VMware with Windows& Unix Scope Document
1) Overview of Different Virtualizations
2) Overview of VMware Environments which includes ESX 3.02, ESX 3.5 & VSphere ESXi 4.
3) Basic ways & steps of logging into VI components include ESX Hosts, VCenter and connecting to Service console.
4) Overview of VCenter environment through VI Client
5) Overview of Different kinds of Storage available and their Configurations
6) Configuring a NIC card to an ESX host
7) Configuring Port Groups,VLans,Trunks and VSwitches
8) Viewing System Logs in Vcenter and ESX host logs.
9) Managing the VI Client Inventory like Adding, Moving, Removing VI objects.
10) Adding and Removing a host from Vcenter
11) Creating & Modfying Virtual Machines in Vcenter using ADS
12) Configuring Virtual Machines with required Virtual Hardware
13) Adding additional RAM, increasing the VMDK Size
14) Deploying a Template, Cloning and snapshoting a VM’s
15) Cold Migrations of VM’s to different locations in Vcenter.
16) Hot Migrations or Vmotion the VM’s in the Vcenter
17) Updating Vmware Tools for VM’s
18) SVmotion the VM’s in the Vcenter using third party Apps for 3.5.
19) Managing Users, Groups, permissions and Roles in Vcenter.
20) Monitoring Performance of VM’s in a Vcenter.
21) Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms.
Part -2
1) Configuring Storage to ESX host
2) Updating and patching ESX hosts and VM’s
3) VI Client updates
4) Vcenter Updates
5) Vcenter Database backup’s
6) VM’s Back ups
7) ESX host Backups
8) Trouble Shooting VM’s
9) Trouble Shooting ESX hosts.
10) Configuring SNMP to ESX hosts
11) Configuring HA
12) Building a new ESX host
13) Hardware Updates and failures
14) Performance Issues
15) DRS and Resource Pools
16) ESX and VM’s Security
Windows Infrastructure
• Working Active Directory
• Working with Group Policies
• Differences between with windows 2003 and 2008 servers
• Overview of KVM and other consoles we use in real time
UNIX Overview
• Introduction to Linux
• Understanding Linux Partitions
• Basic’s of Linux Commands
• Overview of Linux Administration
• ESX console commands in RED Hat 3.5