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Title    VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5
 
Summary    - Format: Classroom
- Length: 4 Days
 
Overview    This hands-on training course introduces the most compelling features of VMware Infrastructure 3. This course demonstrates VMware Infrastructure 3 features capable of reducing your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability.
Students who complete this course should enroll next in
VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze.
 
 
Objectives    •  Install ESX Server
•  Configure ESX Server networking and storage
•  Install and configure VirtualCenter
•  Control user access to the VMware infrastructure
•  Deploy and manage virtual machines using VirtualCenter
•  Allocate and monitor virtual machines’ resources
•  Ensure high availability of applications
Troubleshooting guidance, best practices and lab exercises are interspersed throughout the course.
 
Who Should Attend?    System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter
 
Prerequisites    System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems
 
Outline    Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Virtual Infrastructure Overview
•  Discussion of virtualization and virtual infrastructure components
Module 3:  ESX Server Installation
•  Set-up of ESX Server
Module 4: Networking
•  Configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port groups
Module 5: Storage
•  Storage management technologies
Module 6: VirtualCenter Installation
•  Set-up of VirtualCenter components
Module 7: VM Creation and Management
•  Use of templates
•  Use of VMware Converter Enterprise
•  Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access
•  Use of Guided Consolidation
Module 8: Virtual Infrastructure Access Control
•  Controlling administrator rights
Module 9: Resource Management
•  VMotion migrations
•  Set-up of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster
•  Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources
Module 10: Resource Monitoring
•  Workload assessment
•  Monitoring using VMware VirtualCenter
Module 11: Data and Availability Protection
•  Backup strategies
•  Set-up of a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster
Module 12: Planning VI Deployment
•  Guidelines and best practices for a basic deployment