Topic A: Learn IT! Do IT! Know IT!

Module 02 – Virtualization Overview – 1h 2m

Topic A: Why Virtualize?

Module 03 – Planning and Installing ESXi – 1h 24m

Topic A: Planning the ESXi Deployment
Topic B: vSphere 5.x Deployment Guidelines
Topic C: vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Installation
Demo 01 – Install ESXi 5
Demo 02 – ESXi Host Install Part 1
Demo 03 – ESXi Host Install Part 2
Demo 04 – ESXi Host Install Part 3
Topic D: Configuring Hostname Resolution and NTP
Demo 01 – Demo 1 – ESXi NTP Information
Topic E: Troubleshooting ESXi

Module 04 – Using Tools to Administer a VMware Environment 50m

Topic A: Overview of 3rd Party Tools
Topic B: ESXi Management
Demo 01 – vSphere Client
Demo 02 – PuTTY Session
Topic C: Linux Command Review
Demo 01 – VI Editor
Topic D: Troubleshooting the vSphere Client (VIC)

Module 05 – vCenter Server 5 and Licensing – 1hr 39m

Topic A: Licensing
Topic B: vCenter Server Installation
Demo 01 – vCenter Appliance
Topic C: vCenter Server Inventory
Topic D: Managing vCenter Server
Topic E: Planning vCenter Server Deployment
Topic F: Troubleshooting vCenter Server and Database
Demo 01 – vCenter Statistics

Module 06 – Configuring Networking 1hr 48m

Topic A: Creating & Modifying Virtual Networks
Demo 01 – Network Configuration Part 1
Demo 02 – Network Configuration Part 2
Topic B: vSphere Distributed Virtual Switches
Demo 01 – Virtual Distributed Switch
Topic C: Creating & Modifying Virtual Networks Using CLI

Module 07 – Configuring Storage – 2hr 16m

Topic A: Storage Concepts
Topic B: iSCSI Storage (GUI & Command Line)
Demo 01 – v5 Storage Setup
Topic C: Fibre Channel Storage
Topic D: VMFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
Demo 01 – Creating a VMFS-3 Datastore Part 1
Demo 02 – Creating a VMFS-3 Datastore Part 2
Demo 03 – Creating a VMFS-5 Datastore
Topic E: NAS Storage and NFS Datastores (GUI & Command Line)
Demo 01 – NFS Creating
Topic F: Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

Module 08 – VM Creation, Configuration, and Snapshots  – 2hr 40m

Topic A: Create a VM
Demo 01 – Creating a VM Part 1
Demo 02 – Creating a VM Part 2
Topic B: Create Multiple VMs, Templates & Clones
Demo 01 – Template Provisioning Part 1
Demo 02 – Template Provisioning Part 2
Demo 03 – Template Provisioning Part 3
Topic C: Virtual Appliances
Topic D: VMware Converter (P2V – V2V)
Topic E: Manage VMs
Demo 01 – New VM Features in vSphere 5
Topic F: Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown
Demo 01 – VM Startup/Shutdown
Topic G: Virtual Machine Snapshots
Demo 01 – Snapshots
Topic H: vSphere Web Client
Demo 01 – v5 Web Client
Topic I: Virtual Machine Troubleshooting & Best Practices

Module 09 – Security and Permissions  – 1h 10m

Topic A: Controlling User Access and Passwords
Demo 01 – vSphere Client Permissions Part 1
Demo 02 – vSphere Client Permissions Part 2
Topic B: ESXi Active Directory (AD) Integration
Demo 01 – Active Directory Integration
Topic C: Managing Firewalls
Demo 01 – Firewall
Topic D: SSH Access Topic E: The root Account
Topic F: VMsafe and Vshield

Module 10 – Server and VM Monitoring  – 1hr 24m

Topic A: Optimizing Resources
Demo 01 – Harware Status
Topic B: Performance Monitoring
Demo 01 – Veeam Monitor
Topic C: Configuring Alarms
Topic D: ESXi and vCenter Logs
Demo 01 – esxtop

Module 11 – Advanced ESXi and vCenter Server Management  –2hr 28m

Topic A: Storage Views & Topology Maps
Topic B: Storage vMotion
Demo 01 – Storage vMotion
Topic C: Configuring vMotion
Demo 01 – vMotion
Topic D: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cluster
Demo 01 – Creating a Cluster
Demo 02 – DRS Usage Part 1
Demo 03 – DRS Usage Part 2
Topic E: Datastore Clusters & Storage DRS (SDRS)
Demo 01 – Storage DRS
Topic F: Resource Pools and Monitoring
Topic G: Host Profiles
Demo 01 – Host Profiles in vSphere 4.x
Demo 02 – Host Profiles in vSphere 5
Topic H: Linked Mode Group of vCenter Servers
Topic I: vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

Module 12 – Patching and Upgrading ESXi – 39m

Topic A: Patching ESXi Standalone Hosts
Topic B: Patching with Update Manager
Topic C: Upgrades and Migrations

Module 13 – Disaster Recovery and Backup – 1hr 26m

Final Exam Practice