VMware vSphere with Operations Management: Fast Track [V5.1]

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Duration: 5 Days

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5 and effectively using VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™. This course combines the content of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage with vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict.

You will explore installing, configuring, and managing vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™, and you will gain skills using vCenter Operations Manager as a forensic and predictive tool.

This course is based on ESXi 5.1, vCenter Server 5.1 and vCenter Operations Manager 5.x.

What You Will Learn

 

  • vSphere 5.1 functions and features
  • Install and configure ESXi
  • Install and configure vCenter Server components
  • Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
  • Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
  • Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
  • Use vCenter Server to monitor resource use
  • Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
  • Use VMware vSphere Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
  • Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
  • Major and minor badges and their underlying metrics
  • Use the badges to find the root causes of common operational problems in a vSphere environment
  • Perform capacity management and what-if analyses
  • Use the Operations tab, the Planning tab, the Alerts tab, the Analysis tab, and the Reports tab
  • Navigate the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 user interface
  • Use heat maps and create a custom heat map
  • Use smart alerts to detect system problems
  • Use case for the new policy structure in vCenter Operations Manager and how it can be used to define configuration settings for objects in a vSphere environment
  • Work with groups to classify virtual objects in logical and business-related structures and how to apply them to policies
  • Define new use cases based on the optimized integration with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite™ products like VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™, VMware vFabric™ Hyperic®, VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator™, and other adapters

Audience

 

  • System administrators
  • Systems engineers
  • Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Prerequistes

 

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Course Outline

 

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage Modules

1. Data Protection

  • Strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
  • Solutions for backing up virtual machines efficiently

2. Introduction to VMware Virtualization

  • Virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
  • Concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
  • Where vSphere fits into the cloud architecture
  • Install and use vSphere user interfaces

3. Access and Authentication Control

  • Control user access through roles and permissions
  • Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
  • Configure ESXi lockdown mode
  • Integrate ESXi with Active Directory
  • VMware vShield Endpoint™ integration in vSphere

4. Creating Virtual Machines

  • Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
  • Deploy a single virtual machine

5. Resource Management and Monitoring

  • Virtual CPU and memory concepts
  • Methods for optimizing CPU and memory use
  • Configure and manage resource pools
  • Monitor resource use using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

6. VMware vCenter Server

  • vCenter Server architecture
  • VMware vCenter Server Appliance™
  • Configure and manage vCenter Server Appliance
  • Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

7. High Availability and Fault Tolerance

  • New VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) architecture
  • Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
  • VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
  • VMware vSphere Replication

8. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

  • Create and manage a standard virtual switch
  • Modify standard virtual switch properties
  • Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

9. Scalability

  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ cluster
  • Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
  • Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together

10. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

  • Storage protocols and device names
  • Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
  • Create and manage vSphere datastores
  • Deploy and manage VMware vSphere Storage Appliance

11. Patch Management

  • Use Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
  • Install Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
  • Create patch baselines
  • Scan and remediate hosts

12. Virtual Machine Management

  • Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
  • Modify and manage virtual machines
  • Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
  • Perform VMware vSphere vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
  • Create a vApp

13. Installing VMware Components

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

vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict

1. Working with Capacity Planning and Reports

  • Schedule, use, and export predefined capacity management reports
  • Perform what-if analyses

2. Introduction to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

  • Role of operations management in the cloud era
  • vCenter Operations Management Suite and its packaging

3. Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Operations Manager

  • Meet preinstallation requirements
  • Install vCenter Operations Manager
  • Configure vCenter Operations Manager to gather data from its environment

4. Architecture and Concepts

  • Data collection methodology of the vCenter Operations Manager architecture
  • How vCenter Operations Manager collects data
  • Main components of the dashboard view
  • Navigate the objects tree and understand the badge pane

5. VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Update

  • VMware management suite solution and products
  • Key components and capabilities of vCenter Operations Management Suite
  • Main features available in each of the vCenter Operations Management Suite products and editions

6. Working with Dashboards and Badges

  • Functions of major and minor badges
  • Use the Health major badge
  • Use the Risk major badge
  • Use the Efficiency major badge
  • Use the Operations tab to navigate to details

7. VMware vCenter Operations Manager v5.6 Changes

  • Configuration of policies and groups
  • Basic use cases and benefits from using policies and groups
  • Make changes to the vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 configurations
  • Changes to badges, metrics, and reports in version 5.6 of vCenter Operations Manager

8. Analyzing with Heat Maps

  • Work with predefined and custom heat maps through the Analysis tab

9. Integration with Other VMware Products

  • Use cases for the integration of other vCenter Operations Management Suite products
  • Integration with vCenter Operations Manager for group management
  • New dashboard badges in vCenter Operations Manager

10. Working with Smart Alerts

  • Configure and use smart alerts
  • Set up e-mail notifications

Course Labs