VMware vSphere 5: Configuring

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Part 2 of 3 in the VMware vSphere 5 series covers configuring VMware vSphere 5, including datacenters, hosts, virtual machines, virtual storage and more.

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Course Description

Part 2 of 3 in the VMware vSphere 5 series covers configuring VMware vSphere 5, including datacenters, hosts, virtual machines, virtual storage and more. This comprehensive course will show you how to virtualize your server and network infrastructure in an innovative, efficient, and reliable way using VMware vSphere 5. You'll walk away from this course able to install and configure ESXi 5 and vCenter 5 and able to manage virtual machines, virtual storage, networking and you'll also know how to leverage advanced features such as VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance and more. To get the most from this course, you should know the basics of virtualization, and some experience working with VMware vSphere will be helpful, but is not required.

Course Description

Part 2 of 3 in the VMware vSphere 5 series covers configuring VMware vSphere 5, including datacenters, hosts, virtual machines, virtual storage and more. This comprehensive course will show you how to virtualize your server and network infrastructure in an innovative, efficient, and reliable way using VMware vSphere 5. You'll walk away from this course able to install and configure ESXi 5 and vCenter 5 and able to manage virtual machines, virtual storage, networking and you'll also know how to leverage advanced features such as VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance and more. To get the most from this course, you should know the basics of virtualization, and some experience working with VMware vSphere will be helpful, but is not required.

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Course Syllabus

vCenter 5 - Configuring Your New Virtual Infrastructure
- 40m 36s

—Introduction 2m 9s
—Planning the Virtual Infrastructure 3m 55s
—Naming Convention 4m 37s
—vSphere Network Virtualization Diagram 0m 34s
—Adding Datacenters and Hosts 6m 33s
—Configuring the ESXi Server Clock and NTP 2m 8s
—Configuring vSphere Licensing 1m 54s
—Reviewing System Logs, vCenter Sessions, and Service Status 2m 22s
—Removing Getting Started Tabs 1m 2s
—Monitoring ESXi Host Health Hardware Status 3m 14s
—vCenter Server Settings and Plugins 7m 13s
—Adding Folders 2m 58s
—What We Covered 1m 50s

Creating and Modifying Virtual Guest Machines
- 43m 34s

—Introduction 2m 29s
—Three Ways to Create Virtual Machines 1m 1s
—Downloading VMs from Virtual Appliance Marketplace 2m 10s
—VMware Guest OS Install Guide 0m 38s
—Changing BIOS Settings in a Guest VM 4m 8s
—Creating ISO Images of CD/DVD Install Media 1m 51s
—Using the vSphere Datastore Browser 3m 39s
—Using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) with vSphere 3m 33s
—Accessing ESXi Using SSH 3m 20s
—Creating a New Virtual Machine with a Fresh OS Install 16m 7s
—vSphere 5 EFI Firmware Option 1m 57s
—What We Covered 2m 34s

Installing and Configuring VMware Tools
- 17m 39s

—Introduction 1m 39s
—Why You Need VMware Tools 5m 25s
—Installing VMware Tools 0m 44s
—Searching and Sorting to Check VMware Status 0m 19s
—Updating VMware Tools 0m 18s
—Performing VMware Tools Installation 4m 0s
—Configuring VMware Tools with VMware Toolbox 3m 22s
—What We Covered 1m 49s

Understanding and Using Tasks, Events, and Alarms
- 27m 54s

—Introduction 1m 32s
—Understanding Tasks and Events 3m 24s
—Configuring SNMP and SMTP Email in vCenter 1m 12s
—Alerting You with vCenter Alarms 1m 59s
—Viewing, Filtering, and Exporting Tasks and Events 5m 7s
—Adding and Managing Alarms 9m 47s
—Disabling Alarm Actions 0m 49s
—Performing Configuration of SNMP and SMTP 0m 58s
—vCenter Service Status 0m 37s
—What We Covered 2m 24s

Virtual Storage 101 and Storage Terminology
- 1h 5m

—Introduction 2m 7s
—Storage 101 - Virtual Disks and VMFS 5m 32s
—Data Transfer 3m 15s
—Comparing Storage Technologies 2m 53s
—Storage Area Network (SAN) 101 1m 23s
—Fiber Channel SAN Components 2m 9s
—Fiber Channel HBAs 0m 57s
—Fiber Channel Connectivity 2m 30s
—Zoning 1m 58s
—Managing FC Storage 6m 51s
—Addressing FC SAN LUNs 6m 58s
—Understanding iSCSI Storage 8m 20s
—Why You Need a SAN 0m 59s
—Configuring iSCSI Storage 8m 17s
—Configuring NFS Storage 1m 11s
—Properties of Fiber Channel Datastore 4m 24s
—Storage Terminology and Specs 3m 43s
—What We Covered 2m 13s

vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
- 16m 33s

—vSphere Storage Appliance Overview 6m 12s
—What Makes VSA Unique 2m 33s
—VSA Cluster Design Options 1m 27s
—VSA SAN Maintenance Mode 0m 51s
—VSA Installation Gotchas 3m 52s
—What We Covered 1m 36s

Creating a Free iSCSI SAN with OpenFiler
- 32m 30s

—Why Use OpenFiler? 3m 50s
—Downloading OpenFiler 1m 15s
—Installing OpenFiler 8m 0s
—Configuring OpenFiler as an iSCSI SAN 11m 39s
—Connecting vSphere to the OpenFiler iSCSI SAN 5m 59s
—What We Covered 1m 45s

Administering VMware ESXi Server Security
- 30m 31s

—Basics of vSphere Security 6m 13s
—Default vSphere Security Roles 1m 15s
—Adding, Modifying, and Removing ESXi Users and Groups 7m 37s
—Using Windows AD Users and Groups to Secure vSphere 2m 31s
—Defining and Applying Roles and Permissions 5m 39s
—vShield Overview 3m 17s
—Securing Guest Virtual Machines 1m 41s
—What We Covered 2m 15s

vSphere Virtual Networking
- 46m 44s

—Introduction 2m 11s
—Virtual Networking 3m 32s
—Network Adapters 2m 28s
—Virtual Standard Switches (vSS) and pSwitch 1m 54s
—Types of vSwitches 1m 36s
—Virtual Switch Ports 10m 52s
—What is a VLAN? 9m 7s
—MAC Address Changes 2m 44s
—Forged Transmits 2m 0s
—NIC Teaming 8m 0s
—What We Covered 2m 16s

Using the vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (dvswitch)
- 27m 57s

—Introduction 1m 32s
—vSphere Distributed Switch 2m 20s
—Private VLANS - pVLANs 2m 20s
—pVLANs Secondary Mode Notes 1m 54s
—Networking Policies 1m 7s
—Configuration Tasks 0m 57s
—Creating a New dvSwitch 5m 8s
—Creating a dvPort Group 1m 20s
—Migrating Legacy vSwitches and VM Networks to dvSwitch 2m 59s
—Migrating VMKernel Virtual Adaptors to dvSwitch 1m 28s
—Configuring Private VLANs 5m 5s
—What We Covered 1m 42s

Moving Virtual Machines with vMotion
- 22m 17s

—Why You Need vMotion 3m 8s
—vMotion Requirements 2m 52s
—vMotioning Virtual Machines 5m 0s
—Performing vMotion 4m 45s
—Enhanced vMotion Compatibility 5m 5s
—What We Covered 1m 23s

Moving Virtual Storage with svMotion
- 17m 8s

—What is svMotion? 4m 0s
—svMotion Requirements 2m 31s
—Using svMotion 4m 46s
—Migrating VMs with Snapshots 4m 23s
—What We Covered 1m 27s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Cloud Computing , Development & Implementations , Networks & IT Infrastructure , Operating Systems and Server & Storage Management Community

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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VMware vSphere 5: Configuring

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VMware

VMware vSphere

Storage Area Network (SAN)

internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA)

Virtualization

Virtual networking

Virtual Memory System (VMS)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

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