VMware vSphere 4.0: Administration Fundamentals

Course Outline

Duration: 4 Days

Is This Course Right for Me? This course is perfect for System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESX 4 Server and/or VirtualCenter who are interested in a compact yet powerful 4 day course. The Adminstration Fundamentals course is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience and system administration experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux.

Description: The VMware® vSphere 4.0 Administration Fundamentals class is taught by top virtualization expert instructors in a distraction-free classroom environment. This course takes a comprehensive look at installing, configuring, deploying, securing, analyzing, consolidating, and designing virtual networks from beginner to intermediate levels and is packed with more powerful hands-on labs than are available in any other 4 day class!

Chapter 1: Course Intro & Methodology

Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview

Chapter 3: Planning & Installing ESX & ESXi

1. Planning ESX Server Deployment

2. vSphere 4 Deployment Guidelines

3. ESX Installation

4. ESX Management

5. ESXi Installation

6. ESXi Management

7. Configuring Resolution Mgt and NTP

Chapter 4: Using Tools to Administer a Vmware Environment

1. Overview of 3rd Party Tools

Chapter 5: Configuring Networking

1. Create & Modify Virtual Networks

Chapter 6: Configuring Storage

1. iSCSI Storage

2. Fibre Channel Storage

3. VMFS Datastores

4. NAS Storage and NFS Datastores

5. Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

6. Storage Comparisons

Chapter 7: vCenter and License Server

1. Licensing

2. vCenter Installation

3. vCenter Inventory

4. Managing vCenter

5. Planning vCenter Deployment

6. Troubleshooting vCenter, license, and database

7. Troubleshooting the VIC

Chapter 8: VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots

1. Create a VM

2. Create Multiple VMs

3. Virtual Appliances

4. Physical to Virtual Conversions

5. Manage VMs

6. Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown

7. Virtual Machine Snapshots

8. Web Access

9. Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

10. Data Recovery (GUI Backup & Restore)

Chapter 9: Security and Permissions

1. User Access

Chapter 10: Advanced ESX and vCenter Management

1. Configuring VMotion

2. Storage VMotion

3. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

4. Resource Pools in DRS Cluster

5. High Availability (HA)

Chapter 11: Patching and Upgrading ESX

1. Patching ESX Server 4

2. Upgrades and Migrations

3. Update Manager

4. Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x

Chapter 12: Server and VM Monitoring

1. Tools for Optimization

2. Monitor VM Performance

3. Configuring Alarms

4. ESX and vCenter Log Files