VMware Infrastructure 3: What's new

Course overview

Prerequisites

• Hands-on experience with configuring and administering ESX Server and VirtualCenter
• Completion of "Virtual Infrastructure with ESX Server 2 and VirtualCenter 1" training is highly recommended

Audience

• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for ESX Server and/or VirtualCenter

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Understand the upgrade process from ESX server 2.x and VirtualCenter 1.x
• Leverage High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
• Develop storage plans, including (iSCSI) support

Benefits to you

• Upgrade ESX Server, VirtualCenter and VMs VMFS / NFS datastores and FC / iSCSI / NAS storage
• Virtual switches and network connections
• VM creation, deployment and management
• Resource Pools
• Data protection strategies

Course outline

• Upgrade VirtualCenter 1.x components to version 2.0
• Upgrade ESX Server 2.5.x software and VMFS 2 file systems to ESX Server 3.0 and VMFS 3
• Upgrade VMs' virtual hardware and VMware tools from version 2 to version 3

Module 2: Networking

• Create virtual switches
• Define connection types and port policies

Module 3: Storage

• Add Fibre Channel SAN storage
• Create a VMFS datastore
• Create an NFS datastore
• Identify iSCSI storage components

Module 4: Virtual Machine Creation and Management

• Deploy VMs from templates
• Manage VMs using Web Access
• Migrate VMs using VMotion

Module 5: Resource Pools

• Use resource pools on a standalone host
• Create a DRS cluster
• Use resource pools in a DRS cluster

Module 6: Data Protection

• VM backup strategies, such as VCB
• High availability strategies: HA clusters