VMware vSphere Ultimate Bootcamp 

Course Introduction and Methodology (Labs)

Virtualization Overview

Planning and Installing ESX 4 (Labs)  

• Planning ESX 4 Server Deployment
• Deployment Guidelines
• ESX 4 Installation (Labs)
• ESX 4 Management
• Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (Labs)
• Troubleshooting ESX 4 Server

Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment  

• Overview of 3rd Party Tools (Labs)
• Windows Commands vs. Linux Commands
• ESX 4 Configuration Commands
• Summary of Remote CLI Commands

Configuring Networking  

• Create & Modify Virtual Networks (Labs)
• Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (Labs)

Configuring Storage  

• Storage Concepts
• iSCSI Storage (GUI & Cmd Line) (Labs)
• Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Cmd Line)
• VMFS Datastores (GUI & Cmd Line) (Labs)
• NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Cmd Line) (Labs)
• Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (Labs)

  VirtualCenter and License Server  

• Licensing
• vCenter Server 4 Installation (Labs)
• vCenter Server 4 Inventory (Labs)
• Managing vCenter Server 4 5. Planning vCenter Server 4 Deployment
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server 4 Deployment
• Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (Labs)

VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots  

• Create a VM (Labs)
• Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones (Labs)
• Virtual Appliances (Labs)
• VMware vCenter Converter 4 (P2V, V2V) (Labs)
• Manage VMs *HOL 6. Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown
• Virtual Machine Snapshots (Labs)
• Web Access (Labs)
• Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Security and Permissions  

• Security Overview (Labs)
• User Access (LabsL)
• ESX AD Integration Labs)
• Managing Firewalls (Labs)
• Advanced Security: SSH & SUDO (Labs)

 Advanced ESX and VirtualCenter Management  

• Configuring Resource Pools (Labs)
• Configuring VMotion (Labs)
• Storage VMotion (Labs)
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (Labs)
• Resource Pools in DRS Clusters (Labs)
• Host Profiles (Labs)
• vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch (Labs)
• Cisco Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch

  Patching and Upgrading ESX  

• Patching ESX Server 4 (Labs)
• Upgrades and Migrations (Labs)
• Update Manager (Labs)
• Upgrading from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x (Labs)

Disaster Recovery and Backup  

• Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• High Availability (HA) (Labs)
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• Microsoft Clustering
• Backup Strategies
• Using VCB Command Line Utilities (Labs)
• VMware Data Recovery (Labs)
• Third Party Backups (Labs)

Server and VM Monitoring  

• Tools for Optimization
• Monitor VM Performance (Labs)
• Configuring Alarms (Labs)
• Collecting Log Files (Labs)

Installing and Configuring ESXi (Labs)  

• ESXi 4 Server Install (Labs)
• Managing ESXi 4 with VIC
• Managing ESXI 4 through VirtualCenter