Course Objectives

This course will cover the following elements:

• Perform manual and scripted ESX Server Installations
• Understand and configure security on the service console
  
• Install, configure, migrate, manage and monitor virtual machines using ESX Server and VirtualCenter
• Utilize VMware Converter and VMware Update Manager
• Learn specific commands used to administer an ESX Server
• Configure and implement VMware HA, DRS and VCB
• Perform fault analysis in Virtual Infrastructure
  

Course Benefits

Upon successful completion students will be able to:

• Understand VMware products' functions and applications
• Perform an interactive installation of ESX Server
• Configure virtual switches, network connections and port groups through the GUI interfaces and CLI
• Identify how virtual infrastructure mitigates common security vulnerabilities
• Manage the service console firewall
• Survey storage management technologies
• Configure iSCSI storage access
• Secure access to storage and networks
• Analyze and troubleshoot a storage-related issue
• configure VirtualCenter
• Use Virtual machines using VMware VirtualCenter
• Control administrator rights
• Migrate VMs using VMotion
  
• Set VM priorities for core resources
  
• Create DRS enabled clusters
• Manage resource pools
• Interpret performance graphs
  
•  Enable a VMware HA cluster
• Perform backups using VMware consolidated backup
• Patch VMS and templates 
• Configure ESX server logging behavior
  
• Identify ESX server and vc server log files
• Manage user and host access and privileges
  
• Perform a scripted installation of ESX Server