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VMware vSphere 5 Training - Course Outline - Getting Started with VMware vSphere 5 Training Course
- Introduction to vmware products
- What is esx and esxi servers
- Why virtualization
- What is vmwareVsphere
Lab Setup
- Why do we need a Lab?
- Ways to Build a Virtualization Lab
- Limitations to a Virtual Lab
- Importance of Shared Storage
- Running vSphere in vmwareWorkstation
- vSphere 5 Lab Setups
Course Scenario
- More about the course that we are going to learn
Overview of VMware vSphere 5
- vSphere 5 Overview
- vSphere 5 Components
- Packaging and Versions
- Cloud Computing
Installing VMware ESXi 5
- ESXi Installation Requirements
- What Happened to ESX Server?
- Downloading VMware ESXi 5
- Installing VMware ESXi 5
- ESXi Initial Configuration
- Installing the vSphere Client
Installing vCenter 5
- What is vCenter Server?
- vCenter Server Blueprint
- vCenter Server Physical or Virtual?
- vCenter Server Pre-installation
- vCenter Server Features
- HW and SW Requirements
- Database Requirements
- Port Requirements
- How to EvaluatevCenter 5?
- Installing vCenter 5
Installing vCenter 5 as a Linux Appliance (vCSA)
- What is the vCenter Server Appliance?
- Pros and Cons to Using vCenter as an Appliance
- Deploying the vCenter Server 5 Appliance (vCSA)
Using the vSphere 5 Web Client
- vSphere 5 Web Client Overview
- Installing the Server for the Web Client
- Authorizing the Web Client Server
- Using the vSphere 5 Web Client
What’s New in vSphere 5
- vSphere 5 Platform Enhancements
- vSphere Storage
- vSphere Networking
- vCenter 5.0
- VM Enhancement Capabilities
- Auto Deploy and Image Builder
- Storage DRS
- Profile Driven Storage
- VMFS-5
- VMware View Accelerator
- The New High Availability – HA
- vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5
- vCloud Director 1.5
- vShield 5.0
Navigating vSphere using the vSphere Client
- vSphere Terminology (Lingo)
- Using the vSphere Client
- Performing VM Guest Remote Control
- Navigating the vSphere Client with Hotkeys
- Searching the Virtual Infrastructure
- Sorting and Filtering in the vSphere Client
- Exporting Data
- Running Reports
vCenter 5 – Configuring Your New Virtual Infrastructure
- Planning the Virtual Infrastructure
- Naming Convention
- vSphere Network Virtualization Diagram
- Adding Datacenters and Hosts
- Configuring the ESXi Server Clock and NTP
- Configuring vSphere Licensing
- Reviewing System Logs, vCenter Sessions, and Service Status
- Removing “Getting Started” Tabs
- Monitoring ESXi Host Health Hardware Status
- vCenter Server Settings and Plugins
- Adding Folders
Creating and Modifying Virtual Guest Machines
- Three Ways to Create Virtual Machines
- Downloading VMs from Virtual Appliance Marketplace
- VMware Guest OS Install Guide
- Changing BIOS Settings in a Guest VM
- Creating ISO Images of CD/DVD Install Media
- Creating a Library of ISO Installation Media
- Using the vSphereDatastore Browser
- Using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) with vSphere
- Accessing ESXi Using SSH
- Creating a New Virtual Machine with a Fresh OS Install
- vSphere 5 EFI Firmware Option
- Three Ways to Create Virtual Machines
- Downloading VMs from Virtual Appliance Marketplace
- VMware Guest OS Install Guide
- Changing BIOS Settings in a Guest VM
- Creating ISO Images of CD/DVD Install Media
- Creating a Library of ISO Installation Media
- Using the vSphereDatastore Browser
- Using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) with vSphere
- Accessing ESXi Using SSH
- Creating a New Virtual Machine with a Fresh OS Install
- vSphere 5 EFI Firmware Option
Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
Why You Need VMware Tools
- Installing VMware Tools in Windows
- Installing VMware Tools in Linux
- Searching and Sorting to Check VMware Status
- Updating VMware Tools
- Performing VMware Tools Installation
- Configuring VMware Tools with VMware Toolbox
Understanding and Using Tasks, Events, and Alarms
- Understanding Tasks and Events
- Configuring SNMP and SMTP Email in vCenter
- Alerting You with vCenter Alarms
- Viewing, Filtering, and Exporting Tasks and Events
- Adding and Managing Alarms
- Disabling Alarm Actions
- Performing Configuration of SNMP and SMTP
- vCenter Service Status
Virtual Storage 101 and Storage Terminology
- Storage 101 – Virtual Disks and VMFS
- Data Transfer
- Comparing Storage Technologies
- Storage Area Network (SAN) 101
- Fiber Channel SAN Components
- Fiber Channel HBAs
- Fiber Channel Connectivity
- Zoning
- Managing FC Storage
- Addressing FC SAN LUNs
- Understanding iSCSI Storage
- Why You Need a SAN
- Configuring iSCSI Storage
- Configuring NFS Storage
- Properties of Fiber Channel Datastore
- Storage Terms You Must Know
- What is in a Datastore?
- ESXi Server Storage Options
- VMFS Specs and Maximums
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
- vSphere Storage Appliance Overview
- What Makes VSA Unique
- VSA Cluster Design Options
- VSA SAN Maintenance Mode
- VSA Installation Gotchas
Creating a Free iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
- Why Use OpenFiler?
- Downloading OpenFiler
- Installing OpenFiler
- Configuring OpenFiler as an iSCSI SAN
- Connecting vSphere to the OpenFileriSCSI SAN
Administering VMware ESXi Server Security
- Basics of vSphere Security
- Default vSphere Security Roles
- Adding, Modifying, and Removing ESXi Users and Groups
- Using Windows AD Users and Groups to Secure vSphere
- Defining and Applying Roles and Permissions
- vShield Overview
- Securing Guest Virtual Machines
vSphere Virtual Networking
- Virtual Networking
- Network Adapters
- Virtual Standard Switches (vSS)
- vSS Functionality
- Similarities Between pSwitch and vSS
- Differences Between pSwitch and vSwitch
- Types of vSwitches
- Virtual Switch Ports
- What is a VLAN?
- MAC Address Changes
- Forged Transmits
- NIC Teaming
Using the vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (dvswitch)
- vSphere Distributed Switch
- Private VLANS – pVLANs
- pVLANs Secondary Mode Nodes
- Networking Policies
- Configuration Tasks
- Creating a New dvswitch
- Creating a dvPort Group
- Migrating Legacy vSwitches and VM Networks to dvswitch
- Migrating VMKernel Virtual Adapters to dvswitch
- Configuring Private VLANs
Moving Virtual Machines with vMotion
- Why You Need vMotion
- vMotion Requirements
- vMotioning Virtual Machines
- vMotion Configuration
- Performing vMotion
- Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
Moving Virtual Storage with svMotion
- What is svMotion?
- svMotion Requirements
- svMotion and Thin Provisioning
- Using svMotion
- Migrating VMs with Snapshots – New in vSphere 5
Performance Optimization with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- Introduction to Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- DRS Requirements
- Creating a DRS Enabled Cluster
- DRS/HA Cluster Settings
- Understanding Resource Pools
- Creating Resource Pools in Your DRS Cluster
Implementing High Availability with VMware HA (VMHA)
Why Do You Need High Availability (HA)?
VMHA Saving the Day
VMHA Master / Slave
Requirements for VMHA
Best Practices for VMHA
Configuring VMHA
Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
Introduction to VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Requirements of FT
- Constraints of FT
- Testing to See If You Can Use FT with VMware Site Survey
- Enabling VMware FT
- Testing Failover with a Virtual Machine Using FT
Upgrading from VMware vSphere 4 to vSphere 5
- Upgrade Prerequisites
- Upgrade Steps
- Upgrade to vCenter 5
- Update Manager Upgrade
- ESX/ESXi Upgrade
- VM Upgrade
- Upgrading vCenter Server and Client
- Upgrading Update Manager
- Upgrading ESXi
vSphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Options
- Administering vSphere Using the CLI
- Four vSphere CLI Options
- Using ESXi Tech Support Mode
- Using esxcfg and esxcli Commands
- Getting Started with PowerCLI
- Project Onyx
- vCLI Basics
- Installing and Using vMA
vSphere Auto Deploy
- What is Auto Deploy?
- Auto Deploy Components
- Auto Deploy First Boot Process
- Infrastructure Requirements
- Installation and Configuration Tasks
- Lab Environment Setup
- Installing Auto Deploy and TFTP Server
- Adding ESXi Host to vCenter
- Moving Host Profile from Staging to Production Area
- Installing Dump and Syslog Collectors
- Setting Dump Collector
- Setting Up Syslog Server
- Test and Repair Rules Compliance
- Auto Deploy PowerCLI Commands
Storage DRS
- Storage DRS Explained
- Datastore Clusters Explained
- SDRS Initial Placement
- SDRS Load Balancing
- Datastore Maintenance with SDRS
- SDRS Affinity Rules
- Configuring and Using Storage DRS
Policy-driven Storage
- Policy-driven Storage Explained
- Storage Vendor Profiles and VASA
- Configuration of Policy-driven Storage
Understanding the New vSphere 5 vRAM Pooled Pricing
- Why is vSphere 5 vRAM Pooled Pricing So Important?
- 3 Major Changes with vSphere 5 Licensing
- vRAM Pooled Pricing in Action
- vSphere 5 vRAM Entitlements
- Requirements to Access vRAM Pooled Pricing Reports
- vSphere 5 License Validator Script
- Using vSphere License Advisor
- 4 Ways to Reduce Your vRAM Pool Utilization
Network I/O Control (NIOC)
- What is Network I/O Control?
- New in vSphere 5 NIOC
- Configuring Network I/O Control
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- Why You Need Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- How SIOC Works
- SIOC Requirements
- Enabling SIOC in vSphere
- Monitoring SIOC Performance
ESXi Firewall
- ESXi Firewall Defined
- Configuration Files
- Rule Set Add
- Service Behavior
- ESXI Shell Firewall Configuration
VMware Data Recovery (VDR) 2
- Introduction to VMware Data Recovery (VDR) 2
- New VDR Features in vSphere 5
- Limitations of VDR
- Installing VDR
- VDR Initial Configuration
- Installing VDR Client Plug-in
- Backing Up with Data Recovery
- Restoring with Data Recovery