VMware vSphere

Virtualization has become ubiquitous in data centers. More and more organizations are moving towards virtualization because of the enormous cost savings as well as the scalability that it offers.This course will cover all the aspects required to design, configure and manage a Virtual Data Center environment using VMware vSphere Virtualization Technology. The course will provide hands-on Virtual Data Center Infrastructure administration, as no Data Center/Cloud is complete without virtualization today.

The training will be given by Senior System/Network Engineers with several years of field experience in Virtualization.

Yoinsights is the ultimate VMware training institute. We can proudly say that students trained at our institute have very good command on the subject than those trained elsewhere. Course material covering all the topics is given to help the students learn better. Daily assignments and regular assessments are conducted to help groom their technical skills. Good learning environment, regular assistance and well cataloged training procedures are the key features of Yoinsights VMware Training in Surat, India..

COURSE CONTENT

Introduction

1. what is Virtualization?
2. why Virtualization?
3. Benefits of Virtualization
4. Virtualization overview in Industry
5. VMware History
6. Types of Virtualization
7. Other Virtualization Product in Market
8. Role of VMware in Cloud Computing
9. Understanding Datacenter Environment
10. Virtualization in present and future Datacenters
11. Understanding the Role of VMware Administrator

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0

1. ESX/ESXi – Virtualization Platform
2. ESXi Installable, Embedded
3. ESXi Architecture
4. Installation of Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 & ESXi 6.0
5. configure Management Network
6. Configure DNS and Routing
7. ESXi as an NTP Client
8. Diff Methods of accessing ESXi Server
9. Enabling & Disabling of Remote access
10. Explore various Log files

VMware vCenter Server

1. Understanding Architecture of vCentral Server
2. ESXi and vCenter Communication
3. vCenter Server Components
4. vCenter Single Sign On
5. Installing vCenter Server
6. Configure and manage vCenter Server Appliance
7. Managing vCenter Server Inventory
8. Navigating vSphere Client
9. Adding ESXi Hosts to vCenter Server
10. vCenter Server License, Views, Events, System logs

Virtual Machine Creation & Management

1. Understanding virtual machines
2. Understanding Diff VM files
3. Virtual Machine Hardware
4. Create a Virtual Machine
5. Deploying guest operating system into VM
6. Understanding VMware tools
7. Deploying VMware tools
8. Cloning of VM’s
9. Creating Templates
10. Deploying VM’s from templates
11. Modifying Virtual Machine Settings
12. Creating an RDM
13. Virtual Machine Snapshots
14. Creating a vApp
15. Removing a Virtual Machine
16. Deploying Virtual Appliance
17. Deploying OVF Templates
18. Configuring VM’s to auto start & auto shutdown

Networking In VMware vSphere

1. vNetwork Standard Switches
2. Understanding vSwitch & port group
3. Configuring virtual Switch & port groups
4. Understanding VM kernel Adaptor
5. Understanding Security policies
6. Configuring Traffic shaped policies
7. NIC Teaming policy
8. Distributed switch in details

Storage in VMware vSphere

1. Storage Concepts
2. Storage Overview
3. DAS, FC SAN, iSCSI, FCoE, NAS
4. Types of Datastore, VMFS, NFS
5. Configuring ISCSI Storage
6. Configuring NAS/NSF Storage
7. FC SAN Storage, FCoE
8. Multipathing With iSCSI, NAS, FC SAN
9. Creating a VMFS Datastore
10. Increase the Size of VMFS Datastore
11. Deleting/Unmounting a VMFS Datastore
12. VMware vSphere Storage VSAN
13. VSAN Benefits, Features, Architecture

Migration of VM

1. Understanding types of migration
2. Importance of VMware vSphere vMotion
3. vMotion Requirements
4. Perform vMotion migration
5. Perform Storage vMotion migration
6. Perform Enhanced vMotion migration

Resource Management

1. Basics of CPU and Memory Virtualization
2. Multicore Processors, Hyper threading and Load balancing
3. Overview of Memory Virtualization
4. Memory Reclamation Techniques – Transparent Page sharing (TPS)
5. what & why need resource pool?
6. creation of resource pool, its attributes and Reservations
7. Virtual Machine CPU, Memory and I/O Settings
8. Admission control for CPU and Memory
9. Resource Control and Management
10. Performance Tuning Methods

Access and authentication Control

1. Configuring ESXi Host Access and Authentication
2. ESXi Firewall, Enabling & Disabling Lockdown Mode
3. Integrating ESXi with AD
4. Configuring Roles and Permissions
5. Create a custom role in vCenter server
6. Assign permissions on vCenter
7. Verify permission

Schedule Tasks, Event & Alarms

1. Understand Task, Events & Alarms
2. Configuring SMTP
3. Configuring Alarms

High Availability (HA)

1. vSphere High Availability
2. Configuring vSphere HA
3. vSphere HA architecture
4. Adding ESXi Host to a Cluster
5. Test vSphere HA Functionality

Fault Tolerance

1. Understanding Fault Tolerance
2. Configuring Fault Tolerance
3. Testing Fault Tolerance

Distributed Resource Scheduler

1. what is DRS? & Pre-requisites for DRS?
2. How to configure it?
3. what is EVC and its requirements?
4. configuration of Affinity Rules

VMware vCenter Standalone Converter

1. Converting physical to virtual machine (p2v)
2. Converting virtual to virtual (v2v)

Update Manager Administration (Patch Management)

1. concepts, capabilities, components
2. Install and configure update manager Data Protection
3. what is Data Protection? and why we need it ?
4. Backup of Host configuration Data and Entire Virtual Machine

VMware vSphere Basic Troubleshooting

1. Basic commands in ESXI management
2. Monitoring CPU performance
3. Networking related issues
4. Storage related issues
5. vMotion related issues
6. scenarios of HA & FT issues
7. DRS related issues

Up-gradation of Server

1. Requirements for migration
2. Up gradation of ESXi server 4.x, 5.x, 6.x