Description

This course will teach you how to install, configure and administer the components of a VMware vSphere 5.5 virtual infrastructure. It will show you how to manage the virtual network, storage, resources and deploy virtual machines and also how to secure and backup the infrastructure set up.

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 5.5 software suite (ESXi Server 5.5 and vCenter 5.5).

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Install and configure VMware vSphere 5

5 virtual infrastructure components Configure and manage the virtual network under vSphere Configure, manage and optimize storage under VMware vSphere Improve and optimize resource allocation with VMware Distributed Resource Schedule Implement fault tolerance for virtual machines with Fault Tolerance Set up VM replication with vSphere Replication

Training program

• Virtual infrastructure
  • The main use cases of virtualization.
  • Presentation of VMware vSphere, licenses.
  • Architecture and components of vSphere 5.
  • 5 Practical work Install an ESXi server.
• The VMware vCenter 5.5 server
  • Installing vCenter Server 5.
  • 5 on Windows.
  • Deploying the vCenter 5 Appliance.
  • 5.
  • The SSO server.
  • The Inventory Service server.
  • Practical work Install and configure vCenter 5.
  • 5.
• Managing vNetwork Standard Switches
  • Standard virtual switches.
  • Advanced network configuration (security, traffic management, teaming management).
  • Practical work Configure network elements .
  • » Storage management under vSphere: vStorage Presentation of the different storage protocols.
  • Fiber Channel SAN storage, iSCSI SAN and NFS.
  • Creation and management of Datastores.
  • Practical work Configure storage.
• Creation, deployment and administration of virtual machines (VMs)
  • Creation, deletion and management of VMs, templates.
  • Cold migration of a VM.
  • Management of virtual hardware: Thin Provisionning, VMDirectPath.
  • Snapshots of virtual machines.
  • Backing up VMs with VMware Data Protection.
  • Monitoring and managing resource usage.
  • Practical work Create VMs and templates.
  • Clone a virtual machine (VM).
• Infrastructure access security
  • Configure and administer the firewall in ESXi.
  • Use Lockdown Mode.
  • Integrate ESXi with Active Directory.
  • Securing access: roles and permissions.
  • Installing vCenter Update Manager.
  • Managing updates with VMware Update Manager.
• High availability and continuity of service
  • Managing a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster.
  • Fault tolerance with VMware Fault Tolerance.
  • VMware vSphere Replication.
  • Practical work Implement high availability and a VM backup policy.
• Virtual Datacenter Scalability
  • VMware Storage VMotion.
  • Gestion d'un Cluster Distributed Resource Scheduler.
  • Configuration du Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC).
  • Gestion de Distributed Power Management (DPM).