VMware VI 3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp® & Official Certified Virtualization Expert® (CVE®)
**HOL – A Hands-on Lab is provided for students on this chapter.
Chapter 1 - Course Introduction and Methodology (HOL)
Chapter 2 - Virtualization Overview
Chapter 3 - Planning and Installing ESX (HOL)
Chapter 4 - Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment (HOL)
Chapter 5 - Patching and Upgrading ESX
- Patching ESX Server (HOL)
- Upgrades and Migrations (HOL)
- VI3 Deployment Guidelines
- Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP (HOL)
- Troubleshooting ESX Server
Chapter 6 - Configuring Networking
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks (HOL)
- Create & Modify Virtual Networks using CLI (HOL)
Chapter 7 - Configuring Storage
- iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- Fibre Channel Storage (GUI & Command Line)
- VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line) (HOL)
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) (HOL)
- Storage Comparisons
Chapter 8 - VirtualCenter and License Server
- Licensing
- VirtualCenter Installation (HOL)
- VirtualCenter Inventory (HOL)
- Managing VirtualCenter
- Planning VirtualCenter Deployment
- Troubleshooting VirtualCenter, license, and databases
Chapter 9 - VM Creation and Configuration & Snapshots
- Create a VM (HOL)
- Create Multiple VMs (HOL)
- Physical to Virtual Conversions (HOL)
- Manage VMs (HOL)
- Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown
- Virtual Machine Snapshots (HOL)
- Web Access (HOL)
- Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
Chapter 10 - Security and Permissions
- Security Overview (HOL)
- User Access (HOL)
- ESX AD Integration (HOL)
- Managing Firewall (HOL)
- SSH Access (HOL)
- Configuring Sudo (HOL)
Chapter 11 - Advanced ESX and VirtualCenter Management
- Configuring Resource Pools (HOL)
- Configuring VMotion(HOL)
- Storage VMotion (HOL)
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) (HOL)
- Resource Pools in DRS Cluster (HOL)
- Update Manager (HOL)
Chapter 12 - Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- High Availability (HA) (HOL)
- Microsoft Clustering
- Backup Strategies
- Using VCB Command Line Utilities (HOL)
- Third Party Backups (HOL)
Chapter 13 - Server and VM Monitoring
- Tools for Optimization
- Monitor VM Performance (HOL)
- Configuring Alarms (HOL)
- Collecting Log Files (HOL)
Chapter 14 - Installing and Configuring ESXi (HOL)
*Please note that this content is meant to be a guideline.
Class material is subject to change and may be presented in a slightly different format than listed.