Course Objectives

This course covers the following elements:

• Perform scripted installation 
• Administer an ESX server using commands
• Configure Virtual Infrastructure Security
  
• Monitor Virtual Infrastrucutre
• Configure and implement VMware high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), consolidated backup, and update manager
• Perform fault analysis on Virtual Infrastructure components  
  

Course Benefits

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Understand Network Administration
  
• Manage virtual machine file systems (VMFS) datastores
  
• Introduce storage VMotion
• Configure and secure virtual networking
• Configure software iSCSI adapter
• Manage service console firewall
• Utilize DRS Configuration and Performance Monitoring
  
• Analyze and interpret performance using esxtop and graphical tools
• Create and manage DRS-enabled clusters
• Understand Business Continuity and Data Protection
• Configure advanced features of VMware HA cluster
• Perform backups and restoration of virtual machines using VMware consolidated backup
  
• Understand Operational Maintenance
  
• Configure and apply updates using VMware Update Manager
• Modify Logging Behavior
  
• Configure VirtualCenter and ESX Server logging
  
• Consolidate and rotate log files
• Understand service console security
• Configure SSH and TCP wrappers
• Utilize Rapid Deployment of ESX Servers
• Perform automated installation of ESX Servers for mass deployments
  

Course Duration

To ensure your success the following courses are recommended:

• VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure  

• Equivalent experience with VMware Infrastructure 3