Advanced VMware vSphere with ESX and vCenter Training

Public Training Price: $2895 per student
Private Training Price: $23100 for up to 12 students*
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Advanced VMware vSphere Training Class Summary

The vSphere suite of products consisting of ESX Server 4.0, VirtualCenter 4.0 and VMware Consolidated Backup is exceptionally powerful and comprehensive. Our advanced course is intended for students with significant production experience in the Infrastructure 3 product suite. This Advanced VMware vSphere course will take their existing knowledge base and greatly expand it.

Audience: System Administrators with significant production experience in the Infrastructure 3 product suite.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with ESX Server, VirtualCenter or vSphere usage and administration, Windows, and some familiarity with Linux.

Class Length: 4 days

Advanced VMware vSphere Training Class Objectives
  • Understand the architecture of ESX security.
  • Install and Configure VMware View
  • Utilize Advanced third-party tools.
  • Work with VMware command line tools.
  • Successfully upgrade and patch ESX.
Advanced VMware vSphere Training Class Outline
  1. Introduction and Course Design
    • Pre-requisites
    • Classroom Conventions
    • Classroom Setup
  2. Disaster Recovery
    • Virtual Infrastructure Architecture
    • Components
    • Redundancy and rebuilding
  3. SAN and ISCSI Configuration
    • SAN Design and deployment
    • SAN Component overview
    • iSCSI Configuration
  4. DRS, HA Advanced Configuration, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DPM
    • Cluster Strategy
    • HA Advanced Options
    • DRS Advanced Options
    • vMotion
    • Distributed Power Manager
  5. Virtual Appliances
    • Exporting VM’s
    • Importing VM’s
    • OVF Tool
  6. ESX Security Architecture
    • Security Features
    • The Virtualization Layer
    • Service Console Security
    • Virtual Networking
    • Switch Security
    • VLAN’s
    • Virtual Switch Isolation
  7. Hardening your ESX Server
    • The ESX Firewall
    • XML Configuration for convenient port access
    • Command-line configurations
  8. Advanced 3rd Party Tools
    • VirtualCenter snap-ins
    • Storage VMotion
    • ESX Server Console Access
    • Enterprise VSwitch configuration
    • VM Disk partitioning utilities for the Virtual Infrastructure
    • Diagnostic Tools and Performance Monitoring
    • Dongle support
    • PDA/Smart Phone tools
  9. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VMware View)
    • Principles of VDI (VMware View)
    • Install & Configure VMware VDI (VMware View)
  10. VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
    • Architecture
    • Installation
    • Administration
  11. Log File analysis and Session management
    • ESX Server log files
    • VirtualCenter logs
    • VM log files
  12. VMware command line tools
    • esxcfg commands
    • vmkfstools
    • vmware-cmd
    • top
    • esxtop
    • creating iso and flp images
    • Remote CLI
    • Storage VMotion
  13. NTP – Network Time Protocol
    • Setup and config
  14. Capacity Planning and Sizing
    • VMware Capacity Planner
    • Power Recon
    • HP tools
    • VM Bench Mark
  15. ESX Run Levels and Services
    • Run level description and overview
    • ESX Services
    • List of services
    • Troubleshooting
  16. VM files and critical ESX files
    • VM Resilient files purpose and roles
    • VM non-resilient files purpose and roles
    • Critical ESX server files
  17. Upgrading and Patching ESX
    • command line
    • Patch Manager
  18. Appendix A – ESX Licensing
  19. Appendix B - VMware Lab Manager
  20. Appendix C - Microsoft Clustering
  21. Appendix D – Understanding and configuring ESX 3.5i
  22. Appendix E – Helpful websites

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