VMWare Virtualization

 Module 1:- Installing ESXi & Deploying vCenter Server

• What is vSphere, ESXi & vCenter
• vSphere Hypervisor(Free Version)
• Support & Upgrade of ESXi Free Version
• Downloading, Installing & Configuring ESXi7
• How to Download ESXi & vCenter 60 days Trial from VMware Website
• ESXi free version Support & Upgrade
• Installing ESXi & DNS | Deploying VCSA-Stage1
• Configuring VCSA-Stage2

Module 2:- Configuring vCenter

• How to configure vCenter
• Creating Datacenter
• Add Host
• Create Cluster & Folders
•  ESXi Maintenance Mode

Module 3:- Licensing/Pricing of vSphere & vCenter

*  vSphere & vCenter Licensing

*  Assigning License to ESXi & vCenter

*  vSphere & vCenter Pricing

*  vSphere kits Licensing & Pricing

Module 4:- VM Creation & Modification

*  Create VM with Hot Add enabled

*  Methods of mounting ISO image to boot the VM

*  VM tools Installation

*  Hot Add of RAM, CPU & HDD

*  Hot Extend of HDD

*  Register/Unregister VM

Module 5:- Basics of Cloud Computing

*  Cloud Computing- IaaS, SaaS, PaaS

*  How Server is Created in AWS Cloud

*  Cloud is backbone of Virtualization

Module 6:- Templates, Cloning, Snapshot & Content Library

*  Exporting & Deploying OVF Template

*  Converting VM to Template

*  Creating Content Library

*  Adding ISO images and Templates in Content Library

*  VM files extension

*  Cloning Options

*  Guest OS Customization

*  Suspended State of VM

*  Difference between Backup & Snapshot

*  Creating, Managing & Deleting Snapshot

Module 7:- vSphere Security & Host Profile

*  Basics of vSphere Security

*  Adding AD Domain to SSO

*  Assigning permission to SSO user and AD user

*  Creating Roles

*  Creating and Applying Host Profiles

*  Reset ESXi root password using Host profile

*  Exporting & Importing Host Profile

Module 8:- vSphere Networking

*  vSphere Virtual Networking Terminologies

*  Discussion on Standard Switch

*  Virtual Machine Port Group & VMkernel Network Adapter

*  Creating Virtual Machine Port Group, VMkernel Network Adapter & Standard Switch

*  Adding/Removing vmnic on vSwitch

*  NIC Teaming & Active/Passive Failover testing

*  vSphere Advance Networking Scenarios

*  VLAN Tagging

*  Trunk Ports

*  Seperating vMotion and FT Traffic

Module 9:- vSphere Storage

*  Datastore Concepts

*  Shared Storage

*  SAN vs NAS

*  VMFS and NFS

*  FC & iSCSI SAN

*  Thin Disk, Thick Lazy Disk & Thick Eager Disk

*  Basics of HCI-Hyper Converged Infrastructure

*  Formatting Local Storage as VMFS

*  Adding iSCSI SAN to ESXi host and Formatting as VMFS

*  Mounting NFS storage on ESXi host

Module 10:- vMotion & SVMotion

*  Live Storage Migration using SVMotion

*  Live Server Migration using vMotion

*  Live Server & Storage Migration without Shared Storage (vMotion+SVMotion)

Module 11:- DRS & SDRS

*  Load Balancing across ESXi hosts using DRS

*  Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

*  Automation Levels in DRS

*  DRS Rules to keep VM Separate & Together

*  DRS rule VM to Host

*  Power Saving using DPM

*  Load Balancing across Datastore using SVMotion

*  Automation levels in SDRS

*  SDRS VM Affinity & vmdk Anti-Affinity rules

*  Overriding SDRS cluster Setting for vmdk anti-affinity rule

Module 12:- High Availability & Fault Tolerance

*  Requirements & Licensing for High Availability(HA)

*  Election of Master & Slave Host

*  Configuring & Testing HA

*  Primary & Secondary VM in FT

*  Configuring & Testing Fault Tolerance

Module 13:- vSphere Distributed Switch

*  Creating Distributed Switch

*  Adding ESXi Host to dvSwitch

*  Migrating all VMs & VMkernel to dvSwitch

*  Migration from Standard to Distributed switch

Module 14:- P2V Conversion, Backup of vCenter & Update Manager

*  P2V/ V2V using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

*  Taking Backup of vCenter and Restoring Stage 1

*  Taking Backup of vCenter and Restoring Stage 2

*  Using VMware Lifecycle Manger to Upgrade and Patch ESXi host Using VMware Lifecycle Manger to Upgrade and Patch ESXi host