Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Course Content

This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. The course has been updated to reflect ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5.

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

Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course

Course Outline

• Module 1 - Virtual Infrastructure Overview
  - Virtual Infrastructure Overview
• Module 2 - ESX Server Installation
  - Set-up of ESX Server
• Module 3 - Networking
  - Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups
• Module 4 - Storage
  - Storage management technologies
• Module 5 - VirtualCenter Installation
  - Set-up of VirtualCenter
• Module 6 - VM Creation and Management
  - Use of templates
  - Cold and Hot (VMotion) migrations
  Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
• Module 7 - Resource Management
  - Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources
• Module 8 - Virtual Machine Access Control
  - Controlling administrator rights
• Module 9 - Monitoring your Environment
  - Workload assessment
  - Service Console monitoring
• Module 10 - Data and Availability Protection
  - Clustering, backups, failover
• Module 11 - Troubleshooting
  - System architecture
  - Systematic isolation of problems
  - Common symptoms, faults, fixes

Who Should Attend

• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• Operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter

Dates and Locations

• 09 Sep 2008 Edinburgh
• 14 Oct 2008 Glasgow
• 04 Nov 2008 Aberdeen
• 11 Nov 2008 Glasgow
• 09 Dec 2008 Edinburgh