Course Content

1. Introduction to Virtualization & vmware 2. Planning and Installing VMware vSphere 4.0 3. Running VMware ESX 4 Inside VMware Workstation 7 4. configuring VMware vSphere 4.0 5. Installing & Using VMware vCenter Server 4.0 6. Creating & Modifying Virtual Guest Machines 7. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools 8. VMware vSphere - Tasks, Events, Alarms, and Maps 9. VMware vSphere Disk Storage 10. Administering VMware vSphere Server Security 11. VMware vSphere Virtual Networking (vSwtich, VDS) 12. Using Templates, Cloning, and Migrating with VMware using V2V and P2V. 13. VMware Update Manager 14. Configuring vMotion, Storage vMotion , Resource Pools, DRS, & VMHA with VMware vSphere 15. Upgrading VMware vSphere & vCenter Server 4.0 16. Troubleshooting and Patching VMware vSphere 17. Introduction to Third Party Applications for VMware ESX 18. Backing up Virtual Machines / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) 19. Performance Optimization with vmware vSphere

1. Introduction to Virtualization & vmware What is Virtualization? Virtualization Statistics Uses for Server Virtualization What is the VMKernel? Virtualization Products Available VMware vSphere vs. Windows 2008 Server Hyper-V What is the Future of Virtualization? Windows OS Licensing and Virtualization VMware vSphere Virtual Machine Specifications What is the VMTN? Other Virtualization Resources How Can I Test and Demo ESX at Work or Home? How is VMware vSphere Server Supported and Licensed? 2. Planning and Installing VMware vSphere 4.0 Steps to select the right hardware for virtualization vSphere 4.0 Installation Requirements, Recommendations, and Maximums What should or shouldnt be virtualized? How do I consolidate servers? And, importance of SAN storage Licensing options for vSphere 4.0 host based vs server based Partitioning options for vSphere 4.0 How to install VMware vSphere 4.0 3. Running VMware ESX 4 Inside VMware Workstation 7 Why would you want to run VMware ESX Server inside Workstation? PC Requirements & Customizing the VMX file Demonstration of how it works 4. Configuring VMware vSphere 4.0 Learn how to configure and manage VMware vSphere 4.0 using VMware Management Interface and VMware vSphere 4.0 Service Console. VMware vSphere 4.0 Management options Service Console - SSH & telnet Web HTTP & HTTPS VMware vSphere Client Installing the VMware vSphere Client Using the VMware vSphere Client Navigation Remote Control of Virtual Servers Hot Keys

5. Installing & Using VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Learn what VMware vCenter Server 4.0 centralized management can do for you, how to install it, and how to navigate it, step by step Introduction to VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Installing VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Once installed, what does vCenter Server 4.0 look like? Product Description Use Cases Features Architecture VMware vCenter Server 4.0 configuration Minimums / Requirements and Maximums Navigating VMware vCenter Server 4.0 6. Creating & Modifying Virtual Guest Machines VMware Tools are necessary for proper management of guest machines find out how to load them and how they work. Learn how to create VMware Guest virtual machines. Install, configure, import and export, and downloading virtual machines from the Internet. What does a running Virtual Guest machine look like? Virtual Guest - Machine Specifications Changing BIOS settings How to create ISO Images of CD & DVD Installation media How to create a new virtual machine & install a guest OS Adding or removing virtual hardware What is an "appliance? Downloading Virtual Machines from the VMTN Virtual Appliance Marketplace What and where are VMX configuration files? Importing VMs to ESX and Exporting VMs Transferring files to your server with SCP 7. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools About VMware Tools Why you should use VMware Tools Installing & Configuring VMware Tools in Linux & Windows. Configuring VMware Tools 8. VMware vSphere - Tasks, Events, Alarms, and Maps Configure SNMP and SMTP Email for your VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Understanding Tasks & Events in VMware vCenter Server 4.0 &vSphere Configuring Alarms for Virtual Data Centres and Virtual Guests Exploring Maps of your Virtual Infrastructure

9. VMware vSphere Disk Storage VMware storage management can be complex learn all the terminology you need to know in our virtualization storage video. Learn about SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI. Plus, understand what Virtual Machine Snapshots are and how to use them. How does a Datastore help you? VMware ESX Storage Options What is a VMFS Virtual Disk? Advantages of Virtual Disks Storage Terminology Understanding local disk storage Understanding Fibre Channel (FC) SAN Storage Understanding iSCSI SAN Storage Understanding NAS NFS Storage Local vs. iSCSI vs. FC compared Guest OS disk adapter types What are Snapshots and how do you use them? VMware virtual disk types & access modes Pre-allocated/fixed vs. dynamic Independent, persistent, & Nonpersistent mode Using VMware's Virtual disk manager utility - vmkfstools Aligning your VMware ESX partitions Expanding your Guest OS Virtual Disk Configuring your ESX Server Clock, Timezone, and NTP Time Synchronization Configuring ESX Server to work with OpenFiler iSCSI SAN Server 10. Administering VMware vSphere Server Security Concepts of vSphere Security Design Best Practices of vSphere Security How does security work with vSphere? Adding, Modifying, and removing vSphere users and groups Defining and applying roles & permissions Ports used by VMware vSphere & vCenter Server 4.0 Enabling SSH CLI Access to ESX Securing the command line interface Securing Guest Virtual machines 11. VMware vSphere Virtual Networking (vSwtich, VDS) VMware ESX Server Virtual Networking Virtual Networking Overview Virtual Networking Terms - vmnic, vswitch, vswif, & port group Virtual Network Diagrams Explained Virtual Networking Must Knows Virtual Networking Configuration Scenarios Private/Host-only Single NIC - most common

Redundant & Load Balanced DMZ with router / firewall Using VLANs with ESX Configuring Virtual Switches, VDS Adapter teaming, fault tolerance, and load balancing Service Console Command line Networking Tools 12. Using Templates, Cloning, and Migrating with VMware using V2V and P2V. Learn how to clone and migrate virtual machines: V2V and P2V What are templates and how do you use them? What is VM cloning? Why would you clone a VM? Migrating a VM from one vSphere to another Migrating from one Virtualization platform to another (V2V) Migrating from a physical machine to a virtual machine (P2V) VMware Converter 3.0 13. VMware Update Manager New in ESX/VI 3.5 - Update Manager can update ESX hosts and Windows/Linux Guest machines - learn how it used! What is Update Manager? How Can Update Manager Help You? What Can Update Manager Update for You? How Does Update Manager Work? How to Install VMware Update Manager Components of VMware Update Manager Verifying Install of the Update Manager Service Installing the Update Manager Plug-In Configuring and Using Update Manager 14. Configuring vMotion, Storage vMotion , Resource Pools, DRS, & VMHA with VMware vSphere Learn to use vMotion to migrate servers with zero downtime! Plus, discover how to create virtual machines, virtual appliances, resource pools, clusters, and much more. Configuring VMotion Configuring Resource Pools Configuring Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Clusters Configuring VMware High Availability (HA) Clusters One of the most exciting features of VMware ESX 3.5 is Storage VMotion. This allows you to move virtual disks while the server is up and running! What is Storage VMotion (SVMotion)? Storage VMotion - How It Works? How Can Storage VMotion (SVMotion) Help You? What is Required to Use Storage VMotion?

How to Use SVMotion at the Command Line Using RCLI? Installing the SVMotion Plug-In Demo: Moving Live VM Storage Using SVMotion 15. Upgrading VMware vSphere & vCenter Server 4.0 Upgrading VMware vSphere from current Version to Higher Upgrading VMware vCenter Server 4.0 from 4 to Higher Upgrading VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Client to Higher 16. Troubleshooting and Patching VMware vSphere Common VMware vSphere Issues & their resolutions Things to check when troubleshooting vSphere Resources for vSphere Troubleshooting assistance VMware Support script Updating & Patching VMware ESX Server 17. Third Party Applications for VMware ESX Dunes Technologies - VS-O (Virtual Service Orchestrator) Platespin VeeAm PHD Technologies EsXpress Leostream V-Kernel vmGalaxy 18. Backing up Virtual Machines / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Learn the different types of backups available for VMware, as well as third party companies. Backup & Disaster Recovery for Virtual Machines Backing up the VM within the Guest OS (file level) Backing up the VM within the Host OS (image level) VMware Consolidated Backup What is VCB? How does VCB work? VCB Requirements What is the process of using VCB? Installing VCB Using VCB CLI Commands Scenario: Creating VCB Backup Scripts 19. Performance Optimization with vmware vSphere Select The Right Hardware Performance Optimization Recommendations Optimizing Memory Optimizing the CPU

How VMware vSphere Hosts Reclaim Memory Review of VMware ESX Performance Monitoring Tools VMotion Overview vSphere Resource Pools vSphere Clusters Overview.