1. VMWARE vSphere 4 & 5
Practical Implementation on Real Time Data Centers
Introduction to Virtualization
Managing VM’s through ESX commands
Understanding virtualization
Understanding VMware tools
Virtualization products
Deploying VMware tools
Introduction to VMware ESX/ESXi Server
Configuring VM’S to auto start & auto
shutdown
Understanding features of ESX/ESXi Server
Understanding product portfolio of VMware
Installation of ESX Server
Planning ESX/ESXi Server
Understanding requirements
Deploying ESX Server
Understanding vSphere Client
Understanding ESX/ESXi Licensing
Understanding & Deploy Virtual
Machines
Understanding storage Technologies
DAS
SAN
NAS
ISCSI
ESX Storage
Configuring storage adaptors
Understanding VMFS file system
Configuring VMFS partitions
Deploying virtual machines
Adding ISCSI Storage
Editing virtual machines
Adding NAS Storage
Removing virtual machines
Adding FC SAN Storage
Deploying guest operating system into VM
Virtual Networking

2. Understanding VLAN’S Trunks
Understanding VSwitch & port group
Configuring virtual Switch & port groups
Understanding VM kernel Adaptor
Configuring load balancing
Understanding Security policies
Configuring Traffic shaping policies
Install & configure v center Sever 5
Understanding Features of v center server
Understanding Architecture of vCenter
Installing v center server
Upgrading v center server 4.1 to 5.0
Create and modify user permission in ESX
server
Adding and modify users
Defining & Applying roles
Scheduled TASK,Events & Alarms
Understand Task,Events & Alarms
Configuring SMTP
Configuring Alarms
VM Migration
Understanding classic & storage VMotion
Configuring Classic & storage VMotion
Testing Classic & storage VMotion
Understanding v center Licensing
Distributed Switch
Adding ESX Hosts to v center Sever
Understanding Distributed Switch
Architecture
VM Management v center Server
Understanding cloning & templates
Cloning VM’s
Configuring Distributed Switch
Understanding VLAN Trunks
Deploying VM’s using templates
Configure private VLAN Trunks & Private
VLAN’S
Preparing Templates
Resource pools
User Acess Control
Configuring CPU & Memory resources
Understand roles & Privileges
Understanding resource pools

3. Configuring resource pools
Checking vmware ESX Logs
Understanding VMware clusters
Checking V center server logs
Understanding DRS Clusters
Verify ESX, VC Services
Understanding HA Clusters
Troubleshooting VM issues
Configure & test HA clusters
VMware Update Manager
Fault Tolerance
Installation update manager
Understanding Fault Tolerance
Configuring update manager
Understanding Enhanced Vmotion
Deploy patch to ESX Servers
Configuring Fault Tolerance
Testing Fault Tolerance
UP-gradation of Server
VDR Backup
Requirements for migration
Understanding VDR
Upgradation to ESX 5 from ESX 4.1/4.0
Installation and Configuring VDR
Scheduling Backup jobs
vSphere command line interface
Restoring VM’s
Managing ESXi
Testing Backup jobs
Managing VM’s
VMware Converter
Managing storage and network
Converting physical to virtual machine (p2v)
Troubleshooting ESXi using CLI
Converting virtual to virtual (v2v)
Understanding OVF format
Understanding ESX Server hardware
Architecture
VMware logs & Services
Understanding ESX operating system
Understanding Virtualization kernel

4. Understanding CPU, memory management
Understanding ballooning
Understanding Transparent page sharing