VMware Training ESX and VirtualCenter server

In class we give students a full set of tools to learn how to install, support, and troubleshoot a VMware Enterprise environment.

Here’s some of what we cover:

• ESX Server 3.x Physical to Virtual (P2V) migrations
• Upgrade from ESX 3.x to 3.5
• Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations
• VirtualCenter 2.5
•  VMware Lab Manager
• VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
• VMware Converter 3.0 Enterprise Edition

Here’s what the students have access to:

Each student will setup their own ESX Server, License Server, VirtualCenter Server, and use a variety of tools to support the VMware Enterprise. This course offers students to build, support, and troubleshoot their own server. The ESX server sites in class with the student and is not virtual. In other words students have a real physical server to install and configure. We do not use Citrix to run a class with ESX. This is mobile training and we can run it anywhere.

Below are the chapters we cover in class:

Chapter 1: What’s New – an in-depth look at Infrastructure 3

Chapter 2: Introduction to a Virtualized Environment – Terms and concepts to support Virtualization

Chapter 3: Installing ESX server 3.x and upgrading to 3.5

Chapter 4: Configuration of Virtual Machines, templates, and clones

Chapter 5: Configuration of Virtual Networking and supporting VMotion

Chapter 6: P2V and V2V Methods and Techniques

Chapter 7: Server Consolidation Procedures and reasoning

Chapter 8: Tools to support a virtual infrastructure – VMware, Platespin, Vizioncore

Chapter 9: VirtualCenter install, configure, and support

Chapter 10: Best Practices with a Virtual Enterprise

Chapter 11: The ESX Server inside – a look a understanding the underlining OS

Chapter 12: Backing up the ESX Environment – Service Console and Virtual Machines

Chapter 13: Using the Command Line Interface for supporting ESX Servers – esx commands

Appendix A: Licensing – Licensing the I3 product suite

Appendix B: Instructor notes – set up a low cost SAN, notes, commands…more

Appendix C: VMware Security – Virtual Machine, Virtual Center, ESX and SAN security

Appendix D: Logging – view log files and location for VM’s, Virtual Center, and ESX

Appendix E: ESX Server 3i – setup, and configure

Appendix F: Module bullets – highlights for each module

Appendix G: Helpful Websites – list of a variety of web sites for VMware engineers

Appendix H: Test your knowledge answers – answers to question at the end of each Chapter

Appendix I: Glossary  - list of terms and definition.