VMware vSphere 5.1: Skills for Operators — A 2 day course

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Synopsis

VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators is a two-day technical classroom training course designed to help the operators and administrators to create and manage virtual machines.

This two day lecture and lab course will help students gain the skills required to work effectively with VMware virtual machines. This course is based on VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.

Objectives

• Describe virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Describe the concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Deploy, configure, and manage, and virtual machines
• Use vCenter Server to monitor virtual machine resource usage
• Use VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machines
• Secure virtual machines
• Troubleshoot problems with virtual machine configuration

Suitable For

Operators responsible for vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server management

Pre-requisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

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Contents

Introduction to VMware Virtualization

• Describe VMware virtualization
• Describe components and features of vSphere 5.1
• Describe a VMware virtual machine
• Identify the benefits of using a virtual machine

Using VMware vSphere Client and VMware vSphere Web Client

• Describe VMware vSphere Client
• Describe VMware vSphere Web Client
• Navigate through vCenter Server using vSphere Web Client

Virtual Machines: Creation and Management

• Describe virtual machine components
• Create a virtual machine
• Install guest operating system and VMware tools
• Describe cloning and Templates
• Clone a virtual machine and a template
• Describe an OVF template
• Deploy an OVF template
• Customize the guest operating system
• Configure virtual machine hardware
• Configure virtual machine options
• Register and unregister a virtual machine in vCenter Server
• Describe a snapshot
• Take, restore, consolidate, and delete a snapshot

Virtual Machine Resource Monitoring

• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU, memory, and disk usage
• Describe VMware vCenter Operations Manager
• Use vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms to monitor virtual machine resource usage
• Describe and monitor tasks
• Describe, monitor, and manage events
• Describe, monitor, manage, and acknowledge alarms

Managing Multitiered Applications Using VMware vSphere vApp(s)

• Describe vSphere vApp(s)
• Create, edit, and manage vApp
• Clone a vApp
• Manage power status of vApp

Migrating Virtual Machines

• Describe and use cold migration to migrate a virtual machine
• Verify host and virtual machine requirements for vSphere vMotion
• Migrate a virtual machine with vSphere vMotion
• Migrate virtual machine storage with vSphere Storage vMotion
• Describe CPU compatibility with EVC
• Describe VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• List DRS affinity rules

Securing Virtual Machines

• Describe virtual machine protection
• Configure logging levels for the Guest Operating System
• Manage copy and paste options
• Manage guest operating system writes to Host memory

Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

• Discuss a general troubleshooting philosophy and methodology
• Troubleshoot virtual machine problems
• Troubleshoot vSphere Client problems
• Introduce a general guideline for virtual machine backups
• Introduce VMware vSphere High Availability

Appendix A: Using Update Manager

• Describe VMware vSphere Update Manager
• Scan and update virtual