Private Cloud - Datacenter Virtualization Solutions

Corso sulla virtualizzazione della durata di 5 giorni che ha lo scopo di individuare metodologie, criteri e l’approccio per la progettazione di un data center virtualizzato, usando le soluzioni proposte dai principali vendor del mercato: Microsoft, VMware e Citrix.

Il corso discute i benefici e i rischi delle alternative progettuali disponibili e fornisce informazioni utili a chi deve decidere quale sia la soluzione di virtualizzazione migliore per la propria infrastruttura.

Programma del corso:

1. Planning a Virtualization Strategy

· Understanding Virtualization Levels

· Defining the Case for Virtualization

· Reviewing Virtualization Technologies

· Understanding Licensing Options

2. Designing a Virtualization Platform Infrastructure and High-Availability Strategy using Hyper-V

· Defining Server Virtualization Scenarios

· Defining Hyper-V Base Architectures

· Performing a Pre-Design Discovery

· Designing a Server Virtualization Infrastructure

· Designing the Hyper-V Host Architecture

· Designing the Virtual Machine Architecture

· Sizing a Hyper-V Host Farm

3. Microsoft Hyper-V

· Hardware requirements

· System configuration

· Host operating system preparation

· Microsoft Hyper-V installation

· Managing Microsoft Hyper-V

· Using the management console

· Configuring Hyper-V settings

· Adding virtual disks

· Managing virtual networks

· Creating virtual machines

· Installing guest operating systems

· Configuring Virtual Machine Integration Services

· Using differencing disks

· Enabling undo disks

· Compacting and optimizing disks

· Advanced networking

4. Microsoft Hyper-V in the Datacenter

· Using a Storage Area Network (SAN)

· Virtual machine clustering

· Backing up virtual machines

· Disaster recovery

· Virtual Machine migration

5. Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

· Using the Microsoft SCVMM management console

· Creating Virtual Machines and Virtual Hard Drives

· Virtual Machine Settings, Snapshots, and High Availability

· Migration of Virtual Machines to Hyper-V

· Managing the SCVMM Virtual Machine Image Library and Checkpoints

6. Designing a Virtualization Platform Infrastructure and High-Availability Strategy using vSphere

· ESX/ESXi Host Design

· Identify useful information for making host design decisions

· Analyze best practices and host design

· Identify useful information for making vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design decisions

· Analyze best practices and network design

· Analyze best practices and storage design

· Analyze best practices and virtual machine design

· Analyze best practices and management and monitoring design

7. VMware vSphere

· Hardware requirements

· System configuration

· Installing VMware vSphere

· ESX and ESXi

· Using the VMware vSphere Client

· Configuring VMware vSphere settings

· Adding virtual disks

· Managing virtual networks

· Creating virtual machines

· Installing guest operating systems

· Configuring VMware Tools

8. VMware vCENTER

· Hardware requirements

· System configuration

· Installing VMware vCenter

· Using the management console

· Configuring vCenter settings

· Adding virtual disks

· Managing virtual networks

· Creating virtual machines

· Virtual Machine Settings, Snapshots, and High Availability

· Migration of Virtual Machines to vSphere

9. VMware vSphere in the Datacenter

· Using a Storage Area Network (SAN)

· Virtual machine clustering

· Backing up virtual machines

· Virtual Machines High Availability

10. Citrix XenServer

· Hardware requirements

· System configuration

· Installing Citrix XenServer

· Using the Citrix XenServer Client

· Configuring Citrix XenServer settings

· Adding virtual disks

· Managing virtual networks

· Creating virtual machines

· Installing guest operating systems

11. Citrix XenCenter

· Installing Citrix XenCenter

· Using the management console

· Configuring XenCenter settings

· Adding virtual disks

· Managing virtual networks

· Creating virtual machines

· Installing guest operating systems

· Virtual Machine Settings, Snapshots, and High Availability

· Migration of Virtual Machines to XenCenter