VMWARE-COURSE CONTENT
Virtualization Foundation:
History of Virtualization
Benefits of Virtualization
Types of Virtualization
Differences between Physical Machines and Virtual Machines
What is a Virtual Machine?
Physical networking versus Virtual Networking
Physical File System versus Virtual Machine File System
Benefits of Virtual Machines
How Virtualization fits into Cloud Computing
VMware vSphere V[5.5]: Install, Configure, Manage:
Introduction to ESXi Hypervisor
Installation of ESXi 5.5
Configuring Management Network
Configuring Trouble Shooting options
Installation of vSphere Client on Windows Desktop
Connecting to ESXi 5.5 through vSphere Client and SSH
Entering into the ESXi Shell
Introduction to Virtual Center Server
Installation of VMware Virtual Center Server
Installation of Virtual Center Appliance
Adding Host into VMware Virtual Center Server
Enable/Disable the Lockdown Mode
Introduction to Single-Sign-on
Verify default plug-ins
Verify the status of default services
Introduction to Virtual Machine
VirtualPath Techno Solutions
Creation of Virtual Machines
Installation of guest operating system
Installation of VMware tools
Types of Virtual Network Adapters
Thick and Thin Provisioning Disks
VMware tools
Introduction to Virtual Networking
What is a Virtual Switch?
Types of Virtual Switches
Types of Virtual Switch Connections
Network Policies
VLANS
Configuring Network Policies
Storage Concepts
Storage Protocols
VMFS-5 Architecture
Fiber Channel SAN components
Fiber Channel Addressing
iSCSI SAN Components
iSCSI SAN Addressing
NFS
FCoE SAN
Creation of VMFS Datastores
Deletion/Unmount VMFS Datastores
VAAI & VASA
Virtual Storage Appliance
VM Management
Clone the VM
Deploy VM from Template
Migration and it’s types(Cold, Suspended, vMotion, Storage
vMotion, Enhanced vMotion)
Snapshot
vAPP
VirtualPath Techno Solutions
High Availability Cluster
Configuring High Availability Cluster
Monitoring HA Cluster
HA Architecture
HA common and additional failure scenarios
Introduction to Fault Tolerance
Configuring Fault Tolerance VM
Check FT in Action
Limitations of FT
Introduction to Distributed Resource Scheduler
Configuring DRS Cluster
Three important features of DRS Cluster
Automation Levels
Affinity and Anti-Affinity rules
Distributed Power management
Storage DRS
Resource Management
CPU and Memory Virtualization basics
Virtual SMP, Hyper Threading, Memory Reclamation
Techniques
Resource Monitoring
Resource Pool creation
Resource Pool attributes
Alarm Configuration
Enable/Disable Firewall
Start/Stop Services
Integrating ESXi Host with Active Directory
Permission?
Roles?
Roles?
Objects?
Users/Groups?
VirtualPath Techno Solutions
Permission Scenarios
Physical to Virtual Conversion using vCenter Converter for
Standalone Host
Introduction to vNetwork Distributed Switch
Configuring vNetwork Distributed Switches
vNetwork Standard Switches versus vNetwork Distributed Switches
What is Port Mirroring?
What is Net Flow?
What is Port Binding?
PVLANS and its types
VMware vSphere Data Protection
What is Backup?
Host Configuration Backup
VM Backup
Restore?
Data De-Duplication
Change Block Tracking
Configuring vSphere Data Protection
Patch Management
Patch Management
Baselines and its types
Configuring Update Manager
Download the Patches
Attach/Creation of Baselines
Scanning
Compliance Check
Stage/Remediate the inventory object
VCOPS