Training

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 5.1 and ESX/ESXi 5.1, as well as how to upgrade to VMware vSphere 5.1.

Target Audience:
System architects, system administrators, IT managers and individuals responsible for implementing and managing VMware Infrastructure architectures

Prerequisites:
Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure, or equivalent experience with Vmware ESX and vCenter Server.

Course Outline[Modules]:
Module 1: Introducing vSphere 4
Module 2: Infrastructure Administration
Module 3: Networking
Module 4: Storage
Module 5: Resource Management
Module 6: Business Continuity

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This lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware® ESX/ESXi hosts and VMware vCenter Server systems. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional.

Target Audience:
System administrators, systems engineers, and help desk personnel who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform advanced troubleshooting of their vSphere deployments

Prerequisites:
This is an advanced course. Required prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:
Completion of the following three courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Manage Availability
VMware vSphere: Manage Scalability
Completion of VMware vSphere: Fast Track.
Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server

Course Outline[Modules]:
Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: ESXi Command-Line Troubleshooting Methods
Install and use the vMA
Learn common vSphere Command-Line Interface commands and syntax
Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access

Module 3: ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server Log Files
View ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server log files
Configure a centralized ESX/ESXi log host

Module 4: Network Troubleshooting
Identify and configure vNetwork components
Configure and use a network traffic sniffer

Module 5: Management Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot vSphere management components

Module 6: Storage Troubleshooting
View, configure, and diagnose storage access problems
Configure iSCSI authentication and digests

Module 7: vMotion Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot VMotion and Storage VMotion errors

Module 8: VMware Infrastructure Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot DRS Cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits
Troubleshoot HA Cluster errors with slot calculations, admission control, and host monitoring
Review virtual machine power on requirements
Troubleshoot virtual machine power on failures

Module 9: vSphere 4 DRS Cluster Troubleshooting
Complete a final multihour, multiproblem troubleshooting exercise

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This course explores a design methodology, criteria, and approach for designing a VMware vSphere 4 virtual datacenter architecture consisting of VMware® ESX/ESXi 4 and VMware vCenter Server 4. This course, by discussing the benefits and risks of available design alternatives, provides information that supports making sound design decisions. This course also provides an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.

Target Audience:
The course is designed for VMware pre- and post sales technical professionals responsible for designing vSphere architectures.

Prerequisites:
Knowledge of vSphere 4 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration

Course Outline[Modules]:
Module 1: Course Introduction
Provide a general overview of the course

Module 2: Design Process Overview
Discuss the design methodology, criteria, and approach
Introduce an example five-step design process

Module 3: ESX/ESXi Host Design
Identify useful information for making host design decisions
Analyze best practices and host design alternatives

Module 4: vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
Identify useful information for making vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design decisions
Analyze best practices and vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design alternatives

Module 5: vSphere Network Design
Identify useful information for making network design decisions
Analyze best practices and network design alternatives

Module 6: vSphere Storage Design
Identify useful information for making storage design decisions
Analyze best practices and storage design alternatives

Module 7: Virtual Machine Design
Identify useful information for making virtual machine design decisions
Analyze best practices and virtual machine design alternatives

Module 8: Management and Monitoring Design
Identify useful information for making management and monitoring design decisions
Analyze best practices and management and monitoring design alternatives
Design Workshop
Small group case study workshop to practice using the methodology, criteria, and approach required to design a vSphere virtual datacenter

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This training course, for experienced VMware vSphere® personnel, teaches advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1.

This course prepares the studentfor the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP5-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware Certified Professional5exam.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:
Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise.
Manage changes to the vSphere environment.
Optimize the performance of all vSphere components.
Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes.
Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware vSphere® Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere.
Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts.

Note: About one-third of the VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1] course content is repeated in this course. The scalability topics in VMware vSphere: FastTrack [V5.1] are repeated in this course.

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 VMware Management Resources
Configure vMA
Understand the esxcli and vicfg commands
Configure ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
Understand important ESXi and vCenter Server log files

3 Performance in a Virtualized Environment
Understand the vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
Understand software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
Use vSphere performance monitoring tools

4 Network Scalability
Create, configure, and manage vSphere distributed switches
Migrate virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
Understand distributed switch features such as PVLANs, VMware vSphere® Network I/O Control, port mirroring and NetFlow

5 Network Optimization
Understand performance features of network adapters
Understand performance features of vSphere networking
Monitor key network performance metrics
Use vMA to manage virtual network configuration
Troubleshoot common network performance problems

6 Storage Scalability
Configure storage multipathing
Understand vSphere storage APIs for array integration and storage awareness
Explain profile-driven storage
Add a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
Describe VMware vSphere® Storage DRS™ operation
Configure Storage DRS and VMware vSphere® Storage I/O Control

7 Storage Optimization
Diagnose storage access problems
Understand how storage protocols, VMware vSphere® VMFS configuration, load balancing,and queuing affect performance
Monitor key storage performance metrics
Use vMA to manage virtual storage
Troubleshoot common storage performance problems

8 CPU Optimization
Understand CPU scheduler and other features that affect CPU performance
Monitor key CPU performance metrics
Troubleshoot common CPU performance problems

9 Memory Optimization
Understand memory reclamation techniques and overcommitment
Monitor key memory performance metrics
Troubleshoot common memory performance problems

10 Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization
Understand performance guidelines for virtual machines, resource allocation settings, VMware vSphere® Distributed
Resource Scheduler™ clusters, resource pools, and VMware vSphere® High Availability admission control policies
Troubleshoot virtual machine power-on failures
Troubleshoot vSphere cluster problems

11 Host and Management Scalability
Understand how vCenter Linked Mode manages multiple vCenter Server inventories
Explain VMware vSphere® Distributed Power Management™
Use Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
Use VMware vSphere® PowerCLI™ to perform vSphere administrative tasks
Use Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
Use vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

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This hands-on training course is aimed at experienced VMware Infrastructure 3 administrators. The course covers installation, configuration, and operation of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and testing of disaster recovery plans with SRM.

Target Audience:
System administrators and systems integrators experienced with VMware Infrastructure 3 who are responsible for their organization's deployment of SRM

Prerequisites:
* Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure or equivalent experience with VMware Infrastructure 3* Basic knowledge of disaster recovery concepts * Basic knowledge of storage array technology

Course Outline[Modules]:
Module 1: SRM Overview
Module 2: Introduction to Disaster Recovery
Module 3: SRM Planning
Module 4: SRM Installation
Module 5: Array Managers
Module 6: Inventory Mappings
Module 7: Protection Groups
Module 8: Recovery Plans
Module 9: SRM Alarms and Site Status
Module 10: Troubleshooting
Module 11: Failover Testing and Failover
Module 12: Failback

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This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® Horizon View™ suite of products: VMware® View Manager™, VMware® View Composer™, and VMware® ThinApp®. This course is based on the Horizon View 5.2 and ThinApp 4.7 releases.

Before attending this course, you must be able to perform the following tasks:
Create a template in VMware® vCenter Server™ and deploy a virtual machine from the template.
Modify a template customization file.
Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system.
Configure Active Directory services.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should understand the features and operation of Horizon View and be able to do the following:
Install and configure Horizon View components.
Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools.
Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops.
Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode.
Configure user profiles with View Persona Management.
Configure secure access to desktops through a public network.
Use ThinApp to package applications.
Entitle applications by using Horizon View.

Course Modules
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2 Introduction to VMware Horizon View
Introduce View features and components

3 View Connection Server
Install and configure View Connection Server

4 VMware Horizon View Desktops
Introduce View Agent
Describe PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection

5 VMware View Client Options
Introduce VMware® View™ Client
Introduce VMware® View™ Client with Local Mode
Describe HTML clients, thin clients, and zero clients
Introduce Virtual Printing with View Client

6 View Administrator
Configure the Horizon View environment
Manage users, sessions, and policies
Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
Explain role-based delegated administration
Monitor the Horizon View environment

7 Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
Introduce View Composer operations
Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
Manage linked-clone desktops
Manage persistent disks

8 Local-Mode Desktops
Configure local-mode desktops
Describe View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
Describe local-mode operations

9 Managing VMware Horizon View Security
Describe network configuration and authentication options
Configure the Horizon View security server

10 View Persona Management
Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
Configure a View Persona Management deployment
Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deployment

11 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
Introduce vdmadmin utility
Describe client systems in kiosk mode
Back up the Horizon View databases
Restore the Horizon View databases

12 View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
Describe replica connection servers
Explain performance considerations and load balancing

13 VMware Horizon Application Manager
Ensure that VMware® Horizon Application Manager™ is working
Introduce Application Manager components
Describe single sign-on from Horizon View to Horizon View desktops
Enable browser access to Horizon View desktops through Horizon View
Entitle applications by using Horizon View

14 VMware ThinApp
Use ThinApp to capture applications
Deploy and update ThinApp packages
Virtualize Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
Manage ThinApp applications in Horizon View

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This course demonstrates to technical personnel how to deploy VMware® vCloud Director® for a small private cloud environment and manage the ongoing operation of the deployment. The course focuses on the private cloud in an engineering or quality assurance solution. The course covers all of the fundamentals needed to install, configure, and manage any small private cloud with vCloud Director. This course is the prerequisite for other courses that cover more advanced vCloud Director configurations in enterprise deployments.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should understand the features and operation of vCloud Director and be able to do the following:
Deploy vCloud Director.
Manage vCloud Director to satisfy small private cloud business needs.
Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual datacenters.
Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and VMware vSphere® vApps™ (“vApps”) to satisfy business needs.
Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs.
Configure networking for organizations and vApps.
Interface vCloud Director to Microsoft Active Directory servers.
Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters and vCloud Director.

Course Modules
1. Course Introduction
Review course goals
Review course objectives
Review the course outline
Recognize vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements

2. VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components
Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions Examine integration with other VMware products such as VMware® vCenter™ Chargeback™ and VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™
Determine the licensing needs

3. VMware vCloud Networking
Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
Discuss the organization and VMware vSphere® vApp™network traffic choices
Describe the function of network pools
Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps

4. VMware vCloud Providers
Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
Configure and manage storage for providers
Examine provider space allocation to an organization
Recognize VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® issues
Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines

5. VMware vCloud Director Organizations
Create and manage organizations
Recognize resource allocations for an organization
Create and manage catalogs

6. Basic Security
Describe role-based access
Create custom security roles
Describe and configure LDAP integration with Microsoft Active Directory
Describe single sign-on

7. Managing Cloud Resources
Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters

8. Managing VMware vSphere Resources
Manage VMware® vCenter Server™ instances
Manage VMware® ESXi™ hosts
Manage vSphere datastores
Manage stranded items
Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level

9. Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells

10. Organization Users
Describe the catalog tasks available to organization users of various roles
Describe the vApp tasks available to organization users of various roles

11. VMware vCloud Director Installation
Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
Install vCloud Director

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