VMware vSphere 4.1
Ultimate Bootcamp

Five x 10-hour days of intensive, hands-on learning with 50+ Labs.

The VMware vSphere™ 4.1 Ultimate Bootcamp provides a comprehensive A-Z training experience starting from the installation of the product through to real-world troubleshooting scenarios. And with the 50+ hands-on Labs throughout the five days, you will develop the skills, knowledge and techniques needed to implement vSphere 4 in your production environment.

Target Audience

This course is designed for System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of VMware® ESX/ESXi virtualization environments.

Pre-requisites

Applicants for this program should have one or more years of server and infrastructure experience AND similar experience with Microsoft and/or Linux servers.

Program Content

Module One: Course Introduction and Methodology

Module Two: Virtualization Overview

Module Three:
Planning & installing ESX/ESXi 4

Planning ESX 4 Server Deployment
Deployment Guidelines
LAB: ESX 4 Installation
LAB: ESXi 4 Server Installation
LAB: Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP
Troubleshooting ESX 4 Server

Module Four:
Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment

Overview of 3rd-party tools
LAB: ESX/ESXi Management (vSphere Client, VCLI,
Putty, PowerCLI, Web)
Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)

Module Five: Configuring Networking

LAB: Create & modify Virtual Networks
LAB: Create & modify Virtual Networks using CLI

Module Six: Configuring Storage

Storage Concepts
LAB: iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line)
Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Command Line)
LAB: VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
LAB: NAS Storage & NFS Datastores
(GUI & Command Line)
LAB: Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

Module Seven: vCenter Server 4 and Licensing

Licensing
LAB: vCenter Server 4 Installation
LAB: vCenter 4 Inventory
LAB: Managing vCenter Server
Planning vCenter Server 4 Deployment
Troubleshooting vCenter Server 4 Deployment

Module Eight:
VM Creation & Configuration & Snapshots

LAB: Create a VM
LAB: Create multiple VMs, Templates & Clones
LAB: Virtual Appliances
LAB: VMware vCenter Converter 4 (P2V, V2V)
LAB: Manage VMs
Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown
LAB: Virtual Machine Snapshots
LAB: Web Access
Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Module Nine: Security & Permissions

LAB: Controlling User Access 7 Passwords
LAB: ESX Ad Integration
LAB: Managing Firewalls
LAB: SSH Access
LAB: Running Elevated Commands
LAB: VMSafe and vShield Zones

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Module Ten: Server & VM Monitoring

Optimizing Resources
LAB: Monitor VM Performance
LAB: Configuring Alarms
LAB: ESX and vCenter Logs

Module Eleven:
Advanced ESX and vCenter Management

Storage Views & Topology Maps
LAB: Storage VMotion
LAB: Configuring VMotion
LAB: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
LAB: Resource Pools& Monitoring
LAB: vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches
LAB: Host Profiles
Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers

Module Twelve:
Patching and Upgrading ESX/ESXi

LAB: Patching ESXServer 4
LAB: Patching with Update Manager
LAB: Upgrades and migrations
LAB: Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x

Module Thirteen:
Disaster Recovery and backup

Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
LAB: High Availability (HA)
VM Fault Tolerance
Microsoft Clustering
Backup Strategies
Using VCB Command Line Utilities
LAB: VMware Data Recovery
LAB: Third Party Backups

Get Certified

On completion of this course, you are eligible to take the Official Certified Virtualization Expert 4.1 Exam. This 2-hour exam certifies you as a subject matter expert in the application of Virtualization technologies.

Pricing

5-days, 8.00am - 6.00pm each day - $4995 per person

Fees are payable in full, prior to the Course commencement.

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