VMware vsphere 4.x/5.x to vsphere 5.5 Upgrade and New Technology Ultimate Bootcamp Course 01 - Course Introduction and Methodology

VMware vsphere 4.x/5.x to vsphere 5.5 Upgrade and New Technology Ultimate Bootcamp Course 01 - Course Introduction and Methodology

Slide 1 VMware vsphere 4.x/5.x to vsphere 5.5 Upgrade and New Technology Ultimate Bootcamp Learn IT! Do IT! Know IT! Welcome to the most comprehensive VMware Virtual Infrastructure and vsphere curriculum in the IT world This class is designed for those running vsphere 4.x & are preparing to upgrade to vsphere 5.5 Prepare yourself for 2 Days of intensity!

Slide 2 VMware vsphere 4.x/5.x to vsphere 5.5 Upgrade and New Technology Ultimate Bootcamp Learn IT! Do IT! Know IT! 1 Course Introduction and Methodology 2 vsphere 5.x Overview 3 Upgrade or Migrate to vsphere 5.5 4 Virtual Machine Enhancements 5 Managing vsphere 5.x Administration 6 Networking 7 Storage 8 Availability & Scalability 9 Security Enhancements

Slide 3 Certified Virtualization Expert (CVE ) Certification Certification is based on taking both the vsphere Ultimate Bootcamp AND passing the CVE exam The vsphere Ultimate Bootcamp is delivered through partner training centers worldwide To take the exam contact your training partner or email cve@vmtraining.net for test scheduling in your area. Exam cost is $195 per attempt Vouchers can be purchased at www.vmtraining.net/cart 80 questions in two hours, need a 75% score to pass Prep material is available at ftp://ftp.vmtraining.net:5004 Progressive and Q&A slides are available on the FTP site

Slide 4 VMTraining s Physical Setup The core of our datacenter is three Dell PowerEdge R610s & one R810 Dual Hex Core 2.4 GHz Xeon processors and 192 GB of RAM eight Gigabit NICs, Dual port 10 GigE Quad Ten Core 2.4 GHz Xeon processors and 512 GB of RAM eight Gigabit NICs, Dual port 10 GigE Storage devices 3 NFS servers (2 x 100 GB and 1 x 7.25 TB) 3 iscsi targets (3 x 2 GB LUNs and 28 x 2 TB LUN & Nimble with 12x3TB + 4 600GB SSDs) All our Hosts are running ESXi 5.5 & Managed by vcenter Server 5.5b

Slide 5 VMTraining s Setup - Student to Datacenter Student Computers use RDP to connect to the Datacenter Internet Dell R610s Dual Hex Xeon (3) R810 Ten Hex Xeon (1) HP P4000 VSA iscsi SAN Nimble CS460 iscsi SAN 12 x 3 TB SATA drives + 2.4 TB SSD EqualLogic PS100 iscsi SAN 28 x 2 TB SATA drives Dell 1950s (12) Quad Core Xeon 1.6 GHz Dell 1950s (100) Quad Core Xeon 2.33 GHz, 2.5 GHz & 2.66 GHz E5410s, E5420s & E5440s Virtual ESXi Hosts Dual Xeon E5645 2.4 GHz Terminal Server VMs TS3.vmtraining.net TS4.vmtraining.net.. DC.vi3.vm NAT-Router SQL2005.vi3.vm NFS.vi3.vm NFS2.vi3.vm FTP.vi3.vm TSVPN.vi3.vm Student ESXi hosts VM12-1, VM12-2, VC12 (These run inside a 1950 student ESXi host or vesxi host) C h a r l o t t e D a t a c e n t e r

Slide 6 VMTraining s Network IP setup IPs 172.16.x.y/16 172.16.1.y Usage Support Servers (DC, DHCP, DNS, FTP, NFS, etc) 172.16.2.# DRAC access (DRAC#.vi3.vm) 172.16.3.# Student vcenter Servers (vcenter#.vi3.vm) 172.16.4.# ESXi Host Management VMkernel Port (ESX#.vi3.vm) 172.16.5.1 8.254 DHCP Addresses for VMs 172.16.10.# ESXi Host VMkernel Ports for Storage 172.16.11.# ESXi Host VMkernel Ports for Multipathing to Storage 172.16.20.# Data Recovery Virtual Appliances (DR#) 172.16.21.# vshield Zones Management Appliance 172.16.22.# vshield Zones VM Wall Appliance 172.16.30.X Instructor central vcenter Servers (VCTSx.vi3.vm) # is the student /server number assigned to you for class by the instructor X is the number of the lowest numbered class Terminal Server (TS5, X=5)

Slide 7 Lab Terms Used Used in Labs Possible Entities Meaning RDP into DRAC into tsx DRAC# VIC into ESX# or VCTSx PuTTY into ESX# Use the Remote Desktop Client from the PC in the training center to connect to the Terminal Server number provided by the instructor. You will log into tsx.vmtraining.net with the user account vmuser# and your assigned password. (the Terminal Server tsx varies per instructor per class) From inside your Terminal Server Session, you will connect to the Remote Access Card (drac#.vi3.vm) in your assigned Dell Server to Power On, Power Off, Power Cycle & Reboot the physical server in our datacenter. You will also use the DRAC to mount ISO images to install ESX on your assigned Dell Server as well as upgrade your Dell server to the latest version of ESXi. The vsphere Client application (GUI) already installed in the Terminal Server that you will use from your TS session to connect to and manage your assigned ESXi host (esx#.vi3.vm) or your vcenter Server (VCTSx.vi3.vm) A common command line SSH utility used in ESX to connect to and manage ESXi hosts from a command line or CLI. When you see this directive in the labs, Double-Click on the PuTTY icon on the Terminal Server desktop in your TS session Console into Browse to VM# Web site Opening a Virtual Machine Console is opening a Window or a session to a virtual machine. From here you can log into the Operating System running inside the Virtual Machine (VM). On real Windows servers that means pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, in a VM Console that means pressing Ctrl-Alt-Ins. Use Internet Explorer to browse to a particular website such as the View Manager or View Portal on a Connection Server # n/a The number assigned to you by your instructor before Lab 1. Everywhere you see a word with a # sign at the end of it, replace the # sign with your assigned number. We refer to this throughout the course as your assigned server # or your assigned student# X n/a Typically, the lowest numbered Terminal Server used in Class, so TS5, X = 5. - - - -help These are double dashes, a space was added in the manual printing to keep them separate, but you should type dashdash

Slide 8 Lab Conventions Used Symbol Words Meaning NOTE: ALERT: HINT: Informational notes that explain and teach concepts. Beware, certain steps here are critical to other steps. In case you are getting stuck, there are hints. IMPORTANT: STOP: Make sure you pay attention to this information. Pay attention and read, you may not need to do the following steps Description Steps to perform task

Review Questions: 1. The Certified Virtualization Expert (CVE) Certification exam is made up of 80 questions. What percent do you need to score in order to pass the exam? A. 60% B. 65% C. 75% D. 80% 2. True or False: The lab term, PuTTy into, is a command line SSH utility used in ESX to connect to and manage ESXi hosts from a command line or CU. A. True B. False

Answer Key: 1. C In order to pass the CVE Certification exam, you need to score 75% or higher. 2. A True. PuTTy into is a command line SSH utility used in ESX to connect to and manage ESXi hosts from a command line or CU.