Description
This course will show you how to install and configure the components of a VMware vSphere 5 virtual infrastructure. You will learn to manage the virtual network, storage, resources, create, deploy and use virtual machines as well as administer, update, secure and safeguard the infrastructure.
Who is this training for ?
For whom ?This training is aimed at system administrators and architects wishing to quickly get started with the VMware vSphere 5 software suite (ESXi Server 5 and vCenter 5).
Prerequisites
Training objectives
Training program
- Overview of virtual infrastructure and VMware vSphere 5
- The disadvantages of a physical machine.
- The advantages of virtualization.
- The main use cases.
- Presentation of VMware vSphere.
- Architecture of VMware vSphere 5.
- Components of VMware vSphere 5.
- License management.
- Installation/configuration de VMware ESXi et de vCenter 5
- VMware EXSi hypervisor specifications.
- Infrastructure sizing recommendations (CPU, memory, network.
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- Installing an ESXi server.
- AutoDeploy and automated deployment.
- Method for booting an ESXi server.
- Configuring an ESXi server.
- Prerequisites for installing vCenter 5.
- The vCenter server: communication between ESXi and vCenter.
- Deployment of the vCenter 5 Appliance.
- Installation of vCenter Server 5 and inventory management.
- Practical work Install and configure an ESXi server.
- Install vCenter 5.
- Infrastructure management: network, storage and access security
- The network under vSphere: vNetwork Standard Switch management.
- Advanced network configuration (security, traffic and teaming management).
- Advanced vSwitch configuration, the Port Group.
- Storage management: vStorage.
- The different storage protocols.
- Fiber Channel SAN, iSCSI SAN, NFS.
- Manage Datastores.
- Deploy and administer the VMware Virtual Storage appliance.
- Security access to the infrastructure.
- Configure and administer the firewall in ESXi.
- Use Lockdown Mode.
- Integrate ESXi with Active Directory.
- Securing access: roles and permissions.
- Practical work Configure network and storage elements.
- Management of Virtual Machines (VM)
- Elements making up a virtual machine (VM).
- Creation of a new VM.
- Creation and management of Templates.
- Cloning virtual machines.
- Virtual hardware management: Thin Provisioning, VMDirectPath.
- Virtual machine snapshots, management interface and Snapshot Manager.
- Cold migration of a VM.
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM).
- Management of virtual machines and Virtual Appliance (vApp).
- Practical work Create VMs and Templates.
- Clone a virtual machine (VM).
- Virtual Datacenter Scalability
- VMware VMotion feature overview.
- VMware Storage VMotion feature overview.
- Managing a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cluster.
- Configuring Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC).
- Managing Distributed Power Management (DPM).
- Operational safety
- High availability and service continuity.
- The architecture and operation of the HA Cluster.
- Management of a VMware High Availability (HA) Cluster.
- The process of protecting a virtual machine (VM).
- The role of the members of the Cluster (the Master Agent, the slave agent).
- The different cases of triggering HA.
- Activation of the vSphere HA functionality.
- VM fault tolerance with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
- The different technologies related to VM backup.
- Presentation of vStorage API.
- Backing up VMs with VMware Data Recovery.
- Resource distribution: DRS and DPM .
- Practical work Implement high availability and a VM backup policy.
- Supplements
- Updating the virtual infrastructure.
- Installing vCenter Update Manager and managing updates.
- Virtualizing a physical machine.
- Installing vCenter Converter.
- VMware vCenter Converter.
