Certified Virtualization Engineer

The Certified Virtualization Engineer course empowers IT administrators and engineers with cutting-edge knowledge and practical skills in software-defined data centers, virtualization, and cloud technologies to master the design and management of future-ready data centers.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design and manage virtual machines for optimal performance and security.

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Implement and administer advanced virtualization and cloud solutions.

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Understand virtualization pros, cons, best practices, and core technologies.

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Prepare for, and excel in, the Certified Virtualization Engineer (C)VE Exam.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Virtualization and Cloud Administrators
  • Systems Administrators
  • Cloud Security Engineers
  • Systems Engineers

Description

This fast-paced, high energy, hands-on course provides not only the foundation needed for a top performing software-defined data center, it also provides the latest in virtualization and cloud technologies which gives the engineer or administrator the knowledge and skills needed to design and manage the datacenter for tomorrow's needs. This course will cover everything from design, installation, configuration, best practices, performance monitoring, and just about everything in between!

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Course Outline

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Chapter 1 – Software Defined Datacenter

  1. Overview of Virtualization

  2. Overview of Public and Private Cloud

  3. How it all fits together

    1. Designing the Datacenter for today and tomorrow

    2. Key technologies for a virtual and private cloud datacenter

Chapter 2 – Installing and Managing ESXi

  1. Planning for the Installation

    1. Installation Options

    2. Auto Deploy

  2. Installing ESXi (Hands On Lab (HOL))

    1. Using the DCUI (HOL)

    2. ESXi Configuration Settings (HOL)

  3. Hostname Resolution (HOL)

  4. NTP (HOL)

  5. IP Address (HOL)

  6. Syslog (HOL)

  7. Accessing ESXi

    1. vSphere Client (HOL)

  8. !! THE NEW ONE !!

  9. Configuration Settings

  10. Management User Interface (MUI) (HOL)

  11. SSH Access (HOL)

  12. Managing ESXi

    1. esxcli and its many uses

    2. Controlling User Access (HOL)

    3. Active Directory Integration (HOL)

    4. Managing the Firewall (HOL)

    5. Troubleshooting

Chapter 3 – Installing and Managing vCenter

  1. vSphere/vCloud Licensing

  2. vCenter Requirements

    1. Minimum Specifications

    2. Database Requirements

  3. vCenter Architecture

  4. Planning vCenter Installation (HOL)

  5. Embedded Platform Services Controller

  6. External Platform Services Controller

  7. vCenter Single Sign-On (HOL)

  8. vSphere Web Client (HOL)

  9. Certificate Authority (HOL)

    1. Certificate Store

  10. vCenter Overview of Capabilities (HOL)

    1. Inventories

      1. Inventory Lists

      2. Hosts and Clusters

  11. VMs and Templates

    1. VM Templates in Folders

  12. Storage

  13. Networking

  14. Hybrid Cloud

  15. vCenter Orchestrator

  16. Monitoring

    1. Task Console

    2. Event Console

  17. vCenter Operations Manager

  18. Host Profiles

  19. VM Storage Policies

  20. Customization Specification Manager

  21. VM Placement Policies

  22. Administration

    1. Roles

    2. System Configuration

  23. Licensing

  24. Policies and Profiles

  25. Virtual Datacenters

  26. Content Libraries

  27. Managing vCenter related to general tasks (HOL)

  28. Troubleshooting vCenter Server and Database

  29. vCenter Appliance (HOL)

    1. Migrating to the vCenter Appliance

    2. Requirement

    3. New Features

Chapter 4 – Configuring and Managing a vSwitch

  1. Virtual Switch Types, Connections and Identification

  2. Physical NIC configuration

  3. vSwitch Features (HOL)

    1. Port Types (HOL)

  4. Cisco Discovery Protocol

  5. VLAN’s (HOL)

  6. Security Settings (HOL)

  7. Traffic Shaping

  8. NIC Teaming (HOL)

  9. Load Balancing Best Practices

  10. Physical Switch Configuration

  11. Using the CLI to create and manage vSwitches (HOL)

Chapter 5 – Configuring and Managing Storage

  1. Storage Overview

    1. iSCSI, Fiber Channel and NAS

  2. vStorage API’s

  3. Storage Multipathing (HOL)

  4. Storage Configuration

    1. iSCSI, FC and NAS (HOL)

  5. Monitoring Storage (HOL)

  6. Storage CLI Commands (HOL)

  7. Troubleshooting Software iSCSI

  8. Virtual Machine File System (HOL)

  9. vVols

  10. Raw Device Mapping (HOL)

  11. Solid State Disks

  12. Storage Views (HOL)

Chapter 6 – Configuring and Managing Virtual Machines

  1. Overview of VM Hardware

    1. VMware® Tools (HOL)

  2. Creating a VM (HOL)

  3. Clones (HOL)

  4. Templates (HOL)

  5. Virtual Appliances (HOL)

  6. VMware® Converter (HOL)

  7. Managing the VM (HOL)

  8. Snapshots (HOL)

  9. Troubleshooting the VM

Chapter 7 – Configuring and Managing Distributed Switches

  1. DvSwitch Design Concepts

  2. Physical Switch Configuration

  3. DvSwitch Features

    1. Standard features (HOL)

    2. Port Types

    3. Port Groups (HOL)

      1. Port Binding

  4. Discovery Protocols (HOL)

  5. VLAN’s (HOL)

  6. Security Settings (HOL)

  7. Traffic Shaping

  8. NIC Teaming (HOL)

  9. Load Balancing

  10. Advanced features

    1. Network I/O Control (HOL)

    2. Port Mirroring

  11. NetFlow

  12. LACP Support

  13. Private VLANs (HOL)

  14. Traffic Filtering and Tagging (HOL)

  15. Uplink Settings

  16. Migrating from vSwitch’s to a DvSwitch (HOL)

  17. Using the CLI to create and manage a DvSwitch

Chapter 8 – vSphere Management

  1. vMotion (HOL)

  2. Storage vMotion (HOL)

  3. vCenter Host Cluster (HOL)

    1. Covers all Cluster Features

  4. Distributed Resource Scheduler (HOL)

  5. Using vApps (HOL)

Chapter 9 – Backup and Disaster Recovery Implementation and Management

  1. High Availability (HOL)

    1. Fault Domain Manager

  2. Virtual Machine Fault Tolerance

  3. Microsoft Clustering

    1. How it works

    2. Its uses in a vSphere Infrastructure

  4. Backup Solutions

    1. vSphere Data Protection (HOL)

    2. Third Party Solutions

  5. Disaster Recovery Solutions

    1. vCenter Site Recovery Manager

    2. Third Party Solutions

Chapter 10 – vSphere Upgrading and Patch Management

  1. Why do we worry about patching and upgrading?

  2. Patching the ESXi host (HOL)

    1. Stand Alone

    2. Using Update Manager (HOL)

  3. Patching Virtual Appliances

  4. Patching Virtual Machines

  5. Planning the Upgrade

  6. Performing the Upgrade

Chapter 11 – vSphere Monitoring and Performance (Availability Constraints)

  1. Configuring ESXi resources for best performance (HOL)

    1. Understanding the resources such as CPU, Memory and Disk

  2. Configuring the VM for best performance (HOL)

  3. Monitoring the vSphere and vCloud Infrastructure (HOL)

    1. vCenter Performance Tab (HOL)

    2. esxtop (HOL)

  4. Configuring Alarms (HOL)

  5. Using Resource Pools properly (HOL)

  6. Troubleshooting performance issues

  7. vSphere Logs (HOL)

Chapter 12 – vSphere Native Security for Admins

  1. ESXi Native Controls

    1. Active Directory Integration (HOL)

    2. Managing the Firewall (HOL)

    3. Logging

    4. Lock Down Mode

    5. Acceptance Level

  2. vCenter Native Controls

    1. Encrypted vMotion

  3. VM Native Controls

    1. Security out of the Box

Detailed Lab Outline

  1. Lab 1 – Installing the Hypervisor

  2. Lab 2 – ESXi Management

  3. Lab 3 – Managing ESXi with vSphere

  4. Lab 4 – SSH Access

  5. Lab 5 – Syslog Settings

  6. Lab 6 – Controlling User Access

  7. Lab 7 – Active Directory Integration

  8. Lab 8 – Managing ESXi Firewall

  9. Lab 9 – Attach ESXi to host via vSphere

  10. Lab 10 – Getting around the vShpere Web Client

  11. Lab 11 – Setting NTP on ESXi Host

  12. Lab 12 – Setup vCenter Appliance

  13. Lab 13 – Create Virtual Switches

  14. Lab 14 – Create Virtual Switch from the CLI

  15. Lab 15 – Configuring storage via the GUI

  16. Lab 16 – iSCSI Storage Verification using CLI

  17. Lab 17 – configuring the NFS Datastore

  18. Lab 18 – Working with VMFS

  19. Lab 19 – Setting up and Installing a VM

  20. Lab 20 – Working with Virtual Appliance OVF

  21. Lab 21 – Working with Cloning and Templates

  22. Lab 22 – Extending a vmdk

  23. Lab 23 – Rename Virtual Machine Files

  24. Lab 24 – Using Snapshots

  25. Lab 25 – Setup an RDM

  26. Lab 26 – VMware converter

  27. Lab 27 – Create Virtual Distributed Switch

  28. Lab 28 – Configuring Network I/O Control

  29. Lab 29 – Configuring PVLAN

  30. Lab 30 – Migrating from a vSwitch to a vDSwitch

  31. Lab 31 – Using SvMotion

  32. Lab 32 – Using vMotion to Migrate VMs

  33. Lab 33 – Using Advanced SvMotion

  34. Lab 34 – Create a DRS Cluster

  35. Lab 35 – Monitoring Performances

  36. Lab 36 – Creating Alarms

  37. Lab 37 – High Availability

  38. Lab 38 – Setting up and using vDP

  39. Lab 39 – Update Manager

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