VMWARE TRAINING

Course Objectives

• Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Benefits of Virtualization
• Certification
• Physical and Virtual Architecture

ESXi

• ESXi Installation
• ESXi Configuration
• Configuring Lockdown Mode and Stick Lockdown Mode

Virtual Machine

• Virtual Machine Deployment
• Virtual Machine Configuration
• Virtual Machine Files
• Virtual Machine virtual hardware
• Virtual hardware version
• VM CPU and Memory
• Virtual Disk (Thin-Provisioned and Thick Provisioned)
• Virtual Machine console
• Managing VMware Tools

VMware vCenter Server

• vCenter Overview
• Benefits of vCenter
• vCenter Server Architecture
• vCenter services
• vCenter deployment
• PSC- Platform service controller
• vCenter Server Install
• vCenter Server Upgrade
• vCenter Server Migrate
• vCenter Server Restore
• vCenter Server Backup

Configure and Manage Virtual Networks

• Types of Virtual Switch
• Standard Switch
• Distributed Switch
• Configuring Switch Policies
• Configuring Security Policies
• NIC Teaming and Failover Policies
• Detecting and handling Network Failure

Configure and Manage Virtual Storage

• About Datastore
• Datastore configuration
• Increasing Datastore size
• Deleting or Unmounting Datastore
• VMkernel Port Configuration
• About VMFS 6
• About NFS
• Basic Storage Overview
• Raw Device Mapping
• Fiber Channel storage
• Multi pathing
• iSCSI Storage
• ESXi Network configuration for IP storage
• Configuring NFS Datastore.

Virtual Machine Management

• Creating Template
• Deploy VM from Template
• Customizing Guest OS
• Cloning VM
• About Content Library
• Hot-Pluggable Devices
• Inflating Thin Provisioning Disk
• About Snapshot
• Managing Snapshot
• Deleting Snapshot
• Deleting All VM snapshots
• Snapshot Consolidation

Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Configure ESXi lockdown mode
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

High Availability

• About HA (High Availability)
• HA Prerequisites
• Configuring HA Setting
• HA – Failure and Responses
• Virtual Machine Monitoring
• Heartbeat Datastore
• Admission control

DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)

• DRS Prerequisites
• DRS Configuration
• Automation Level
• DRS Groups
• Affinity Rules
• Anti-Affinity Rules
• vMotion

vSphere Fault Tolerance

• FT Feature
• FT Prerequisites
• FT Configuration
• Fast Checking
• Shared Files
• Enabling FT

Update Manager

• Baseline
• Baseline Groups
• ESXi Patching
• ESXi Upgradation
• Alarms and Notification
• Troubleshooting

VMware vShield Zones

• Resource Management and Monitoring
• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

Troubleshooting

• Virtual Machine
• ESXI
• Network
• HA, DRS, FT