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VCIM

(Virtualization Configuration

Installation Management)

Training Location: Fast Lane, Knowledge Village, Dubai

Presented by: Southgates Vmware Team

Stephen Achi

Ijeoma Ozoemenam


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VCIMCourse

14 Modules

21 Labexercises

(Hands on)

5 DaysTraining


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Course Introduction

* Equipping administrators on;

- Product knowledge- Skills

- and Abilities to build and run a VMware vSphere environment

* Focuses on the CIM of ESXi hosts , vCenter and VMs

* Help prepare IT professionals in achieving their VCP (Vmware Certified

Professional) on vSphere 5 (VCP 5)

What is Vmware vSphere* Introduction to Virtualization

- Comparizms between Physical & Virtual architectures

- Benefits of using VMs

- EXSi architecture

* Vmware vSphere User Interfaces

- Connecting the vSphere Client to the ESXi host- Configuring ESXi setting

- Lab1:- installing and using the vSphere Client & the ESXi host

* Overview of ESXi

- Architecture

- Configuration Settings

- Lab2:- Configuring the ESXi host

COURSE CONTENT


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* Vmware vSphere VMFS Datastores

- Creating a VMFS datastore

- Increasing the size of a VMFS & deleting a VMFS datastore

- Lab9:- working with VMFS datastores

* Vmware vSphere Storage Appliance

- Describing the architecture, requirements of VMware vSphere Storage

Appliance Cluster configuration

- How a VSA cluster handles failures

Managing Virtual Machines

* Creating Templates & Clones

- Lab10:- deploying a VM from template & cloning a VM* Modifying Virtual Machines

- Describing VM settings & options

- Lab11:- modifying a VMs hardware

* Migrating Virtual Machines

- Describing types of migration

- Explaning & Identifying Vmsphere vSphere vMotion- Lab12:- Using vMotion to migrate VMs

* Creating Virtual Machines Snapshots

- Taking a snapshot of VM & manage multiple snapshot & deleting

Snapshots

* Creating a vSphere vApp & Registering a Virtual Machine

- Lab 13:- Performing Serveral Virtual Machine Task


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Lets get started!


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CourseFocus

Skills

Abilities to buildand run a VMwarevSphere

environment

CIM of ESXi hosts, vCenter and VMs

Help prepare IT professionals in achievingtheir VCP (VMware Certified Professional)

onvSphere 5 (VCP 5)

Product knowledge

COURSE INTRODUCTION


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What is VMware vSphere ?

An Infrasture virtualization suite that

does the following;

Provides Virtualization, management,

resource optimization, applicationavailability, and operational

automation capabilities

Aggregates physical hardware resources

and provides virtual resources to thedatacenter

Virtualized


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Benefits of VMware vSphere

The most advanced virtualization platform

available:- Virtualizes Physical server into VirtualServers

Saves your Company a lot of money

It a foundation for Cloud ComputingOperating System

Applications

No One ratio One (1:1) Set up

Physical Host

Physical Host

Hypervisor

osApp os

App os

App


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Ethernet FibreChannel

iSCSIStorage

NFSStorage

Fibre ChannelStorageNetwork

Virtual

Machines (VMs)

Physical host

Hypervisor

Virtual Infrastructure


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Physical & VirtualArchitectures

Applications(APP)

x86 Architecture

Operating System (OS)

Physical Architecture Virtual Architecture

APPOS

x86 Architecture

Vmware vSphere

APPOS

APPOS


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Resource Sharing

Applications

x86 Architecture

Operating System

Physical Architecture Virtual Architecture

APPOS

x86 Architecture

Vmware vSphere

APPOS

APPOS

CPU Virtualization

Physical and Virtualized Host Memory Usage

Physical and Virtual Networking

Physical File Systems and VM vSphere VMFS

h i i l d


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How vSphere Fits into CloudComputing

Installing vSphere 5 and creating a virtual infrastructure

The VMs runs in this virtual infrastructure

Vmware vCloud Director enables you to create a cloud

Third party companies host private clouds

VMware clouds empower you to run your virtual machines in

a private or public cloud to fit business needs

PrivateCloud

PublicCloud


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Easy to move

and Copy

Easy to manage

Provides theability tosupport legacyapplication

Allows serversto beconsolidated

WHY USE

VIRTUALMACHINES ?


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VMware vSphere User Interfaces

IP address / Name:

Client Name:

Password:

Login Close Hide


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Preparing the lab

Configuring ESXisetting

Overview of ESXi

- Architecture &Configuration

Settings


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VM Concepts

Configuration Options

Installing VMware Tools

into the guest OS


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vCenter Server Architecture

Configuring & deploying thevCenter Server appliance

Managing vCenter Server

Inventory OS

Managing vCenter ServerInventory OS

Lab5:- performing basicvCenter Server

Inventory

Operations


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Describing a Virtualswitch, connectiontypes and components of

a vNetwork Standardswitch

Configuring Standard VirtualSwitch Policies


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Storage Concepts

Lab7:- Configuring access to iSCSI&

NFS datastore

Lab8:- Designing a network

configuration for an ESXiHost

VMware vSphere VMFSDatastores

Lab9:- working with VMFSdatastores

VMware vSphere StorageAppliance Cluster

architecture & configuration


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Creating Templates & Clones

Modifying Virtual Machines

Migrating Virtual Machines


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Data Protection

Backing up virtual machines requires strategies thatmake use of virtualization architecture to performhighly efficient backups with minimal impact onother virtual machines unlike when backing upphysical servers.

VMware uses Changed Block Tracking (CBT) andData Deduplication methods to carry out backups in

order to avoid unnecessary duplicating alreadyexisting file blocks


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Access & Authentication Control

According to best practise each user should haveonly the necessary permissions they need and

VMware vCenter allows flexible assignment ofpermissions and roles

Access control can be achieved through configuringfirewalls, using vShield products (like vShield Egde,

vShield Endpoint, vShield App and vShield Zones) to

secure the edge of the virtual datacentre, protectvirtual applications from network-based threats andstreamline anti-virus protection


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Resource Management & Monitoring

Resource contention: since VMs simultaneously use resources of aphysical server they should know how to respond when virtualmachines compete for resources and this brings the need forresource pools Resource pool allows administration to divide and allocate resources to virtual

machines and other resource pools

Although the VMkernel works proactively to avoid resourcecontention, maximising performance requires both analysis andongoing monitoring. When the physical memory on a host is lessthan the sum of memory allocated to all virtual machinesovercommitment occurs. Memory is reclaimed whenovercommitment occurs though the following techniques: Economize use of physical memory pages Ballooning mechanism Memory compression Page virtual machine out to disk

Performance can be monitored using some tools in the guestoperating system and vCenter Server


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High Availability (HA)

High Availability (HA) is and instance in which the system iscontinuously operational for a desirably long time

High availability for vCenter Server is primarily implementedusing VMware vCenter server heartbeat and vSphere High

Availability.

vSphere HA is used to find out if an ESXi host is isolated orcrashed.

When a machine stops sending heartbeats, the guest Operating system isrestarted and when an application fails , the host on which theapplication resides is restarted.

Fault Tolerance (FT) is a higher level of availability from HAand it allows users to protect machines from failure. For bestperformance it is recommended that ESXi host monitoring isenabled


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Scalability

A cluster is a collection of ESXi hosts and associatedvirtual machines with vSphere HA and vSphere DRS.

A DRS cluster is managed by VMware vCenter Server

When a host is added to the DRS cluster the hostsresources become part of the clusters resources


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Patch Management

The VMware vSphere will go through somehardware and software changes in terms ofconfiguration or software updates over time. Thesechanges are implemented in an orderly andsystematic way through the Update manager.

This makes management easier by reducing the

diversity of systems in the environment and also iteliminates security breaches that exploit older

vulnerabilities


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Installing vSphere Components

ESXi Hardware requirements: 64 bit processor (AMD, INTEL)

2 GB minimum RAM

One or more internet controllers

Disk storage

vCenter Server Requirements:

Two 64 bit CPUs / one 64-bit dual core processor

2 .0 GHz or faster AMD or Intel processor

4GB RAM

Gigabit connection (10/100 Ethernet adapter minimum)


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