Lesson 1:
Virtual machine creation
Description:
o Steps for creating a new virtual machine
o Installing the guest operating system
o Installing VMware Tools
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Lesson 2:
Resource utilization monitoring
Description:
o Performance Charts
o Demonstrate similar graphs in ESX Charter
o custom alarms
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Lesson 3:
Rapid virtual server provisioning
Description:
o Cloning virtual machines using VirtualCenter
o Deploying from templates with VirtualCenter
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Lesson 4:
Migration of virtual machines
Description:
o Cold migrations - include explanation of MAC address change and other changes that may affect the application and its licensing
o Hot migrations: VMotion
o Importing and exporting virtual machines with VMware Converter
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Lesson 5:
• Installation steps for VMware ESX Server
Description:
o Disk partitioning
o Service Console configuration
o Licensing
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Lesson 6:
• Virtual networking
Description:
o Key concepts
* Virtual Ethernet adapaters
* Virtual switches
* Virtual ports and port groups
o Commands:
* esxcfg-nics
* esxcfg-vswitch
* lspci
o Typical policies
* VLans
* Security
* Load balancing and failover
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Lesson 7:
• Virtual storage
Description:
o Disk storage configuration
* Fiber Channel Storage Area Network (SAN)
* iSCSI SAN
* Network Attached Storage (NAS)
o Datastore configuration
* VMware File System version 3 (VMFS3)
* Network File System (NFS)
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Lesson 8:
• VMware VirtualCenter
Description:
o Installation of VirtualCenter Server and components
o Managing ESX Servers with VirtualCenter
• Importing and exporting virtual machines with VMware Converter - include explanation of MAC address changes and other hardware changes that may affect the application licenses
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Lesson 9:
• Using vmkfs tools to import and export virtual disks manually
Description:
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Lesson 10:
• Resource sharing and configuration
Description:
o VM settings: shares, reservations, limits
o Host based resource pools
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Lesson 11:
• Resource utilization monitoring
Description:
o esxtop
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Lesson 12:
• Vmware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Description:
o Configuration of DRS clusters
o Cluster based resource pool
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Lesson 13:
• Security of virtual servers
Description:
o Implementing virtual machine security using VirtualCenter
o Implementing virtual machine security using ESX Server
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Lesson 14:
• Backup and recovery for virtual servers
Description:
o VMware Consolidated Backup
o Backups with Vizioncore vRanger
o Patching ESX Server
o Update Manager: VI 3.5
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Lesson 15:
• Strategies for Remote Access to VI 3 infrastructure - including addressing opening ports via firewall to access Service Console
Description:
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Lesson 16:
• Best Practices
Description:
o ESX Server Configuration
o VC Server Configuration
o Virtual machine configuration
o VMotion configuration - including addressing VMotion CPU compatibilities
o VMware DRS configuration
o VMware HA configuration
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