VMware Infrastructure 3: Skills for operators

Course overview

This 2-day, hands-on training course explores managing VMware infrastructure 3 operations and configuration, and covers VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter.

Prerequisites

• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Audience

• System administrators, systems engineers, and operators responsible for managing day-to-day operations in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment

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Course objectives

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Install and configure virtual machines
• Deploy virtual machines from templates
• Migrate and manage virtual machines
• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual machine problems

Next steps

• VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5 (HB513S)

Course outline

Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• VMware products: functions and applications

Creation and Management of VMs

• Use of templates
• Manage using VMware virtualCenter and Web Access

Resource Management

• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources
• VMotion migrations

VM Resource Optimization and Monitoring

• Workload assessment

VM Troubleshooting

• Systematic isolation of problems
• Common symptoms faults, fixes