VMware vSphere online training
Table of Contents
VMware vSphere 5.x
- Introduction to Virtualization
- Understanding Virtualization
- Virtualization products
- Introduction to VMWare ESX Server
- Understanding features of ESX Server
- Understanding product portfolio of VMWARE
- Installation of ESX Server
- Planning ESX Server
- Understanding requirements
- Deploying ESX Server
- Understanding vSphere Client
- Understanding ESX Licensing
- Up-gradation of ESX Server
- Requirements for Migration
- Understand & Deploy Virtual Machines
- Deploying Virtual Machines
- Editing Virtual Machines
- Removing Virtual Machines
- Deploying Guest Operating System into VM
- Managing VM’s through ESX Commands
- Understanding VMWare tools
- Deploying VMWare tools
- Configuring VM’s to autostart & auto shutdown
- Understand ESX Server hardware Architecture
- Understanding ESX Operating System
- Understanding Virtualization kernel
- Understanding CPU, Memory Management
- Understanding ballooning
- Understanding Transparent page Sharing
- Understand Storage Technologies
- DAS
- SAN
- NAS
- ISCSI
- ESX Storage
- Configuring Storage adaptors
- Understanding VMFS file system
- Configuring VMFS Partitions
- Adding ISCSI Storage
- Adding NAS Storage
- Adding FC SAN Storage
- Virtual Networking
- Understanding VLAN’s, Trunks
- Understanding VSwitch & port group
- Configuring Virtual Switch & Port groups
- Understanding VMKernal Adaptor
- Configuring Load Balancing,
- Understanding Security policies
- Configuring Traffic Shaping policies
- Managing Network with ESX commands
- Install & Configure VCenter Server 5
- Understanding Features of VCenter server
- Understanding Architecture of Vcenter Server
- Installing VCenter server
- Understanding Vcenter Licensing
- Adding ESX Hosts to Vcenter Server
- VM Management – VCenter Server
- Understanding cloning & Templates
- Cloning VM’s
- Deploying VM’s using templates
- Preparing Templates
VMware vSphere 5.5
- User Access Control
- Understand roles & Privileges
- Create and modify user permission in ESX server
- Adding and Modify users
- Defining & Applying roles
- Scheduled TASK, Events & Alarms
- Understanding Tasks, Events & Alarms
- Configuring SMTP
- Configuring Alarms
- VM Migration
- Understanding Classic & Storage VMotion
- Configuring Classic & Storage VMotion
- Testing Classic & Storage VMotion
- Distributed Switch
- Understanding Distributed Switch Architecture
- Configuring Distributed Switch
- Understanding VLAN Trunks
- Understanding Private VLAN’s
- Configure Private VLAN Trunks & Private VLAN’s
- Resource pools
- Configuring CPU & Memory resources
- Understanding resource pools
- Configuring resource pools
- Understand VMware clusters
- Understand DRS Clusters
- Configure & Test DRS Cluster
- Understand HA Clusters
- Configure & Test HA Clusters
- Fault Tolerance
- Understanding Fault Tolerance
- Understanding Enhanced Vmotion
- Configuring Fault tolerance
- Testing Fault tolerance
- VDR Backup
- Understanding VDR
- Installing and configuring VDR
- Scheduling Backup jobs
- Restoring VM’s
- Testing Backup jobs
- VMware Converter
- Converting Physical to virtual machine (p2v)
- Converting virtual to virtual (v2v)
- Understanding OVF Format
- Vmware Logs & Services
- Checking vmware ESX Logs
- Checking Vcenter server logs
- Verify ESX, VC Services
- Troubleshooting VM issues
- Vmware Update Manager
- Installing update manager
- Configuring Update Manager
- Deploy patches to ESX Servers
- vSphere Command line interface
- Managing ESXi
- Managing VM’s
- Managing storage and network
- Troubleshooting ESXi using shell commands