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Duration:  2  Days

Price: £ 995

VMware Infrastructure Skills for Operators

Overview

This hands-on training course focuses on day-to-day management of existing VMware Infrastructure 3 (“VI3”) deployments. It covers selected features of VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter.

This course does not qualify participants to attempt the examination for VMware Certified Professional status. For more information about how to become a VCP, see http://www.vmware.com/certification

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Install and configure virtual machines
• Deploy virtual machines from templates
• Migrate and manage virtual machines
• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual machine problems

Target Audience

Personnel responsible for day-to-day operations in an existing VI3 environment. (Personnel responsible for the build-out or scaling of VI3 sites should instead participate in, first, VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure, and then VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and Analyze.)

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.

Course Outline

Module 1: Virtual Infrastructure Overview

• VMware products: functions and applications

Module 2: Creation and Management of VMs

• Use of templates
• Manage using VMware VirtualCenter and Web Access

Module 3: Resource Management

• Setting VM priorities on CPU, memory, and other resources
• VMotion migrations

Module 4: VM Resource Optimization and Monitoring

• Workload assessment

Module 5: VM Troubleshooting

• Systematic isolation of problems
• Common symptoms, faults, fixes