Course Objectives

This course covers the following elements:

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

Course Benefits

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

• Understand visualization and virtual infrastructure components
  
• Set-up ESX Server
• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups
• Storage management technologies
• Set-up of VirtualCenter components
  
• Use of templates
• Use of VMware converter enterprise
  
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and WebAccess
• Use of guided consolidation
  
• Control administrator rights
• VMotion migration
  
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster
  
• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory and other resources
• Workload assessment  
• Monitoring using VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
• Guidelines and best practices for basic deployment