Buy and Download - Lynda.com Up and Running with VMware vSphere 6

2015
Lynda
Brandon Neill
1:28
English

Virtualization and cloud computing are the future of our IT infrastructure. It's important for system administrators who want to succeed to have a strong foundation in virtualization technologies, particularly in the popular virtual environment VMware vSphere, including the ESXi hypervisor and vCenter Server. With vSphere, you can create virtual machines that bypass the need for additional expensive hardware and provide features not available on a physical system—a perfect setup for exploring new technologies and setting up test environments.
This course teaches the basics of installing, configuring, and maintaining vSphere 6, including installation of the ESXi hypervisor and vCenter Server using a pre-created environment called AutoLab. Following lab creation, Brandon Neill introduces the core components of vSphere (ESXi and vCenter) and shows how to configure storage and networking. Finally, he runs through some typical virtual-machine management tasks, such as creating a virtual machine manually vs. creating one with templates and clones, working with snapshots, and performing a vMotion migration.

Introduction
Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
Why virtual machines?
1. Creating a vSphere Environment with AutoLab
Building a lab environment with AutoLab
Downloading necessary software
Preparing VMware Workstation and deploying prebuilt VMs
Setting up the domain controller VM
Installing the ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
2. Introducing ESXi and vCenter
Accessing the ESXi host from the console
Using the Windows vSphere client
Using the web client
Adding an ESXi host
3. vSphere Networking
Understanding vSphere networking basics
Configuring lab networking
4. vSphere Storage
Understanding vSphere storage basics
Configuring iSCSI
Creating datastores
5. Virtual Machine Management
Creating a virtual machine
Installing the operating system and VMware tools
Creating a guest OS customization specification
Performing a cloning operation
Using templates
Performing a vMotion migration
Understanding snapshots
Conclusion
Goodbye