VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators V4.x

Course overview

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

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

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

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Introduction to VMware Virtualization

  • Discussion of virtualization and vSphere components

Module 3: Virtual Machine Creation and Management

  • Create a virtual machine
  • Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine
  • Install VMware Tools into a Windows guest operating system
  • Enable time synchronization between a virtual machine and the host
  • Create a template
  • Create a template and deploy a virtual machine from it
  • Clone a virtual machine that is powered on
  • Take snapshots of a virtual machine and revert to a snapshot
  • Modify a virtual machine’s disk, memory, and name
  • Manipulate virtual machines in the vCenter Server inventory
  • Delete a virtual machine from disk
  • Add a raw LUN to an existing virtual machine

Module 4: Virtual Machine Resource Monitoring

  • Use vCenter Server to monitor CPU utilization

Module 5: Using Update Manager to Update Virtual Machines

  • List all patches installed on both your virtual machine and template
  • Create a patch baseline
  • Scan for updates
  • Remediate the virtual machine and template

Module 6: Migrating Virtual Machines

  • Verify that your virtual machines’ settings meet vMotion requirements
  • Verify that your ESX host meets vMotion requirements
  • Perform a vMotion migration a virtual machine
  • Perform a Storage vMotion migration a virtual machine

Module 7: Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

  • Identify and correct common configuration issues with virtual machines