VMW06 - VMware vSphere® 5.0 Ultimate Bootcamp®

This comprehensive class prepares the student to become a certified professional virtualization expert with the Certified Virtualization Expert 5® (CVE 5®) certification to attest to their knowledge of the material and technology.

Course Outline

Summary

This 5-day intensive (10hr/day) VMware® vSphere 5 Ultimate Bootcamp® is taught by top virtualization experts and offers hands-on labs designed to expose the student to advanced virtualization concepts and the VMware® vSphere 5 product suite. This comprehensive class prepares the student to become a certified professional virtualization expert with the Certified Virtualization Expert 5® (CVE 5®) certification to attest to their knowledge of the material and technology.

Overview

VMware vSphere® 5.0 is the industry leading virtualization technology platform accelerating the shift to cloud computing for existing datacenters. The Ultimate Bootcamp® that has become known to be the most comprehensive VMware training course in the industry will be available this September as vSphere® 5.0 Ultimate Bootcamp.

This course combines several popular VMware vSphere classes into one 5 day accelerated-learning bootcamp with content and concepts from multiple VMware® classes: Install, Configure, Manage; What€(TM)s New!; Manage for Performance; and Troubleshooting!

The Ultimate Bootcamp® maximizes the students' training experience with hands-on labs based upon real-world scenarios and conducted with state-of-the art equipment.  The Ultimate Bootcamp imparts students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maximize efficiency in the work place.  The class will prepare the student to achieve the Certified Virtualization Expert® 5.0 (CVE5.0) certification which will demonstrate their knowledge and skills as a certified professional.

This FIVE day course includes all the important content you would find in 7 of VMware's most popular courses.  Save over 65% in cost!

• VMware Course Course Length VMware Cost
• Install, Configure, Manage (ICM) 5 Days $3495.00
• Skills for Operators 2 Days $1495.00
• What's New! 2 Days $1495.00
• Manage Availability (MA) 1 Day $745.00
• Manage Scalability (MS) 1 Day $745.00
• Manage for Performance 3 Days $2475.00
• Troubleshooting 4 Days $3295.00
• Fast Track (combines ICM, MA, & MS) 5 Days $4700.00

Taught by leading experts in the field of virtual technologies, students will gain key insights into the constant evolution of cloud based datacenters, hybrid cloud modeling, new pooled vRAM licensing, setting up and managing multiple hosts, mastering vCenter 5.0 services and how to maximize datacenter efficiency while maintaining VMware licensing compliance policies.

Students attain not only knowledge, but experience, utilizing vSphere 5.0 technologies along with information and labs on 3rd party tools providing skills that directly translate to real-world ability and empowering the students to better manage their vSphere environment more effectively. Read more about the benefits of our vSphere class

Who Should Attend

System Administrators, Engineers, and Operators responsible for setup, support, and troubleshooting of ESXi 5 Server and/or vCenter 5.

Qualified Instructors Make A Difference

The Ultimate Bootcamp® instructors are not just instructors. They are also
consultants who have performed small, medium, and large consolidation
projects, and who have real world experience using the virtualization
technology and techniques that they teach. Bringing this experience into the
classroom gives the student a real training experience not found in other 9-5
training programs. Students are able to work on their own, bring their
questions into the classroom, and ask the "What If" questions that they are
working on in their own live environment.

Essential Third Party Tools

Any job is easy when you have the right tools. In the Ultimate Bootcamp®
the student will be introduced to and learn how to apply third party tools
that when utilized in conjunction with VMware, will not only enhance
students€(TM) skills, but also simplify processes, optimize efficiency, and make
their jobs that much easier.

Quality "Resourceware" and Follow-on Continuing Education

With more than 750 pages and a 250 page lab book, this Ultimate
Bootcamp® courseware is intuitively designed to help the student
easily move through the chapters regardless of their level of
experience and will serve as a reference source even after the class.
This unique feature of all Ultimate Bootcamps® is what attracts so
many students looking for a great training experience.

Course Summary

• Five (5) 10 hour days of intense instruction with no outside distractions
• Personal access to the top virtualization experts in the industry
• Each student is provided their own dedicated server to practice on.
• 50 + labs to hone skills and give a 360° perspective on how to build and maintain virtual environments. Labs include: vMotion, Storage vMotion, High
• Availability (HA), Data Recovery, Hot Add, Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Storage DRS, Network I/O Control, New esxcli & localcli, NetFlow monitoring, ESXi 5.0 Firewall, Host Profiles, Policy Driven Storage,VMFS-5 and many other virtualization technologies.
• Install, configure, deploy, secure, analyze, consolidate and design virtual networks from A-Z
• Learn to apply third party solutions to simplify processes and make the job easier.
• Post mentoring from the best virtualization instructors in the industry.
• The Certified Virtualization Expert® certification establishes credentials with employers.

Course Objectives

The primary objective of the vSphere® 5.0 Ultimate Bootcamp® is to train the ultimate virtualization expert through intense immersion in a five day accelerated training bootcamp.

Upon the completion of the Ultimate Bootcamp, students will learn:

• About all of the new and exciting features of VMware vSphere® 5.0
• Foundational terms and concepts concerning virtualization
• How to install, configure, and support ESXi Server 5 and vCenter 5
• How to configure Virtual Networking including vNetwork Distributed Switches & vShield Zones & how to support VMotion & iSCSI Multipathing
• P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P methods and techniques
• Server Consolidation procedures and reasoning
• Tools to support a virtual infrastructure - VMware®, PlateSpin®, Vizioncore, Veeam, and more
• VMotion, Storage VMotion, Distributed Power Mgmt (DPM), Update Manager, Power Mgmt, Guided Consolidation, Fault Tolerance, Clustering - DRS/HA, etc.
•  Best Practices within a Virtual Enterprise
• How to perform backups in the ESXi environment - Service Console and Virtual Machines - VCB and Data Recovery
• How to use the Command Line Interface for supporting ESXi Servers - ESXi commands
• Configure and optimize storage - FC, iSCSI, NFS, Multipathing, and Thin Provisioning

OUTLINE

Chapter 1
Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2
Virtualization Overview and What's New in vSphere 5
Chapter 3
Planning and Installing ESXi 5 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor)

• Planning ESXi 5 Server Deployment
• Deployment Guidelines
• ESXi 5 Image Builder
• ESXi 5 Server Install (HOL)
• Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)Troubleshooting ESXi 5 Server

Chapter 4
Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment

• Overview of 3rd Party Tools
• ESXi Management (vSphere Client, NEW V5 esxcli, vCLI, vMA, Putty, PowerCLI, Web) (HOL)
• Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)

Chapter 5
vCenter Server 5 and Licensing

• Demystifying vSphere 5 Licensing
• vCenter Server 5 Installation (HOL)
• vCenter Server 5 Virtual Appliance
• vCenter Server 5 Inventory (HOL)
• Managing vCenter Server 5 (HOL)
• vCenter Solutions Manager
• Planning vCenter Server 5 Deployment
• Troubleshooting vCenter Server 5 Deployment

Chapter 6
Configuring Networking

• Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
• Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
• vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switches & NIOC (HOL)
• Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting (NetFlow, Port Mirror, LLDP, 802.1p Tagging)

Chapter 7
Configuring Storage

• Storage Concepts, Storage Awareness  & Profile Driven Storage
• iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• Fibre Channel Storage & Software FCoE (GUI & Command Line)
• VMFS 5 Datastores and SSD (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
• vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)
• Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL) 
  

Chapter 8
VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots

• Create a VM (HOL)
• Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones(HOL)
• Virtual Appliances (HOL)
• VMware vCenter Standalone Converter  (P2V, V2V) (HOL)
• Manage VMs (HOL)
• Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown (HOL)
• Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
• vSphere 5 Web Client (HOL)
• Troubleshooting Virtual Machines

Chapter 9
Security and Permissions

• Controlling User Access and passwords (HOL)
• ESXi 5 AD Integration (HOL)
• Managing ESXi 5 Firewall (GUI & Command Line)(HOL)
• VMSafe and vShield Zones

Chapter 10
Server and VM Monitoring

• Configuring Alarms (HOL)
• VM Optimization for vSphere 5 Licensing (HOL)
• Optimizing Resources
• Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
• Using NetFlow Tool (HOL)
• ESXi, vCenter Logs and syslog (HOL)

Chapter 11
Advanced ESXi and vCenter Management

• Storage Views & Topology Maps
• Storage VMotion and SvMotion Snapshots (HOL)
• Configuring VMotion (HOL)
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
• Resource Pools and Monitoring (HOL)
• Storage DRS (SDRS) (HOL)
• Host Profiles (HOL)
• VSphere 5 Auto Deploy (GUI & Command Line)
• Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers

Chapter 12
Patching and Upgrading vCenter/ESX/ESXi

• Patching ESXi 5 (HOL)
• Patching with Update Manager (HOL)
• Upgrades and Migrations (ESX to ESXi)
• Upgrading from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x

Chapter 13
Disaster Recovery, Backup and Deployment

• Site Recovery Manager 5 (SRM5)
• High Availability (HA) & Fault Domain Manager (FDM) (HOL)
• VM Fault Tolerance
• Microsoft Clustering
• Backup Strategies
• VMware Data Recovery (HOL)
• Third Party Backups (HOL)

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

This Ultimate Bootcamp is intended for IT Professionals with 1 or more years of server and infrastructure experience. Individuals should have experience on Microsoft Windows and/or Linux Servers.

Certificates offered

LUNCH IS INCLUDED EACH DAY Interested in Certifying? - For an additional $195 take the exam on the afternoon of the final day. - You will get an exam prep guide and a free re-write

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Toronto, Ontario
Canada   M5S 1M2

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This course was great, very informative, had Lionel as instructor and he was also very good.

Reviewed by Robin T. 2012

   

Instructor was eager to assist but lacked subject matter expertise. Course time management was very poor. Content provided could have been delivered effectively in a one day course.

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Good Course, good trainer. All questions addressed equally and in a timely professional manner.

Reviewed by Joe L. 2011

   

The course content was interesting; however, the instructor didn't have enough knowledge about Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Development and wasn't able to answer questions without google search. In the future CTE needs to make sure the instructors have real on-hands experience and are highly trained in the technologies they are supposed be teaching.

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