Description

This hands-on training course equips system administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in building and running a highly available VMware® vSphere™ 4 virtual infrastructure.

Objectives

• List the components of business continuity
• Describe Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 cluster configurations
• Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster using nondefault options
• Deploy fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Deploy VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat

Prerequisites

Completion of the VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage course or the VMware vSphere 4: What’s New course, or have prior experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter products.

Who Should Attend

System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to ensure the availability of their existing vSphere deployments.

• Module 1: Course Introduction
• Module 2: Business Continuity
  • Overview of vSphere features for high availability, fault tolerance, data protection, and disaster recovery
• Module 3: Virtual Machine Clustering
  • vSphere general requirements for Microsoft failover clusters
  • Overview of the supported Microsoft failover cluster configurations
• Module 4: VMware High Availability Clusters
  • VMware HA advanced parameters affecting slot size
  • Deploying different admission control policies
  • Configuring redundant heartbeat networks and isolation test addresses
• Module 5: VMware Fault Tolerance
  • Overview of FT prerequisites and FT operation
  • FT best practices
  • Configuring, monitoring, and testing a fault-tolerant virtual machine
• Module 6: VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • Overview of vCenter Server Heartbeat operation
  • Installing and configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • Failover and switchover with vCenter Server Heartbeat
  • Monitoring vCenter Server Heartbeat