VMware vSphere 5 Essential Skills

Title

VMware vSphere™ 5 Essential Skills

Summary

Class formats available:

• Instructor Led Class
• Remote Instruction (online learning)
• Private / Onsite for groups of 3 or more

Length

2 Days (16 hours of instruction)

Overview

This fully interactive, hands-on class places students directly into a real VMware vSphere 5 datacenter, using real servers and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Computing resources.

Upon completion, students will have the skills required to use, manage and deploy Virtual Machines in a VMware vSphere 5 datacenter environment with VMware ESXi™ 5 and VMware vCenter™ Server 5.

Objectives

• Build Virtual Machines from an ISO image
• Create a Template and deploy Virtual Machines
• Use Operating System guest customization (Sysprep, Customization Specification)
• Import and use a Virtual Appliance (OVF/OVA)
• Manage Virtual Machines
• Use vCenter Server Performance Charts to monitor Virtual Machines
• Use vMotion and Storage vMotion to migrate Virtual Machines and disks
• Problem solving with Virtual Machines (is it VMware or is it Windows?)

Each objective will be reinforced with a total of 24 Step-by-Step Labs (SBS Labs)!

Who should attend?

Administrators, operators, and help-desk personnel who are responsible for working directly with Virtual Machines in a VMware vSphere 5 environment.

Prerequisites

Administration with Microsoft Windows operating systems

Outline

Module 1.        Introduction and Overview

SBS LAB I.         Connecting to the datacenter

Module 2.        Grounds for Virtualization

• What is VMware vSphere

Module 3.        Building Virtual Machines

SBS LAB I.         Configuring a new Virtual Machine

SBS LAB II.       Installing a guest operating system from ISO image

SBS LAB III.     Install VMware Tools

SBS LAB IV.     Time management in Virtual Machines (VMware Tools, Windows Time, NTP)

SBS LAB V.       Understanding and using snapshots correctly

SBS LAB VI.     Create a live clone of a Virtual Machine

SBS LAB VII.   Edit Virtual Machine settings (memory, disk, network)

Module 4.        10 Best Practices For Business-Critical Virtual Machines

SBS LAB I.         Create a Virtual Machine for use with business-critical apps such as SQL or SAP

SBS LAB II.       Using VMware vmxnet3 and pvscsi drivers

Module 5.        Using Templates

SBS LAB I.         Convert / clone Virtual Machine to Template

SBS LAB II.       Creating and editing an operating system customization speciation (Sysprep)

SBS LAB III.     Deploy Virtual Machines from Template

Module 6.        Virtual Appliances

SBS LAB I.         Import a Virtual Appliance

SBS LAB II.       Configure Virtual Appliance storage and networking

Module 7.        Virtual Machine resource management and monitoring

SBS LAB I.         Setting Virtual Machine resource allocation (shares, reservations, limits)

SBS LAB II.       Monitoring Virtual Machine resource utilization with vCenter

SBS LAB III.     Creating and using Resource Pools

Module 8.        Virtual Machine Location and Live migration

• Understanding the prerequisites of vMotion

SBS LAB I.         Migrate a Virtual Machine live with vMotion

SBS LAB II.       Migrate a Virtual Machine disk with Storage vMotion

Module 9.        Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

SBS LAB I.         Understanding the origin of the problem - "Is it Windows or is it VMware?"

SBS LAB II.       Diagnosing CPU Constraint to the Virtual Machine (not enough CPU allocated)

SBS LAB III.     Diagnosing CPU constraint to the Environment (not enough resources available)

SBS LAB IV.     Diagnosing networking issues within the VM