VMware overview 3.5A course

Course overview

This 1-day hands-on training course introduces the most compelling features of VMware Infrastructure 3. This course demonstrates VMware Infrastructure 3 features capable of reducing your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows® or Linux® operating systems

Audience

The course is designed for technical persons responsible for evaluating VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter; including IT managers, system architects, and system administrators.

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Course objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to have an understanding of VMware Infrastructure 3 core features through introductory lectures and hands-on demonstration labs, including:

• Deploying virtual machines using VMware VirtualCenter
• Performing live migrations of virtual machines
• Configuring VMware ESX Server clusters to automatically balance virtual machine workloads
• Hierarchically allocating CPU and memory resources to specific business functions
• Using VMware VirtualCenter alarms to proactively monitor the virtual datacenter
• Ensuring high availability of applications

Next steps

• VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V 3.5 (HB513S) or
• VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track V3.5 (HF800S)

Course outline

Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• Define virtualization and the VMware Infrastructure
• Discuss server consolidation and virtual machines
• Learn to use the VMware VirtualCenter management interface
• View virtual network and storage components

Create a Virtual Machine

• Create and use templates to deploy virtual machines
• Automate guest operating system customization

CPU and Memory Resource Pools

• Hierarchically allocate CPU and memory resources
• Set VM priorities on CPU and memory resources

Migrate Virtual Machines Using VMotion

• Migrate live virtual machines

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Clusters

• Configure a VMware DRS cluster and resource pools
• Configure VMware DRS cluster automation levels

Monitoring Virtual Machine Performance

• Use VMware VirtualCenter graphs to monitor virtual machine performance
• Understand VMware ESX Server memory management mechanisms

Performance Alarms

• Use VMware VirtualCenter alarms to monitor and proactively respond to VMware ESX Server and virtual machine state changes

VMware High Availability (HA) Clusters

• Configure a VMware HA cluster
• Configure VMware HA cluster options

VMware Infrastructure 3 Product and Feature Overview

• Discuss how different VMware products and features working together should be able to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your datacenter