VMware Training

VMware Training Overview

VMware is known as the world’s leading and popular server virtualization platform. The VMware training from NareshIT helps participants extendability to virtualize scale-up and scale-out application redefines availability, simplifies the virtual data center and is the ideal foundation for any cloud environment. VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization software provider for X86 or IBM compatible computers and servers. It hosts other operating systems in such a way that each OS acts as if it were installed on as an own contained system with itself hardware resources and set of programs. Virtualization is at the heart of VMware’s one cloud, any device, any application architecture. It’s the most used efficient and agile solution for reducing IT expenses.

Objectives of the Course

• Introduction to VMware Virtualization
• Introduce virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Familiarity with Linux/Windows administration
• Understanding of basic vSphere architectures

Pre-requisites of the Course

• Enough knowledge of Linux/Windows administration
• Understanding of basic vSphere architectures

Who should do the course

• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• Operators of ESXi and vCenter Server
• System architects
• Security specialists
• Operators of ESXi and vCenter Server
• Performance and capacity analysts
• Storage administrators
• Freshers seeking careers in this field

VMware Course Content

VMware Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Virtualized Data Center

• Introduce components of the virtualized data center
• Host, VM, Virtual Center, VMNic, VMware Update Manager
• Install and use vSphere Client

Installing VMware Components

• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)

Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

VMware vCenter Server Deployment 5.5

• Installation of Windows 2008 R2 for Virtual Center Server
• Installation of SQL 2014 Data Base
• Creation of Data Base for SSO, Virtual Center server & VMWare Update Manager
• Creation of DSN Links for Virtual Center & Update Manager
• Installation of SSO
• Installation of Inventory services and  Virtual Center Server
• Installation of Web Client and Vsphere Client

VMware Infrastructure up gradation 5.5 to 6.0

• Virtual Center Server 5.5 to 6.0
• ESXi 5.5 to 6.0

Patch Management

• Installation of VMWare update manager
• Configuration of Update manager
• Security patches installation through Update manager
• Create patch baselines
• Scan and remediate hosts

Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere datastores

Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Virtual Hard Disk Types
• Deploy a single virtual machine

Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Requirement of vMotion and storage vMotion

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Introduce the new vSphere High Availability architecture
• Control policy of HA
• Configuration of EVC Mode in HA
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

Scalability

• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) cluster
• Configuration and Management of DPM
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and DRS together

Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access to roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Configure ESXi lockdown mode
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

Troubleshooting

• Basic Commands of ESXi server for troubleshooting
• Log files of ESXi, Virtual Center Server and VMWare update Manager
• VMware core dump collector
• VMware log collector

P2V

• Physical to virtual

Vsphere Infra up gradation 6.0 to 6.5 (VC, VUM, ESXi)

• Virtual Center server 6.0 to 6.5
• VMware update manager 6.0 to 6.5
• ESXi server 6.0 to 6.5
• VMFS up gradation
• Virtual machine hardware version up gradation
• VMware tools up gradation

Virtual Center server on Linux SUSE (VCSA) 6.5

New features of vsphere 6.5