Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2  Virtualized Data Center

• Introduce components of the virtualized data center
• Host, VM, Virtual Center, VMNic, VMware Update Manager
• Install and use vSphere Client

3  Installing VMware Components

• Introduce ESXi installation
• Describe boot-from-SAN requirements
• Introduce vCenter Server deployment options
• Describe vCenter Server hardware, software, and database requirements
• Install vCenter Server (Windows-based)

4  Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

• Describe, create, and manage a standard switch
• Describe and modify standard switch properties
• Configure virtual switch load-balancing algorithms

5  VMware vCenter Server & Differences between Virtual Center Server   5.5, 6.0

• Installation of windows 2008 R2 for Virtual Center Server
• Installation of SQL 2008 Data Base
• Creation of Data Base for SSO, Virtual Center server & VMWare Update Manager
• Creation of DSN Links for Virtual Center & Update Manager
• Installation of SSO
• Installation of Inventory services
• Installation of Web Client
• Installation of Virtual Center Server
• Installation of Vsphere Client
• Virtual Center server on Linux SUSE (VCSA)

6  Patch Management

• Installation of VMWare update manager
• Configuration of Update manager
• Security patches installation through Update manager
• Create patch baselines
• Scan and remediate hosts

7  Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage

• Introduce storage protocols and device names
• Configure ESXi with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage
• Create and manage vSphere datastores

8  Creating Virtual Machines

• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine hardware, and virtual machine files
• Virtual Hard Disk Types
• Deploy a single virtual machine

9  Virtual Machine Management

• Use templates and cloning to deploy virtual machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations
• Requirement of vMotion and storage vMotion

10  High Availability and Fault Tolerance

• Introduce the new vSphere High Availability architecture
• Control policy of HA
• Configuration of EVC Mode in HA
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance

11  Scalability

• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) cluster
• Configuration and Management  of DPM
• Configure Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
• Use vSphere HA and DRS together

12  Access and Authentication Control

• Control user access through roles and permissions
• Configure and manage the ESXi firewall
• Configure ESXi lockdown mode
• Integrate ESXi with Active Directory

13  Basic Troubleshooting

• Basic Commands of ESXi server for troubleshooting
• Log files of ESXi , Virtual Center Server and VMWare update Manager
• VMware core dump collector 
• VMware log collector

15  P2V

• Physical to virtual 

16 New features of vsphere 6.0

CISCO UCS Course Content L1 & L2

1  Why Cisco UCS

2  Architecture Cisco UCS

3  Components  Cisco UCS

• Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
• IOM Module 2104 / 2204 / 2208
• Blade Server B 200 M2 / M3 series
• Fabric Interconnect 61XX / 62XX

4  Physical connectivity of Cisco UCS – Live Demo in our Data Center

5  Pool Creation

• UIID Pool
• IP Pool
• MAC Address Pool
• Server Pool
• WWNN Pool
• WWPN Pool

6  Service Profile Creation

7 ESXi installation on UCS blade