This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware Infrastructure 3, which consists of VMware ESX Server and VMware Virtual Center.

Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional.

Students who complete this course should enroll next in VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze.

Objectives

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functionality in VMware Infrastructure 3 and be able to:

• Install ESX Server
• Configure ESX Server networking and storage
• Install and configure Virtual Center
• Control user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Deploy and manage virtual machines using Virtual Center
• Allocate and monitor virtual machines’ resources
• Ensure high availability of applications

Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course

Who Should Attend

System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or Virtual Center

Module 1: Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components

Module 2: ESX Server Installation

• Set-up of ESX Server

Module 3: Networking

• Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups

Module 4: Storage

• Storage management technologies

Module 5: Virtual Center Installation

• Set-up of Virtual Center components

Module 6: VM Creation and Management

• Use of templates
• Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
• Manage using VMware Virtual Center and Web Access
• Use of Guided Consolidation

Module 7: Virtual Infrastructure Access Control

• Controlling administrator rights

Module 8: Resource Management

• VMotion migrations
• Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources

Module 9: Resource Monitoring

• Workload assessment
• Monitoring using VMware Virtual Center

Module 10: Data and Availability Protection

• Backup strategies
• Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster

Module 11: Planning VI Deployment

• Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment
  

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems