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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1]

Hands-on training with VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1 provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to prepare for VMware certification exams.

Through 22 hands-on labs, you will learn to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere^®, which consists of VMware vSphere ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™. This course is based on ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for the VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DV).

What You'll Learn

• Install and configure ESXi
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi networking and storage
• Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
• Use VMware vSphere Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

Who Needs to Attend

• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• Operators responsible for ESXi and vCenter Server

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Follow-On Courses

• VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V5.x]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]
• VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1]

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
• VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
• VMware Certified Professional - Desktop (VCP-DT)
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD)
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Infrastructure Design (VCAP-CID)

Course Outline

1. VMware Virtualization

• Virtualization, virtual machines, and vSphere components
• Concepts of server, network, and storage virtualization
• Fitting vSphere into the cloud architecture
• Installing and using vSphere user interfaces

2. Creating Virtual Machines

• Virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Deploying a single virtual machine

3. VMware vCenter Server

• vCenter Server architecture
• VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Configuring and managing vCenter Server Appliance
• Managing vCenter Server inventory objects and licenses

4. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Creating and managing a standard virtual switch
• Modifying standard virtual switch properties
• Configuring virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

5. Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Storage protocols and device names
• Configuring ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Creating and managing vSphere datastores
• Deploying and managing VMware vSphere Storage Appliance

6. Virtual Machine Management

• Using templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modifying and managing virtual machines
• Creating and managing virtual machine snapshots
• Performing VMware vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion migrations
• Creating a VMware vSphere vApp

7. Data Protection

• Strategy for backing up ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
• VMware Data Recovery
• Solutions for backing up virtual machines efficiently

8. Access and Authentication Control

• Controlling user access through roles and permissions
• Configuring and managing the ESXi firewall
• Configuring ESXi lockdown mode
• Integrating ESXi with Active Directory
• VMware vShield Zones

9. Resource Management and Monitoring

• Virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage
• Configuring and managing resource pools
• Monitoring resource usage using vCenter Server performance graphs and alarms

10. High Availability(HA) and Fault Tolerance

• New VMware vSphere HA architecture
• Configuring and managing a vSphere HA cluster
• VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

11. Scalability

• Configuring and managing a VMware vSphere Distributed
• Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
• Configuring Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
• Using vSphere HA and DRS together

12. Patch Management

• Using Update Manager to manage ESXi patching
• Installing Update Manager and the Update Manager plug-in
• Creating patch baselines
• Scanning and remediating hosts

13. Installing VMware Components

• ESXi installation
• Boot-from-SAN requirements
• vCenter Server deployment options
• vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Installing vCenter Server (Windows-based)

Labs

Lab 1: Install VMware vSphere Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

• Access your student desktop system
• Install the vSphere Client

Lab 2: Configure VMware ESXi

• Connect to an ESXi host with the vSphere Client
• View the host hardware configuration
• Configure the DNS and routing information for an ESXi host
• Configure an ESXi host as an NTP client
• Configure an ESXi host to use the directory services

Lab 3: Work with Virtual Machines

• Create a virtual machine
• Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine
• Identify a virtual machine's disk format and usage statistics
• Install VMware Tools on a virtual machine installed with a Windows operating system
• Prepare your virtual machine for upcoming labs

Lab 4: Use VMware vCenter Server

• Configure the vCenter Server Appliance (VCVA) for first use
• Install vSphere license keys
• Create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object
• Create vCenter Server inventory folder objects
• Add your ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory
• Use the web console to configure the vCenter Server Appliance to use Directory Services
• Use the vSphere Web Client to log in to the vCenter Server Appliance

Lab 5: Standard Virtual Switches

• View the current standard virtual switch configuration
• Create a standard virtual switch with a virtual machine port group
• Attach your virtual machine to a virtual switch port group

Lab 6: Access iSCSI Storage

• Add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch
• Configure the iSCSI software adapter

Lab 7: Access IP Storage

• Configure access to NFS datastores
• View iSCSI and NFS storage information

Lab 8: Manage VMware vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)

• Review your shared storage configuration
• Change the name of a VMFS datastore
• Create a VMFS datastore
• Expand a VMFS datastore to consume unused space on a LUN
• Remove a VMFS datastore
• Extend a VMFS datastore

Lab 9: Use Templates and Clones

• Copy Sysprep files to the vCenter Server instance
• Create a template
• Create customization specifications
• Deploy a virtual machine from a template
• Clone a virtual machine that is powered on

Lab 10: Modify a Virtual Machine

• Increase the size of a Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) file
• Adjust memory allocation on a virtual machine
• Rename a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
• Add a raw LUN to a virtual machine and verify that the guest operating system can see it
• Expand a thin-provisioned virtual disk

Lab 11: Migrate Virtual Machines

• Migrate virtual machine files with Storage vMotion
• Create a virtual switch and a VMkernel port group for vMotion migration
• Verify that your ESXi host meets vMotion requirements
• Verify that your virtual machines meet vMotion requirements
• Perform a vMotion migration of a virtual machine on a shared datastore
• Perform a vMotion migration to a private datastore

Lab 12: Manage Virtual Machines

• Unregister a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
• Register a virtual machine in the vCenter Server inventory
• Unregister and delete virtual machines from disk
• Take snapshots of a virtual machine
• Revert to a snapshot
• Delete an individual snapshot
• Use the delete all function in Snapshot Manager

Lab 13: Manage vApps

• Create a vApp
• Power on a vApp
• Remove a vApp

Lab 14: Access Control

• Log in directly to the ESXi host
• Grant non-administrator access to a user
• Explore the ESX Admins AD group

Lab 15: User Permissions

• Create a custom role in vCenter Server
• Assign permissions on vCenter Server inventory objects
• Verify permission usability

Lab 16: Resource Pools

• Create CPU contention
• Create a resource pool named Fin-Test
• Create a resource pool named Fin-Prod
• Verify resource pool functionality

Lab 17: Monitor Virtual Machine Performance

• Create CPU activity
• Use vSphere Web Client to monitor CPU utilization
• Undo changes made to your virtual machines

Lab 18: Use Alarms

• Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for a condition
• Create a virtual machine alarm that monitors for an event
• Trigger virtual machine alarms and acknowledge them
• Disable virtual machine alarms

Lab 19: Use vSphere High Availability (HA)

• Create a cluster enabled for vSphere HA
• Add your ESXi host to a cluster
• Test vSphere HA functionality
• Determine vSphere HA cluster resource usage
• Manage vSphere HA slot size
• Configure a vSphere HA cluster with strict admission control

Lab 20: Configure VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

• Prepare the virtual machine
• Enable Fault Tolerance logging
• Activate Fault Tolerance
• Test Fault Tolerance
• Disable Fault Tolerance

Lab 21: vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

• Create load imbalance
• Create a DRS cluster
• Verify proper DRS cluster functionality
• Create, test, and disable an affinity rule
• Create, test, and disable an anti-affinity rule
• Create, test, and disable a virtual machine to host an affinity rule

Lab 22: VMware vSphere Update Manager

• Install Update Manager
• Install the Update Manager plug-in into the vSphere Client
• Modify cluster settings
• Configure Update Manager
• Create a patch baseline
• Attach a baseline and scan for updates
• Stage the patches onto the ESXi hosts
• Remediate the ESXi hosts

VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.1]

Explore the new features and enhancements in VMware vSphere 5.1.

In this hands-on course, you will explore the new features in VMware^® vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware vSphere^® ESXi 5.1. You will cover VMware vSphere 5.1 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.1. You will spend approximately 40% of class completing hands-on labs.

Completion of this course satisfies the training requirement for VCP4s looking to upgrade to the VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DV).

What You'll Learn

• Key enhancements in vSphere 5.1
• Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1
• Use the VMware vSphere Web Client to manage virtual machines
• Key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
• Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS-5 datastore
• Configure policy-driven storage
• Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
• Live migration of a virtual machine without shared storage
• Secure the virtual machines using VMware vShield Endpoint
• Back up and recover a vSphere environment using vSphere Data Protection
• Replicate vSphere for SRM deployments using vSphere Replication
• Use new displays to monitor VMware vSphere high availability cluster activity
• Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Use Auto Deploy to install a stateless or stateful ESXi host
• Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile

Who Needs to Attend

• System administrators
• Systems engineers
• IT managers
• People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments
• People looking to upgrade their certification from VCP4

Prerequisites

Equivalent vSphere 4 administration experience or attendance in one of these VMware vSphere 4 courses:

• Install, Configure, Manage
• Fast Track
• What's New

Follow-On Courses

• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Outline

1. VMware vSphere 5.1

• Enhancements in ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere Update Manager
• Upgrading vSphere Components from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.1
  • vCenter Server, Update Manager, and ESXi

2. Virtual Machine Management

• New Virtual Machine Version 9 Hardware Features
• Virtual Machine Snapshot Consolidation
• vCenter Solutions Manager
• Upgrading a Virtual Machine to Version 9 Hardware
• Installing, Registering, and Using the vSphere Web Client

3. Network Management

• ESXi Firewall
• New Features of vNetwork Distributed Switches
  • NetFlow, Port Mirroring, Link Aggregation (LACP), Link Layer Discover Protocol (LLDP), and SR-IOV
• Enhancements to network I/O control
  • 802.1p Priority Tagging and User-Defined Virtual Machine Resource Pools
• Configuring the ESXi Firewall
• Configuring and Testing Port Mirroring

4. Storage Management

• New Storage Features
  • VMFS-5
  • Fibre Channel over Ethernet Software Adapters
  • Policy-Driven Storage vStorage API for Storage Awareness
  • VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
• Enhanced Features
  • Snapshot Support for VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
  • Solid-State Disk Support
  • New Primitives in the vStorage API for Array Integration
• Upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
• Creating User-Defined Storage Capabilities and Virtual Machine Storage Profiles

5. Scalability and Security

• Scaling Enhancements to Resource Pools and VMware vSphere vMotion
• VMware vSphere Storage DRS Operation
• Creating a Datastore Cluster
• Configuring Storage DRS
• Configuring vShield Endpoint

6. High Availability

• Enhancements to VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility Features
• vMotion a Virtual Machine without Shared Storage
• New Master-Slave Architecture of vSphere HA
• Viewing the New Informational Displays to Monitor vSphere HA Cluster Activity
• Replicating vSphere Using vSphere Replication
• Backing Up and Recovering Virtual Machines Using VMware vSphere Data Protection

7. New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives

• Configuring and Using the Linux-Based VMware vCenter Server Appliance
• Using Image Builder to Create an Installation Image Profile
• Using Auto Deploy to Deploy a Stateless ESXi Host
• Using Auto Deploy to Deploy a Stateful ESXi Host

Labs

VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]

Learn the advanced skills needed to maintain a virtual infrastructure based on ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1.

In this course, you will learn the advanced skills needed to configure and maintain a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure. The course is based on VMware vSphere^® ESXi™ 5.0 and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.1.

You will prepare for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration [V5] certification (VCAP-DCA). Completion of this course also satisfies the prerequisite for the VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DV) certification.

What You'll Learn

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment
• Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
• Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
• Use VMware vSphere ESXi Shell and VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to manage vSphere
• Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts

Who Needs to Attend

Experienced system administrators and system integrators

Prerequisites

Kowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server Experience working at the command prompt is highly recommended or completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1]
• VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.1]
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]

Follow-On Courses

• VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V5.x]

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration (VCAP-DCA)

Course Outline

1. VMware Management Resources

• Configuring vMA
• esxcli and vicfg commands
• Configuring ESXi technical support mode and SSH access
• Important ESXi and vCenter Server log files

2. Performance in a Virtualized Environment

• vSphere performance troubleshooting methodology
• Software and hardware virtualization techniques and their effects on performance
• Using vSphere performance monitoring tools

3. Network Scalability

• Creating, configuring, and managing vSphere distributed switches
• Migrating virtual machines from standard switches to distributed switches
• Distributed switch features, such as PVLANs, VMware vSphere Network I/OControl, port mirroring, and NetFlow

4. Network Optimization

• Performance features of network adapters
• Performance features of vSphere networking
• Monitoring key network performance metrics
• Using vMA to manage virtual network configuration
• Troubleshooting common network performance problems

5. Storage Scalability

• Configuring storage multipathing
• vSphere storage APIs for array integration and storage awareness
• Profile-driven storage
• Adding a storage policy to a virtual machine storage profile
• VMware vSphere Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) operation
• Configuring Storage DRS and VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control

6. Storage Optimization

• Diagnosing storage access problems
• Storage protocols, VMware vSphere VMFS configuration, load balancing, and queuing affect performance
• Monitoring key storage performance metrics
• Using vMA to manage virtual storage
• Troubleshooting common storage performance problems

7. CPU Optimization

• CPU scheduler and other features that affect CPU performance
• Monitoring key CPU performance metrics
• Troubleshooting common CPU performance problems

8. Memory Optimization

• Memory reclamation techniques and over commitment
• Monitoring key memory performance metrics
• Troubleshooting common memory performance problems

9. Virtual Machine and Cluster Optimization

• Performance guidelines for virtual machines, resource allocation settings, VMware vSphere DRS clusters, resource pools, and VMware vSphere High Availability admission control policies
• Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on failures
• Troubleshooting vSphere cluster problems

10. Host and Management Scalability

• Managing multiple vCenter Server inventories with vCenter Linked Mode
• VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management
• Using Host Profiles to manage ESXi configuration compliance
• Using VMware vSphere PowerCLI to perform vSphere administrative tasks
• Using Image Builder to create an ESXi installation image
• Using vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts

Labs

Lab 1: Use VMware vSphere Management Assistant

• Access your student desktop system
• Verify that your vSphere licenses are valid
• Power on a virtual machine
• Enable the ESXi Shell and SSH services
• Log in to vMA and connect to your vCenter Server and ESXi host
• Use esxcli commands to retrieve information about an ESXi host
• Use vicfg commands to configure NTP
• Use vmware-cmd to manage virtual machines

Lab 2: VMware Monitoring Tools

• Start database activity in your test virtual machine
• Display advanced vSphere Web Client performance charts
• Start esxtop
• Explore the esxtop screens
• Run resxtop in batch mode
• Use Windows Perfmon to display batch mode output

Lab 3: vSphere Distributed Switches

• Configure infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server - Part I
• Configure infrastructure to use a single vCenter Server - Part II
• Create a distributed switch for the virtual machine network
• Create a distributed switch port group
• Migrate virtual machines to a distributed switch port group
• Verify that your virtual machine has proper access to the Production network

Lab 4: Port Mirroring

• Back up the distributed switch configuration
• Configure port mirroring on a distributed switch
• Verify that port mirroring works properly
• Restore the distributed virtual switch configuration

Lab 5: Monitor Network Activity

• Start the network client and network server virtual machines
• Configure esxtop
• Perform test case 1: Measure network activity over the e1000 network adapter
• Modify test virtual machines to use vmxnet3
• Perform test case 2: Measure network activity over the vmxnet3 network adapter
• Perform test case 3: Measure network activity over the same network
• Summarize your findings

Lab 6: Command-Line Network Management

• View your virtual switch configuration
• Examine .vmx file entries related to the network configuration
• Examine net-dvs output

Lab 7: Profile -Driven Storage

• Create a VMFS datastore configuration for this lab
• Create a user-defined storage capability
• Create a virtual machine storage profile
• Enable your host to use virtual machine storage profiles
• Associate storage profiles with virtual machines

Lab 8: Manage Datastore Clusters

• Create a datastore cluster enabled for Storage DRS
• Perform a datastore evacuation with datastore maintenance mode
• Manually run Storage DRS and apply migration recommendations
• Acknowledge Storage DRS alarms

Lab 9: Monitor Storage Performance

• Identify the vmhbas used for local storage and shared storage
• Add disks to your test virtual machine
• Display the real-time disk performance charts of the vSphere Client
• Perform test case 1: Measure sequential write activity to your remote virtual disk
• Perform test case 2: Measure random write activity to your remote virtual disk
• Perform test case 3: Measure random read activity to your remote virtual disk
• Perform test case 4: Measure random read activity to your local virtual disk
• Summarize your findings

Lab 10: Command-Line Storage Management

• Use esxcli to view storage configuration information
• Use vmkfstools to manage volumes and virtual disks
• Generate disk activity in your test virtual machine
• Start vscsiStats
• Use vscsiStats to generate a histogram for disk latency
• Use vscsiStats to determine type of I/O disk activity
• Generate disk activity in your test virtual machine
• Use vscsiStats to determine type of I/O disk activity

Lab 11: Monitor CPU Performance

• Run a single-threaded program in a single-vCPU virtual machine
• Use esxtop to observe baseline data
• Use the vSphere Client to observe baseline data
• Import the CPU-HOG vApp
• Generate CPU contention
• Observe the performance of the test virtual machine
• Run a single-threaded program in a dual-vCPU virtual machine
• Run a dual-threaded program in a dual-vCPU virtual machine
• Run a multithreaded program in a quad-vCPU virtual machine
• Observe the performance of the test virtual machine

Lab 12: Diagnose CPU Performance

• Generate CPU activity
• Display pop-up charts for your ESXi host and your test virtual machine
• Check for host CPU saturation
• Check for guest CPU saturation
• Check for using only one vCPU in an SMP virtual machine
• Check for low guest CPU utilization

Lab 13: Monitor Memory Performance

• Generate database activity
• Display the memory screen in resxtop
• Display a memory performance chart for your test virtual machine
• Observe your test virtual machine's memory usage
• Import the RAM-HOG vApp
• Overcommit memory resources
• Observe memory statistics

Lab 14: Diagnose Memory Performance

• Generate memory activity
• Display the memory performance charts for your ESXi host and virtual machines
• Check for active host-level swapping
• Check for past host-level swapping
• Check for guest operating system paging
• Check for high guest memory demand

Lab 15: Diagnose Virtual Machine and Cluster Performance

• Move your ESXi host into the first problem cluster
• Troubleshoot the first cluster problem
• Troubleshoot the second cluster problem

Lab 16: Work with Host Profiles

• Create a host profile
• Attach a host profile to an ESXi host and check compliance
• Purposely introduce configuration drift
• Check compliance again
• Remediate the managed host
• Detach the managed host from the host profile

Lab 17: Use Windows PowerShell

• Start vSphere PowerCLI and find the vSphere PowerCLI version
• Retrieve the Windows PowerShell security policy
• Create a simple script
• Display the vSphere PowerCLI help files
• Connect and disconnect to your ESXi host
• Define a variable to store the ESXi host and vCenter Server system names
• Connect to the vCenter Server system
• Run cmdlets to find ESXi host-related information
• List the datastores on an ESXi host
• List the properties of a virtual switch
• Use Get-VM to retrieve virtual machine properties
• Use Get-Stat to retrieve performance information
• Migrate a virtual machine's disk to shared storage
• Use vMotion to migrate a virtual machine

Lab 18: Use Image Builder

• Export an image profile to an ISO image

Lab 19: Configure VMware vSphere Auto Deploy on a Windows vCenter Server System

• Install Auto Deploy
• Configure the DHCP server and TFTP server for Auto Deploy
• Use vSphere PowerCLI to configure Auto Deploy
• View the autodeployed host in the vCenter Server inventory

You will spend approximately 40% of class completing hands-on labs.

VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting Workshop [V5.1]

Gain advanced vSphere troubleshooting skills.

This hands-on training workshop provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware^® vSphere^® environment. This workshop also increases your skill and competence in using the command line to analyze problems. The workshop is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.1 and VMware^® vCenter Server™ 5.1. You will spend approximately 75% of class in hands-on labs.

What You'll Learn

• Use the VMware vSphere Web Client, the command line, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere
• Troubleshoot SSL certificate issues
• Troubleshoot networking issues
• Troubleshoot storage issues
• Troubleshoot single sign-on issues
• Troubleshoot vCenter Server issues
• Troubleshoot ESXi host issues
• Troubleshoot VMware vSphere High Availability cluster issues
• Troubleshoot VMware vSphere vMotion^® issues
• Troubleshoot virtual machine issues

Who Needs to Attend

• System administrators
• System integrators

Prerequisites

• VMware® Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DV)

• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• VMware Certified Professional - Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Troubleshooting

• Using a structured approach to troubleshooting

2. Troubleshooting Tools

• Adding the VMware vSphere Management Assistant to an Active Directory environment
• Using commands to record information about your vSphere configuration
• Locating important log files
• Installing the VMware vSphere Syslog Collector
• Gathering log bundles for technical support

3. SSL Certificates

• Implementing SSL certificates for vCenter Server
• Implementing SSL certificates for ESXi
• Troubleshooting SSL certificate issues

4. Networking

• Troubleshooting standard switch issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting management network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting distributed switch issues

5. Storage

• Troubleshooting LUN connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting multipathing issues
• Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues

6. Cluster Management

• Troubleshooting vSphere high availability issues
• Troubleshooting vSphere vMotion issues

7. vCenter Server and ESXi

• Troubleshooting single sign-on issues
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server service issues
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server database issues
• Troubleshooting ESXi host issues

8. Virtual Machines

• Troubleshooting virtual machine state issues
• Troubleshooting VMware Tools™ installation issues
• Troubleshooting VMware snapshot issues
• Troubleshooting virtual machine power-on issues

Labs

You will spend approximately 75% of class in hands-on labs.