• Virtual Infrastructure
• Deploy ESX Server
• Networking
• Storage
• Install VirtualCenter
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
• VM Access Control
• Resource Management
• Monitor Your Environment
• Data Protection
• Deployment
You will learn to
• Identify the characteristics of the products in the VMware product line and when to use each product
• Install VMware ESX server in different environments (local storage and booting from a SAN etc.)
• Troubleshoot ESX Server problems
• Create and configure a virtual switch
• Modify the virtual switch for advanced switch capabilities including VLAN, NIC team, traffic shaping, and layer 2 security policies
• Connect a VMware ESX server to Fibre Channel SAN storage
• Create and modify VMFS datastores
• Connect a VMware ESX Server to NFS storage and to iSCSI storage
• Deploy a VirtualCenter implementation
• Describe VirtualCenter features
• Deploy a virtual machine
• Understand applications for VMware Converter Enterprise
• Migrate a Virtual Machine using either a standard migration or migration with VMotion
• Utilize Guided Consolidation capabilities
• Create and modify user permissions in VirtualCenter and in ESX server
• Restrict access to virtual machines using Web Access
• Given an ESX server, describe the technologies used for resource management
• Make adjustments to improve performance, given a resource constrained system
• Allocate resources using resource pools, given an ESX environment
• Create and configure DRS clusters, given an ESX server environment
• Monitor performance of a virtual machine including CPU, memory, disk, and network performance
• Develop virtual machine back-up and restore strategies, given a VMware Infrastructure environment
• Describe the basic operation of VMware HA and other supported high availability technologies
• Determine whether VMware ESX Server could be installed, given an environment
• Plan a VirtualCenter implementation, given a set of requirements
• Plan VI storage deployment, given a set of requirements
