VMware vSphere Advanced Administration

    

Summary:
The focus on this class is the effective and efficient use of vSphere software to improve deployment, performance, availability, back up and recovery. The class includes some command line and scripting content and labs. Attendees use these tools to automate repetitive tasks. Service availability is covered through in-depth looks at VMware High Availability clusters and VMware Fault Tolerance. Performance is extensively covered, helping you keep your vSphere and VMs running at top speed. VM back up and recovery is addressed using VMware Data Recovery. Learn how these tools can be used for daily VM back up and also for Disaster Recovery and remediation.Windows patching is covered along with ESX Host Profiles. These tools let you set configuration and patch baselines and then help you deploy and update to ensure policy and configuration compliance. Virtualization introduces new security concerns. These are identified and addressed both by creating awareness and by demonstrating how security can be improved and monitored. This class includes lectures/labs that use the VMware Management Assistant command line. Linux command line skills are helpful but not required.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
-System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure-Senior administrators responsible for technical design and implementation of new Virtual Infrastructure projects-Security specialists responsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure-Performance and capacity analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure-Backup Administrators who need to understand the impact of existing and new back up strategies in a virtual environment -Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability-Storage administrators who need to understand how Virtual Infrastructure sees and uses Fibre SAN and iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores-Technical Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.

Topics:

• Virtualization Overview
• VMware vSphere
• ESXi Server Installation
• Virtual Networking
• NFS File Shares
• Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
• vCenter and vCenter Linked Mode
• VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones
• Fibre and iSCSI Storage and VMware File Systems
• VMware High Availability Clusters and VMware FT
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• VM Backup with VMware Data Recovery
• VMware Update Manager
• VMware vApp
• VMware vMA Installation & Use
• Host Profiles

Last Update: May 23, 2012