to use Perfmon tools and vCenter Server performance tab • How to analyze data from tools using graphs





Security Control:Access control overview,• User and groups, roles, assigning Permission • Various Permission Scenarios





Alarms

• Alarm Settings and Triggers, conditional and event triggers





Configuring reporting, vCenter notification HA cluster Administration• What is High Availability?• Architecture of HA in VMware vSphere 5.5• Master and Slave Concepts• HA Failure Scenarios, Master Host and Slave Host Failure• How to Configure vCenter HA? How to use HA and DRS together?• How to Enable or Disable HA?• Advance option in HA, Planning Resource for HA and DRS• NIC teaming in HA, Add network in HA





Fault Tolerance What is FT? How FT works for a VM?• FT Do’s and Don'ts • Enabling FT for VM? • Managing FT for VMS • Implementing FT for VM • Real Time Scenarios





Distributed Resource Scheduler What are DRS? How to configure DRS? Pre-requisites for DRS?• What are EVC and its requirements? How to configure Affinity and • Non-Affinity Rules? Creation of DRS Host and Virtual Machine Groups





Update Manager Administration• Concepts, Capabilities, Components

• Using update manager for ESX patching.





VMware vSphere Basic Troubleshooting• Using esxcli commands in VMA• Using esxcfg commands on host• commands related to Networking• commands related to Storage• Monitoring CPU Performance• Diagnosing CPU Performance• Monitoring Memory Performance• Diagnosing Memory Performance• senarios of all networking issues• senarios of vMotion issues• senarios of storage vmotion issues• senarios of HA & FT issues• senarios of DRS issues





Other Issues and Troubleshooting in realtime ESX vs ESXI servers.• Bios and firmware Upgradation on the esxi hosts• ESXI upgradation• Vcenter Upgradation• ESX host Performance monitoring Using ESXTOP• VMWARE converter for P2v and V2v• New Server 2008 r2 or 2012 r2 build= preimplementation implementation and post implementation planning





Affinity rules and Antiaffinity Rules in DRS• PSOD issue troubleshooting• ESX host disconnected issue troubleshooting• Virtual machine not able to power on troubleshooting• Taking snapshots from command mode• Virtual machine operations using command mode• Extending the C drive in Windows servers• Configuration of alerts through vcenter.





Vmware tools installation in Linux and windows.• VMtools upgrade• Windows 2012 R2 build procedure• Virtual machine post installation steps• Vmotion failed at 10% how to troubleshoot• Switch properties in detail.




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