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Course Code:	VM 105
Course Abstract:	This class is a 4-day intense introduction to virtualization using VMware’s immensely popular Virtual Infrastructure™ suite including VMware ESX™ 3.5 and VirtualCenter™ 2.5. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. Up to 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts and skills are reinforced. Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESX servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced. The class then continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, backup and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered. This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers immediate, tangible benefits (e.g.: reduced capital and operational costs, greater consistency, responsiveness, reduced administration, server consolidation, etc.). Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business and/or economic value – not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software. By the end of the class, attendees will have learned the benefits, mechanics and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage, troubleshoot and secure virtual infrastructure. TEK's pricing to the client includes the course material and the remote ESX server kit (1 per participant) to conduct the hands-on labs and installation.
Audience:	This course is designed for individuals who are system architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure, senior administrators responsible for technical design and implementation of new Virtual Infrastructure projects, security specialists responsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure, operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure, and performance and capacity analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure.
Duration:	4 days
Learning Outcomes:	Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: > Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization > Install ESX Server according to best practices > Configure and manage local storage > Create virtual and virtual to physical LAN segments > Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN > Define and use NAS datastores > Install, configure and administer VMware VirtualCenter including the Database Server, License Server, VirtualCenter and the VI Client > Create virtual machines and install operating systems and applications into them > Rapidly deploy virtual machines from golden-master images using templates > Create clones - one-time copies of virtual machine > Perform cold and hot migrations virtual machines > Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups > Understand the benefits and tradeoffs of network, SAN, VMware Consolidated Back Up and third party backup solutions > Create and manage load balanced clusters > Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESX server failures > Monitor and tune both ESX and virtual machine performance > Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization > Troubleshoot common problems
Course Topics:	Chapter 1 - Virtualization Infrastructure Virtualization explained How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments Common pain points of physical deployments How virtualization effectively addresses issues and brings new Chapter 2 - Stand Alone ESX Server Installation Selecting, validating and preparing your server Sizing Service Console and VMkernel resources Storage controllers, disks and partitions Software installation and licensing Installation recommendations and best practices First look at the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client Chapter 3 - Virtual and Physical Networking Virtual Machine, IP Storage and management concepts Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups Sizing Virtual Switches Chapter 4 - NAS Shared Storage Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure Shared Storage options NFS Overview Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares Troubleshooting NFS connections Chapter 5 - Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines VM virtual hardware, options and limits Sizing and creating a new VM Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware Working with a VM’s BIOS VMware remote console applications Installing an OS into a VM Driver installation and customization VM best practices for monitoring and scalability Accessing VMs and servers remotely via the Web Understanding what should and should not be virtualized Chapter 6 - VirtualCenter VirtualCenter architectural and feature overview VirtualCenter components License Server and Licensing Options VirtualCenter Inventory and views Host and Server based licensing models Chapter 7 - VirtualCenter Inventory VirtualCenter's four views into Virtual Infrastructure Role of the datacenter Using folders to impart political, geographic or technical boundaries Importing ESX hosts into VirtualCenter management Troubleshooting VirtualCenter Chapter 8 - VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones Golden Master images Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates Patching, and refreshing Templates Cloning, one time copies of VMs Best practices for cloning and templating Performance considerations Chapter 9 - ESX and VirtualCenter Permission Model VMware Security model Configuring local users and groups Managing local permissions VirtualCenter security model Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups How permissions are applied Chapter 10 - Advanced Virtual Networking Up-linking Virtual and Physical Network segments using NICs NIC teaming for redundancy and Performance Connecting to vLANs Enhanced Network Security Virtual routers and firewalls Chapter 11 - Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage Fibre SAN overview Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs Partitioning and formatting Fibre SAN Storage Multi-pathing in a Fibre SAN environment Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices iSCSI overview Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters Creating virtual iSCSI adapters Connecting to iSCSI storage Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices Chapter 12 - VMware File System (VMFS) VMFS Overview Unique file system properties of VMFS Managing shared Volumes Creating new VMFS partitions Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning Multi-pathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs VMFS performance considerations Chapter 13 - Resource Management and Resource Pools How ESX delivers resources to VMs Shares, Reservations and Limits CPU resource scheduling Memory resource scheduling Disk I/O bandwidth management Network bandwidth management Resource Pools Chapter 14 - VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion Moving Virtual Machines Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores Hot Migrations with VMotion VMotion requirements VMotion dependencies How VMotion works – detailed explanation Troubleshooting VMotion Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations Chapter 15 – Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler Delegated resource management with Resource Pools Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS Cluster configuration and tuning Isolation response and per-VM policy overrides Chapter 16 – Failure Recover with High Availability Clusters Application level clusters such as MSCS VM cluster strategies using MSCS Using VMs as cluster peers with MSCS VMware High Availability clusters
Prerequisites:	Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™ or other platforms. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks are useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, etc. No Linux command line skills are assumed or required.

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