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Training: Course Outline

VMWare ESX Server 3.5 / VC 2.5

This course covers content from four courses that VMware offers. It’s all here and combined into one class that covers installing, supporting, and troubleshooting a VMware Enterprise Environment. This customized courseware covers content from VMware's courses:

  • VMware I3 - What's New
  • VMware I3 - Install and Configure
  • VMware I3 - Deploy, Secure, and Analyze
  • VMware I3 - P2V Assistant (converter)
  • VMware I3 – Fast Track

We also take a look at 3rd Party tools to help assist in deployment and management of a Virtual Infrastructure. Each student will setup their own ESX Server, License Server, VirtualCenter Server, and use a variety of tools to support the VMware Enterprise. This course provides students the opportunity to build, support, and troubleshoot their own server. Each student has a physical ESX server sitting right next to them in class. No virtual training. In other words students have a real physical server to install and configure.



Here’s what the students have access to:

Each student will setup their own ESX Server, License Server, VirtualCenter Server, and use a variety of tools to support the VMware Enterprise. This course offers students to build, support, and troubleshoot their own server. The ESX server sits in class with the student and is not virtual. In other words students have a real physical server to install and configure. We do not use Citrix to run a class with ESX. This is mobile training and we can run it anywhere.


Audience

System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter.


Prerequisites
  • System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems


Course Contents
  • Module 1: What's New - an in-depth look at Infrastructure 3.5
  • Module 2: Introduction to a Virtualized Environment - Terms and concepts to support Virtualization
  • Module 3: Installing ESX server 3.5
  • Module 4: Configuration of Virtual Machines, templates, and clones
  • Module 5: Configuration of Virtual Networking and supporting VMotion
  • Module 6: P2V , V2V, V2P, and P2P Methods and Techniques
  • Module 7: Server Consolidation Procedures and reasoning
  • Module 8: Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware, Platespin, Vizioncore, Veeam and more
  • Module 9: VirtualCenter install, configure, and support. Vmotion, Update Manager, Power Management, Guided Consolidation, Clustering –DRS/HA… more
  • Module 10: Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
  • Module 11: Backing up the ESX Environment - Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB
  • Module 12: The ESX Server inside - a look a understanding the underlining OS
  • Module 13: Using the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX Servers - ESX commands
  • Appendix A: Install, Configure, and Troubleshooting ESX Licensing server

Student Responsibilities
In order for a class to be successful, all students should share the same general level of knowledge and experience. If a participant does not demonstrate these, the instructor will take the necessary steps either to prepare the participant or place him/her in a more appropriate course. This policy is intended to maintain the high level of quality control that you have come to expect.
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