VMware vSphere 5.1 Ultimate Bootcamp

• Course Overview

VMware vSphere® 5.1 is the industry leading virtualization technology platform accelerating the shift to cloud computing for existing datacenters. The Ultimate Bootcamp® that has become known to be the most comprehensive VMware training course in the industry.

This course combines several popular VMware vSphere classes into one 5 day accelerated-learning bootcamp with content and concepts from multiple VMware® classes: Install, Configure, Manage; What’s New!; Manage for Performance; and Troubleshooting!

• Audience Profile

System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESXi 5.1 Server and/or vCenter 5.1.

• At Course Completion

The primary objective of the vSphere® 5.1 Ultimate Bootcamp® is to train the ultimate virtualization expert through intense immersion in a five day accelerated training bootcamp.

Upon the completion of this course, students will learn:

• About all of the new and exciting features of VMware vSphere® 5.1
• Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
• How to install, configure, and support ESXi Server 5.1 and vCenter 5.1
• How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing
• P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
• Server Consolidation procedures and reasoning
• Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware®, PlateSpin®, Vizioncore, Veeam, and more
• VMotion, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgmt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering – DRS/HA, etc.
• Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
• How to perform backups in the ESXi environment's Service Console and Virtual Machines VCB and Data Recovery
• How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESXi Servers - ESXi commands
• Configure and optimize storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning

• Prerequisites

This Ultimate Bootcamp is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience. Individuals should have experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux Servers.

• Related Certification

Certified Virtualization Expert® 5.1

• Course Outline

Chapter 1: Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)

Chapter 2: Virtualization Overview and What’s New in vSphere 5.1

Chapter 3: Planning and Installing ESXi 5.1 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)

Lessons

• Planning ESXi 5.1 Server Deployment
• Deployment Guidelines
• ESXi 5.1 Image Builder
• ESXi 5.1 Server Install (HOL)
• Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
• Troubleshooting ESXi 5.1 Server

Chapter 4: Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment

Lessons

• Overview of 3rd Party Tools
• ESXi Management (vSphere Client, NEW V5 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
• Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)

Chapter 5: vCenter Server 5.1 and Licensing

Lessons

• Demystifying vSphere 5 Licensing
• vCenter Server 5 Installation (HOL)
• vCenter Server 5.1 Virtual Appliance
• vCenter Server 5.1 Inventory (HOL)
• Managing vCenter Server 5.1 (HOL)
• vCenter Solutions Manager
• Planning vCenter Server 5.1 Deployment
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server 5.1 Deployment

Chapter 6: Configuring Networking

Lessons

• Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
• Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
• vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC (HOL)
• Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting (NetFlow, Port Mirror, LLDP, 802.1p Tagging)

Chapter 7: Configuring Storage

Lessons

• Storage Concepts, Storage Awareness & Profile Driven Storage
• iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
• VMFS 5 Datastores and SSD (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
• Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)

Chapter 8: VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots

Lessons

• Create a VM (HOL)
• Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones(HOL)
• Virtual Appliances (HOL)
• VMware vCenter Standalone Converter (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
• Manage VMs (HOL)
• Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown (HOL)
• Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
• vSphere 5 Web Client (HOL)
• Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Chapter 9: Security and Permissions

Lessons

• Controlling User Access and passwords (HOL)
• ESXi 5 AD Integration (HOL)
• Managing ESXi 5 Firewall (GUI & Command Line)(HOL)
• VMSafe and vShield Zones

Chapter 10: Server and VM Monitoring

Lessons

• Configuring Alarms (HOL)
• VM Optimization for vSphere 5 Licensing (HOL)
• Optimizing Resources
• Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
• Using NetFlow Tool (HOL)
• ESXi, vCenter Logs and syslog (HOL)

Chapter 11: Advanced ESXi and vCenter Management

Lessons

• Storage Views & Topology Maps
• Storage VMotion and SvMotion Snapshots (HOL)
• Configuring VMotion (HOL)
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
• Resource Pools and Monitoring (HOL)
• Storage DRS (SDRS) (HOL)
• Host Profiles (HOL)
• VSphere 5.1 Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)
• Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers

Chapter 12: Patching and Upgrading vCenter/ESX/ESXi

Lessons

• Patching ESXi 5 (HOL)
• Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
• Upgrades and Migrations (ESX to ESXi)
• Upgrading from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x

Chapter 13: Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment

Lessons

• Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM5)
• High Availability (HA) & Fault Domain Manager (FDM) (HOL)
• VM Fault Tolerance
• Microsoft Clustering
• Backup Strategies
• VMware Data Recovery (HOL)
• Third Party Backups (HOL)