instructor - allan ackerman vca-dcv & vcp5-dcv click the graphic for assessment

CIT 198 vSphere 5.xInstall, Configure, and

Manage

Instructor - Allan AckermanVCA-DCV & VCP5-DCVClick the

graphic for assessment

Two years ago Tom Lisa asked me if I would setup CSN to be a vITA center. I said yes, but I would need to have one semester off to study for the certification.

That goal was started in August of 2012.

CSN is a vITA learning center.

Week#1 vSphere 5.1 2

vITA stands for VMware Information Technology Academy.

The mission statement of the vITA program is

The VMware IT Academy Program is designed to introduce students to VMware technologies and equip them with VMware technical skills to compliment their chosen fields of study. VMware will provide selected academic institutions with course materials developed by VMware for this purpose. By instituting this program, VMware seeks to create a collaborative relationship with academic institutions whereby their students may obtain the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) status and other VMware certifications.

What is vITA


The VMware Academic Program (VMap) is a comprehensive program designed specifically for the academic community. A nominal annual subscription fee of $250 enables qualifying academic users at VMAP member organizations worldwide to gain easy access to cutting-edge virtualization technology and resources.

All CSN CIT students can receive a free copy of VMware Workstation for Windows, Linux, or Mac with a two year license. (This is close to a $500 value if you purchased the product for all three OS’s.) Yes, the students can download and use all three versions.

CSN also belongs to the VMap program.


Getting my first 3 Microcomputers Northstar –z80 a C/PM machine, Commadore 8032, and Apple II 1978 & 1979.

The InternetGetting involved with VMware Workstation

in 2003

The three most important events in my career, i.e.,

these events changed my life.


VMware virtualization simulates a hardware platform - CPU, RAM, storage devices, & network resources by software. You run real OS’s like Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X on these virtual platforms and the OS does not even know the hardware is virtual – it thinks it is real.

The hypervisor is called ESXi and the management tool is called vCenter. Both of these machines need a minimum of two cores on the CPU. The ESXi 5.1 host need a minimum of 2GB or RAM and the new vSphere 5.5 ESXi host needs 4GB of RAM. The vCenter Server Windows app needs a minimum of 4GB RAM also.

What is VMware VSphere


How it works

Virtual Hardware

Real Hardware


Suppose you have a 2 processor Xeon each with 6 cores with hyper-threading. That means you have 24 logical CPUs. You set it up to be a exchange server. You look at your performance rating and you are never over 5%. What does that mean - with virtualization this machine could easily run 10 more servers. This is a huge savings not having 10 physical servers but just one.

Why is this important


Your power bill only reflects running one run server 24/7 not ten. This is another huge savings.

A disk with millions of files is now just one vmdk file and backup and restore becomes so much easier.

Many applications that need multiple servers to operate will actually run faster in a virtual environment.



Ten servers will generate a lot of heat, now we are running only one – you AC bill just went down by one half.

We can move virtual machines and disks while they are running to another physical server. 24/7 computing with no down time has become a real reality.

For me, as a network tech, this technology has changed my life. It used to take me a month or so to order, install, configure a server. With VSphere in place I can provision a fully configured machine in minutes not days.



VSphere is a suite of virtualization products for the datacenter.

ESXi is the type one hypervisor (This is also called a bare metal hypervisor. A type 2 hypervisor needs an underlying OS like Windows or Linux to make it work – VMware workstation is such a product.)

vCenter server - This is the management tool vSphere client - allows you to connect the vCenter server

from windows and also to the ESXi host. vSphere web client - allows you to connect to the vCenter

server from any web browser so this is our management tool for Linux and Mac.

VMFS – is a file system to manage a few but very large files with multiple connections.

vSphere comes in three flavors -> standard, enterprise, and enterprise plus.

What is VSphere


vMotion and Storage vmotion - allow you to move running machines from one ESXi host to another.

vMware High Availability – if an ESXi host crashes all the running machines will start up on another ESXi host in a matter of minutes automatically.

DRS – automatic load balancing between ESXi hosts VMware FT – allows you to create a two way cluster of

a VM. You can have up to four FT VMs per host. Host profiles – allows you to create a template for an

ESXi host. This will make configuring new ESXi host easy and will only take minutes instead of hours.

What is VSphere


Setting up and managing your virtual switches is just like managing a real switch – can take hours to setup.

There is a new switch that is available in VMware Enterprise Plus called a virtual distributed switch. Once setup you can link it up to 500 hosts in vSphere 5.1.

What is VSphere


Right now in 2013 over 51% of x86 servers are now virtualized. So this is what the students will see out in the real world over half the time.

VMware's goal is to get over 90% of the world’s servers virtualized. (Microsoft is now also in the virtualization game with their product called Hyper-V.)

Why is this certification important to CSN networking students?


Why is this certification important to CSN

networking students?


Why is this certification important to CSN

networking students?


This is the certification that we will be teaching at CSN. VMware has several more certification after this one that will put a

network engineer in the six figure pay bracket.

In the summer (2013) we installed three Dell 710 servers with 192GB of RAM and with several TB of hard drive storage.

We have installed our VMWare NDGLab courseware and pods. The CIT 198 course went online in the Spring of 2014. So the

spring 2014 class was the guinea pig. Each Dell can run 8 pods at a time we had 8 students running 5 virtuals all at the same time. (40 VMs total per Dell and we have two Dells for our virtual labs) The good news is we had no trouble run 80 VMs at the same time.

Each of you will receive your own lab of 5 virtual servers. You will

do 21 plus labs in this environment. We will have another 20+ labs on our personal nested

virtualization lab that will be constructed in class. If you were to use real physical servers and a storage SAN this would be tens of thousands of dollars worth of real equipment.

Our CSN VCP-DCV course status.


You will create a fully configured, working Windows 2008R2 enterprise server, fully configured, every update since 2008, MS security essentials in less than 3 minutes – that would take a normal person 5-6 hours.

That my friends has changed my life and if you are a network tech it will change your life too.

Within three weeks you are going to see an amazing magic trick


Objectives Install an ESXi host. To configure and manage

an ESXi host Be able to troubleshoot an

ESXi host Manage ESXi networking To be able to setup an iScsi

SAN Mange user access to the

virtual infrastructure Use vCenter Server to

monitor resource usage

Scale the vSphere virtual infrastructure

Plan business continuity solutions

Manage changes to the vSphere environment

Use a command-line interface to manage vSphere

Install the vCenter windows application.

Install the vCenter appliance


This is a lab intensive course

There are almost a 180 labs in the Sybex book. You should do almost all of them before you take the VCP-DCV 5.x exam.

We will do 21 labs on the NDGLab system (Cisco). These are virtual labs that can be done anywhere you have an Internet connection.

We will have about 20+ more labs on a virtual lab that we will construct in the classroom.

It is highly recommend that you duplicate this at home and create a home lab were you can continue your studies.


Prepare for the examThe VCP5.x is the hardest certification

exam I have ever taken – many call it the P.H.D. of certs. A 16 week course is not enough training to prepare you for this exam. I would give yourself one year – with several hours of practice every day before you take the VCP-DCV.

The VCA-DCV, however, is a very realistic goal after you take this class.


Prepare for the examStarting the third week we will have a 50

question quiz each week. Plus a midterm and a final exam with 100

questions each.That will be a total of 800 practice test

questions – and I can state from experience that will not be enough to prepare for this exam.

There are several other books on the market most of them have many practice test questions.


Let’s start on our labsThe first part of the PowerPoints are going to be

all about the labs. VMware has also given me a collection of slides with highlights from the e-book. I will include those slides too and that will be part two. The third part of the PowerPoint will be a short assessment followed by our weekly homework.

You have a folder on your Dell/Lenovo called _Fall2014.

You have a copy of vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1, and vSphere 5.5

Our in-class virtual lab will be created on vSphere 5.5


Week#1, LabsThe NDGLab (Cisco) environment will be

on vSphere 5.1.The Web client was so buggy in vSphere

5.1 it was almost unusable. It works just great in vSphere 5.5. You are expected to know how to use the Web Client so we are using vSphere 5.5 in class. When we get to mid-semester you will be doing all your in-class labs on the vSphere Web Client. You need to know both the C# and the Web Client for the exam. The NDGLab environment does almost all its labs the C# client.


Our In-class Virtual Lab

This will be our basic setup. We will have 4 machines. The two ESXi hosts will each have 6 NICs, the dc will have one NIC, and vc will have two.

The diagram became two messy when I put in all the NICs.



We will have four different networks in our virtual lab. Here they are and what their purpose is.

Network 1 - management and virtual machines

192.168.246.x Default Gateway is 192.168.246.2 and it will lead out to the CSN network. You need to be on this network if you want your virtual machines to get out the Internet. The ESXi hosts will have two NICs on this network – the other NIC will be used for redundancy in case of a NIC failure. We will use the management network to control and maintain our two ESXi hosts.



Network 2 - vMotion 192.168.1.x In vSphere the default gateway is always the

management network so that will be 192.168.246.2. In Linux everything is case sensitive so look at how I am spelling this network label. You will need to spell it that way too. ESXi1 = 192.168.1.21/24 and ESXi2 = 192.168.1.22/24

vMotion will allow you to move a running virtual machine from one host to another. You need to understand what a big deal this is. We can now have 24/7 computing. Let’s say you need to add more RAM to host 1. You vMotion all running machines to host 2. Turn off the computer, do your maintenance, reboot the host, vMotion all the machines back, and your end users do not know anything has happened at all – their computer was running the whole time. Week#1 vSphere 5.1 27


Network 3 – Fault tolerance 192.168.2.x ESXi1 = 192.168.2.21/24 and ESXi2 =

192.168.2.22/24 vSphere 5.x supports fault tolerance which is basically a 2

node VM cluster and if one machine fails the other will instantly kick in.

This is the one item that will not work in 5.1 or 5.5 in a nested virtual lab, but it will work with nested virtualization in vSphere 5.0. That is why I included the 5.0 in the _Fall2014 folder. You are welcome to try this at home if you want. Just ask me for the two hacks you need to set to get it to work. Highly recommended that you give this a try.

We will also be using this network when we do our distributed switch lab.Week#1 vSphere 5.1 28


Network 4 iScsi SAN 192.168.3.x Our windows 2008R2 member server,

vc.vita.local, will have 2 NICs one will be on the management network 192.168.246.20/24 and the other the iScsi SAN network 192.168.3.20/24.

Our two ESXi hosts each will have two NICs on this network – ESXi1 = 192.168.3.21/24 & 192.168.3.23/24 and ESXi2 = 192.168.3.22/24 & 192.168.3.24/24. This time the two NICs are not for fault tolerance but for round robin, we will make a team out of these two NIC cards and we well get faster throughput.


Labs 1 & 2 are on the ftp site

Download and print out labs 1 & 2.Lab 1 will be setting up our 4 default virtual

networks in VMware workstation - management, vmotion, fault tolerance, and iScsi.

Lab 2 will get us started on making a template to create fully configures 2008R2 machines in a mater of minutes. The first machine will take several hours but after that - anytime we want a new 2008R2 server it is just a couple of clicks away.

You will have wait times while you are doing these labs – come back to this PowerPoint and go through all 56 slides and get comfortable with what I have to say.


Assessment Chapter#1

VMware Workstation is a type 1 hypervisor

True or False


Answer

False -> it is a type 2 hypervisor, ESXi is VMware’s type 1 hypervisor also called a bare metal hypervisor.


The management tool in vSphere 5.1 is

called_______


Answer

vCenter


A minimum of _______ CPU cores are required for an ESXi5.x host.

Fill in the blank


Answer

2 cores is the minimum.


VMware vSphere by itself is an example of what type of cloud?A. PublicB. PrivateC. HybridD. VMware vSphere cannot do cloud

computing


Answer

B


________ are the four main resources used by computer in the vSphere architecture.

Fill in the blank


Answer

CPU, RAM, disk, network


vSphere 5.x comes in three editions – what are they?

A. StandardB. AdvancedC. EnterpriseD. Enterprise plus


Answer

A, C, D


vSphere 5 is based on which version of Linux ___________?

Fill in the blank


Answer

SUSE Linux


vSphere 5.x comes with a vCenter Appliance that is a stand alone version of vCenter based on SUSE Linux and a Windows server host is no longer needed?

True or False


Answer

True – (but it does have limitations)


In VMware workstation your disk file has what for an extension _________?

Fill in the blank


Answer

.vmdk


How much memory is required as a bare minimum for an ESXi 5.1 host.

A. 2GBB. 4GBC. 6GBD. 8GB


Answer

A


How much memory is required as a bare minimum for an ESXi 5.5 host.

A. 2GBB. 4GBC. 6GBD. 8GB


Answer

B


What does it take?

To get your VCP-DCV certification you need to have– Hands on experience (labs)

Do not take the certification exam until you have done all the labs in the Sybex book. The NetLab labs (21 total) only cover a tiny set of the exam objectives.

– Be able to answer lots of test questions. We will have over 800 practice test questions this semester and I can say after taking and passing this certification you need to do a couple of thousand.

– We will spend plenty of time on both of these skills sets in this class but you will need to continue your studies after this class is over.


What does it take?

Here are the prerequisites for this course.– Understanding of a Windows NOS (Our CIT 212

will satisfy this requirement) We will be using 08R2 server

– No fear of Linux O/S– Basic knowledge of virtualization concepts

( i.e., know how to use VMWare workstation)– Basic knowledge of networking (Our CIT 112

will satisfy this requirement) – Desire to learn


Homework for week# 1

Do Labs#1 & 2 Read Chapter#1, VCP5 Study Guide, Brian Atkinson Download the exam blue print @

– http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=12457&ui=www_cert&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDgQFjAA&url=http://www.vmware.com/go/vcp5dcv&ei=r6raUqyC

Download the configuration maximums for vSphere 5.1 and 5.5– http://

www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf

– http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf

I will be creating these PowerPoints weekly – since this is my second class, I still need you to be the editor. Please let me know if you find any errors, typos in these slides. It will be greatly appreciated.


http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=12457&ui=www_cert&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDgQFjAA&url=http://www.vmware.com/go/vcp5dcv&ei=r6raUqyC




http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf





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