4 days Module
| Virtualization Basics | Overview of Virtualization |
| Evolution of Virtualization and Vmware history | |
| Hypervisor basics | |
| Types of Virtualization | |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtualization | |
| Hyperthreading and Memory virtualization overview | |
| Vmware products overview | |
| Installation and configuration of Vmware ESXi | What is ESXi ? |
| Interactive installation of ESXi | |
| Licensing an ESXi host | |
| Configure NTP, DNS and routing in an ESXi host | |
| Overview of Virtual Machine and Virtual Datacenter | |
| Tools used to connect ESXi and vpshere console connectivity | |
| Vpshere tool | Use of vpshere tools |
| Install vpshere tool and explore the features | |
| Vcenter server | Difference of Vcenter server editions |
| Deploy Vcenter server | |
| Size the vcenter server database | |
| Connect to the vcenter using vpshere and web console | |
| vSphere Networking | Identify vnetwork standard switch capabilities |
| Create/Delete standard switch | |
| Standard switch Vs Distributed switch | |
| Configure vmNiCs | |
| Configure vmkernel ports and port groups | |
| Configure VLAN settings | |
| Configure traffic shaping policies | |
| Loadbalancing and failover policies | |
| Vsphere Storage | Datastore in Vmware |
| Virtual storage file system VMFS3, VMFS5 etc.. | |
| Virtual disk formats and uses .vmdk, vmsn etc… | |
| Virtual disk thin and thick provisioning | |
| Storage adapters and devices | |
| Scan and Rescan storage | |
| Zoning and LUN masking practices | |
| Use case for FCoE and iSCSI | |
| Configure iSCSI initiator | |
| Zoning and LUN masking practices | |
| Virtual Machine Management | Virtual Machine Hardware version |
| Creation of Virtual machine | |
| Different ways of deploying virtual machines | |
| Configure guest OS into a virtual machines | |
| Configure vmware tools | |
| Configuring virtual disk types | |
| Explore Virtual disk formats and uses .vmdk, vmsn etc… | |
| Modify the CPU, memory settings for a virtual machine | |
| Templates and clones | |
| Deploy virtual machines from a template | |
| Snapshots and snapshot management | |
| Consolidation of snapshots | |
| Vsphere High Availability | Vsphere High Availability features |
| Vsphere HA Failure scenarios | |
| Vsphere HA architecture and cluster creation | |
| Vsphere DRS features | |
| Migration: Vmotion and types of vmotion | |
| Vsphere Fault tolerance | |
| Vpshere Replication and its related concepts | |
| Access control and Resource monitoring | ESXi host access and authentication |
| Users and Groups | |
| Roles and permissions in Vcenter server | |
| Alarms | |
| Shares, limits and reservations | |
| vApps | |
| Resource pools | |
| Monitoring resource usage |