VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5

Course overview

This 4-day hands-on course explores VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter, and has been updated to reflect version 3.5. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course. This course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on lab.

The course has been updated to reflect ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5. Students who complete this course should enroll next in HB934S: VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems

Audience

• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter

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Course objectives

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware Infrastructure 3 and be able to:

• Install ESX Server
• Configure ESX Server networking and storage
• Install and configure VirtualCenter
• Control user access to the VMware infrastructure. Deploy and manage virtual machines using VirtualCenter
• Allocate and monitor virtual machines' resources
• Ensure high availability of applications

Next steps

• VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure and Analyze V3.5 (HB934S)

Course outline

• Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components

ESX server installation

• Set-up of ESX Server

Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

Storage

• Storage management technologies

VirtualCenter installation

• Set-up of VirtualCenter

VM Creation and Management

• Use of templates
• Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Use of Guide Consolidation

Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Resource Management

• VMotion migrations
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU memory, and other resources

Resource Monitoring

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter

Data and Availability Protection

• Backup strategies
• Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster

Planning VI Deployment

• Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment