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Installing and Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3: Hands-On

 
Course: 171   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Deploy and configure a highly available virtual infrastructure with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3)
  • Allocate networking and storage resources
  • Create VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and Network File System (NFS) datastores
  • Install and configure VirtualCenter for a secure and efficient virtualized IT environment
  • Secure the infrastructure to prevent unauthorized access
  • Pool resources for virtual machines with VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Course Benefits

Virtualizing the infrastructure offers tremendous opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery. However, implementing an optimal configuration requires a thorough knowledge of the technology along with practical experience. This course prepares you to manage a VMware Infrastructure 3 enterprise environment using the VirtualCenter Server and VMware ESX Server.

Who Should Attend

System administrators, data center infrastructure architects, systems engineers and operators as well as those interested in implementing ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter. Experience with system administration of Windows or Linux and networking knowledge is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Hands-on training exercises provide experience in designing and deploying a VMware virtual infrastructure and include:
  • Designing and implementing virtual switch plans and policies
  • Installing and configuring ESX and VirtualCenter Servers
  • Creating and cloning Virtual Machines from the VI Client and Web management interfaces
  • Moving a live VM using VMotion
  • Converting virtual machines to templates
  • Creating and managing resource pools

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Mar 10 - 13, 2009
 New York
Mar 10 - 13, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 24 - 27, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2009
 Atlanta
Apr 7 - 10, 2009
 Dallas
Apr 14 - 17, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Apr 21 - 24, 2009
 Ottawa
Apr 28 - May 1, 2009
 Philadelphia
May 5 - 8, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
May 12 - 15, 2009
 N. New Jersey
May 26 - 29, 2009
 Los Angeles
Jun 2 - 5, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jun 9 - 12, 2009
 Boston (Waltham)
Jun 16 - 19, 2009
 New York

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Installing and Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3: Hands-On

 
Course: 171   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 171 Content
 

Enterprise Virtualization Concepts

  • Virtualizing physical hardware
  • Mapping a physical data center topology to a virtual one
  • Sharing storage resources

Installing and Configuring ESX Server

First steps

  • Meeting VI3 minimum system requirements
  • Centralized vs. single host licensing
  • Building disk partitions

Installing VirtualCenter

  • Preparing the VirtualCenter Server database
  • Setting up your data connection

Configuring Network Resources

Defining VI3 network terminology

  • Utilizing physical network resources
  • Establishing ports and port groups

Designing virtual switches

  • Engineering a virtual switch layout
  • Changing switch assignments and properties
  • Firewalling with virtual switches
  • Combining physical network cards for automatic failover

Establishing policies

  • Implementing network policies for security
  • Shaping network traffic
  • Teaming network cards for performance

Accessing Shared Storage

Bringing up a datastore framework

  • Configuring VMkernel access to LUNs
  • Setting up a Network File System (NFS) datastore
  • Ensuring continued access with multipathing
  • Comparing ESX Server datastore options

Enabling Fibre Channel storage

  • Controlling access to the shared storage
  • Making Fibre Channel SANs available

Completing iSCSI setups

  • Identifying the components of iSCSI
  • Authenticating the ESX Server with CHAP

Initiating VMFS data stores

  • Creating a VMFS
  • Extending a VMFS

Managing via VirtualCenter

Installing the VirtualCenter components

  • VMware License Server
  • VirtualCenter database
  • VMware Infrastructure Client

Maintaining ESX server

  • Adding an ESX server to the inventory
  • Directing an ESX server to the License Server

VirtualCenter and multiple datacenters

  • Grouping datacenters in folders
  • Combining hosts into a cluster

Working with Virtual Machines

Creating virtual machines

  • Creating a base virtual machine image
  • Enabling multiple CPUs with Virtual SMP

Customizing advanced VM features

  • Improving performance with VMware Tools
  • Provisioning new VMs with templates and clones

Managing VMs

  • Moving VMs between ESX servers
  • Preserving VM states with snapshots

Securing Access to the Infrastructure

Setting up security

  • Authoring VirtualCenter permissions
  • Establishing permission inheritance
  • Assessing permissions at different inventory levels

Initiating Web access controls

  • Providing end user access to VMs
  • Logging into VirtualCenter
  • Managing VMs from the Web

Extending Resource Management

Handling resource pools

  • Allocating CPU and memory resources
  • Defining Shares, Reservations and Limits
  • Creating resource pools

VI3 enterprise features

  • Organizing datacenter clusters
  • Adding hosts to a High Availability (HA) cluster
  • Moving a powered-on VM to another machine with VMotion
  • Balancing resources with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
  • VMware Consolidated Backup
 
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Installing and Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 171   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
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$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

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