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