VMware vSphere 5.5 Study Guide - ESXLab

1 Sample Chapters5 Day VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenterA step by step approach to successful virtualization planning, deployment and Includes Chapters 0, 3, 5 and Lab 3 OnlyFeaturing VMware vSphere withVMware ESXi , VMware vCenter ,and related productsFebruary 2014 Study Guide 5 Day VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenterA step by step approach to successful virtualization planning, deployment and VMware vSphere withVMware ESXi , VMware vCenter ,and related productsFebruary 2014 VMware vSphere with ESXi and vCenterCopyright 2009 - 2014 by All rights reserved. No reproduction by any means, mechanical, electronic or otherwise, without prior written permission from the , written, published by:Larry Karnis, Claypine TrailBrampton, Ontario CanadaL6V 3L8 Phone:Toll Free:Facsimile:LinkedInE-mail:Web:Twitte r:(905) 451-9488(888) 451-3131(905) @ESXLabFirst edition published October 2009 Second update for vSphere , December 2010 Fourth edition updated for vSphere 5, April 2012 Fifth edition updated for vSphere , November 2012 Sixth edition updated for vSphere , February 2014To find out more about our products and services including consulting services, renting our remote lab facilities, running your own VMware class or custom training and content solutions, please visit our website or e-mail the author: document was prepared in its entirety using the open source LibreOffice office suite.

2 LibreOffice can be freely downloaded for free from Microsoft Visio 2007was used to create some of the slide graphics. Final PDF assembly was performed with PDFF actory Pro available at Screen grabs were captured with Snagit document, the images, screen grabs, etc. are original works. This document is copyright 2009-2014 by All rights reserved. No reproduction by any means including photo-copying or electronic imaging is permitted without prior written authorization from the copyright training material is provided 'as is', without any warranty either expressed or implied. prepared this material with due care for accuracy and completeness, but does not warrant that the content is either error free or suitable for any specific use. By using this courseware, the user agrees to accept responsibility for all results desirableor otherwise. Customer agrees that all lab exercises are for illustration purposes only, and assumes all risks including but not limited of data damage or loss, resulting from such use.

3 Customer agrees to indemnify and its employees/contractors from all claims arising out of the use or misuse of the material in our , Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, etc. are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. GroupWise and NetMail are trademarks of Novell Inc. Lotus Domino is a trademark of IBM Corporation. RedHat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora are trademarks of RedHat Inc. VMware , VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Player, VMware ESX, VMotion, vSphere , etc. are registered trademarks of VMware Corporation. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective is an independent training and content development company that is in no way affiliated with or in any way related to VMware Inc. In no case is any such relationship either implied or Line & Table of ContentsDay 1 TopicsChapter 0 - OverviewChapter 1 VMware vSphere OverviewChapter 2 Standalone ESXi Chapter 3 Virtual & Physical Networking Chapter 4 NAS Shared StorageDay 2 TopicsChapter 5 Virtual MachinesChapter 6 vCenter Chapter 7 Virtual Machine Rapid DeploymentDay 3 Topics Chapter 8 Permission ModelChapter 9 Fibre and iSCSI Shared StorageChapter 10 VMware File SystemChapter 11 AlarmsChapter 12 Resource PoolsDay 4 TopicsChapter 13 VMware Converter StandaloneChapter 14 VM MigrationChapter 15 Distributed Resource SchedulerChapter 16 VMware High Availability ClustersDay 5 TopicsChapter 17 Host ProfilesChapter 18 VMware Update ManagerChapter 19 VMware vSphere ReplicationChapter 20 Performance Monitoring and TuningChapter 21 Final ThoughtsAppendixAppendix 1 Definitions & AcronymsAuthor's

4 NoteTwenty five years ago, I started my IT career as a UNIX/C programmer. By 1992, I was working as a very busy UNIX administrator so I gave up the safety of fulltime work for consulting. As a hedge against down time, I contacted a major training company and offered my services. Soon,I was teaching their UNIX and C programming classes (very popular at the time). Over time, my love of UNIX morphed into a love of Linux so by 2002 I was teaching Linux for 2004, I had the very good fortune to be contacted by VMware . Would I like a job working as atrainer? I said no and asked if they wanted a contractor. They said no. I had this conversationwith VMware three times in 2004 until they finally agreed to hire me as a contractor. I sat the ESX I & II classes and earned my VMware Certified Professional on ESX (VCP# 993).I worked as a contract resource for VMware for about 4 years. I got to watch ESX grow from a niche product used primarily for testing into a full blown production platform.

5 VMware was a young, company creating technical magic (VMotion was absolutely unbelievable in 2003). IMHO,their software magicians were, and still are without equal. They have since delivered Storage VMotion, High Availability, DRS clusters, Fault Tolerant VMs and much, much 2008, I left VMware to work again as an independent. I enjoy training and was still a huge advocate of VMware 's technology, so I decided to start a company to provide vendor independent VMware training courses that anyone could run. The result is this book Study Guide fully explains how each vSphere feature works. The accompanying Lab Guide takes you through the mechanics. Each lab starts at the very beginning and takes you through all the steps needed to complete the job. There is no magic in this course because nothing is done for you. In most cases, you can perform the labs at work exactly the same way and get the same result (just be careful and don't break anything!)

6 Developing courseware is much like developing software (my first job). You write, re-write, review, edit update, test until you truly believe that it is bug free. The reality is that bugs exist and no doubt, some are lurking in this book set. If you find one, please let me know. I'll fix the issue and the next version of the courseware will be better for your input. As a bonus, I will provide a free ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist exam voucher to the first person who reports each unique bug VMware vSphere has rekindled my love of IT, and I've seen it do the same for others. Demand for VMware vSphere skills is growing and so will your career once you master VMware vSphere My hope is that this class will help you get there much KarnisE-mail: Phone: 1 (905) 451-9488 x100vSphere , ReadyLab Servers Rentals forClass or Individual has over 150 servers availablefor Rent our servers if you: Purchased our course books from one of our publishing partners, and need servers to run through the labs Would like to run through the labs a 2nd time to improve your familiarity and skill with vSphere Would like to offer VMware vSphere , or training at your company or training center, but don't have local hardware on which to run the labs To practice migrations, upgrades, etc.

7 Before trying them on your own production machinesWhat's Included in my Server Pod Rental From 1 to 12 HP DL365 enterprise class servers Servers includes Quad Core CPU (Fault Tolerant compliant), 8GB RAM, 36-300GB of disk, 3 or 4 gb NICs, HP ILO 2 remote management 2, 1 gb Ethernet segments for NFS, iSCSI SAN, management, VMotion, Fault Tolerant logging and general VM network use An NFS service with all media images needed to complete our labs An iSCSI SAN service for shared access storage Live support to help run our labsGet a QuotePrices start at just $250 for 2 servers for a full 7 days, and includes our Lab Guide in PDF. To get a kit rental quote, please call or e-mail it us with your needs and preferred dates:Toll Free: 1 (888) 451-3131 Phone: 1 (905) 451-9488 Fax: 1 (905) 451-7823E-mail: : July 2012 NotesChapter 0 IntroductionPhotocopying this book in whole or in part is not permittedOverview-1 Copyright 2013 by All rights reserved.

8 No reproduction without prior written 0 - Overview VMware vSphere with ESXi and vCenter NotesChapter 0 IntroductionPhotocopying this book in whole or in part is not permittedOverview-2 Copyright 2013 by All rights reserved. No reproduction without prior written Introduction to Virtualization in general Introduction to vSphere features Class OverviewNotesChapter 0 IntroductionPhotocopying this book in whole or in part is not permittedOverview-3 Copyright 2013 by All rights reserved. No reproduction without prior written Before & After A software abstraction that creates virtual hardware & maps it to physical hardware Is completely transparent to guest OS and applicationsAppO/SAppO/SAppO/SVMware vSphereBefore VirtualizationTraditional PC Server Deployments One O/S and Application per server Captive local disk Workloads locked to serverVirtual Deployment Require fewer physical servers Can run many workloads as Virtual Machines Workloads not locked to server (cold migration, VMotion, Storage VMotion) Load balancing and high availability options depend on shared disk Higher hardware utilization rates Lower marginal cost to deploy new workloads (just make a new VM)

9 Better reliability and performance due to more capable hardware New options for Disaster Recovery, Back UpNotesChapter 0 IntroductionPhotocopying this book in whole or in part is not permittedOverview-4 Copyright 2013 by All rights reserved. No reproduction without prior written vSphere VMware ESXi Enterprise class server virtualization software Management, Performance, Monitoring vCenter Server, vCenter Server Appliance Workload Resource Balancing VMotion, DRS Load Balancing Clusters Storage Resource Balancing Storage VMotion, Storage Profiles, Storage DRS High Availability HA Clusters, Fault Tolerant VMs Workload Migration and Back Up vCenter Converter Data Recovery / Data Protection / ReplicationVMware provides a complete suite of products both for virtualization as well as for management, back up, disaster recovery, testing, replication and much more. These products make migrating to virtualization deployments very primary risk of virtualization is too many eggs in one That is, you cre-ate risk if you consolidate workloads into virtual machines but lack the ability to:- Load balance your VMs across physical servers- Load balance storage capacity and performance across storage volumes- Rapidly recover VMs that fail when a physical host fails- Easily manage and monitor VMs- Deploy VMs from known good imagesIf you cannot load balance, then you run the risk of poor VM performance (due to host resource over-commit).

10 If you cannot automatically place and restart VMs due to a physical server failure, then you may have critical production VMs down for hours if a host fails. Further-more, if a physical host that supports a large VM population fails catastrophically, then your VMs might be down for days (until the hardware can be repaired). VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides solutions for all of the above. Other products are maturing but do not yet offer the same breadth or depth of functionality as 0 IntroductionPhotocopying this book in whole or in part is not permittedOverview-5 Copyright 2013 by All rights reserved. No reproduction without prior written Topics Virtualization Overview Stand Alone ESXi Virtual & Physical Networking Virtual Machines, Rapid Deployment vSphere Management NAS and SAN Shared Storage VM Migration, Load Balancing High Availability Physical to Virtual Conversions VM Back Up, Recovery and Replication Scalability and PerformanceThe above items are key topics in this class but not a complete list of topics.