VMware vSphere - What's New - LiveOnLine! - LQVMVS
This is a live online course.
This exciting, hands‐on, lab intensive course covers new items
added to VMware's newest version of the infrastructure product
suite, vSphere. Students will have a full day covering the new
features of ESX 4 with vCenter 4. This one day packed course has
students build ESX, build vCenter (looking closely at the new
installs), build VM's and new VM features, as well as learn more
advanced features with clustering and command line options. Our
"What's New vSphere"course is intended for students with
significant production experience in the Infrastructure 3/vSphere
product suite. It is our intention to take your existing knowledge
base and expand upon that.
Classroom Setup
Each student will have an ESX Server and a Windows Server 2003
or XP workstation. Our classroom lab will share a cluster of ESX
Servers, a variety of different Storage solutions (SAN, NAS, ISCSI,
local, etc.) as needed, a vCenter Server, a variety of 3rd party
tools and access to many pre‐configured VM's (Microsoft, Novell,
Red Hat, Ubuntu …etc).
Prerequisites
- ESX Server familiarity
- VirtualCenter/vCenter usage
- VirtualCenter/vCenter administration
- Excellent familiarity with Windows
- Some familiarity with Linux
Major Areas Covered
- ESX Server 4 Resource statistics
- vCenter 4 Storage VMotion
- VM Hardware v7 Fault tolerance - VM shadow cloning
- New licensing mode VMware VSafe
- vSphere Command line interface VMware VShield Zones
- vSphere Host update utility VMware Paravirtualized SCSI
- VMXNET - generation 3 ESX 4 HCL
- vCenter install requirements Service Console Partitioning -
esxconsole.vmdk
- Typical VM Build Custom VM Build
- Distributed Virtual Switch Hot add Hardware
- Host Profiles Resource Views
Course Outline
This course covers items from the following VMware
courses.
1) What's New - an in-depth look at vSphere
- Capability improvements
- Virtual Hardware improvements
- Storage improvements
- Network enhancements
- Simplified management
2) Installation of ESX 4.0
- ESX HCL
- Service Console Partitioning
- ESX install
3) Installing of vCenter 4
- Pre‐installation
- Installation
- Post‐installation
- Explore new interface and options
4) Configuration of Virtual Machines
- Typical VM Build
- Thin provisioning
- Shadow cloning
- Custom VM Build
- V4 VM Hardware
- V7 VM Hardware
- Explore new interface and options