Introduction to VMware
2h 5mBeginner2024-12-11
Authors

Imran Afzal
IT Professional, Entrepreneur, and Best-Selling Online Instructor
Course details
Virtualization has quickly become one of the most important technologies in the world. It allows you to better manage your workloads by radically transforming traditional computing to make it more scalable. But have you ever thought about how virtualization actually works? In this introductory course, instructor Imran Afzal gives you a basic overview of this technology as he demonstrates how to leverage the various products offered by VMware, a leader in virtualization management software.
Learn more about the skills you need to be an effective system administrator in a virtual environment. Explore VMware products, how they work, core concepts, and why virtualization is so advantageous for IT professionals in today’s hybridized, technological landscape. Discover the different components of the VMware vSphere environment, testing your new virtual management skills along the way in your very own vSphere lab.
Learn more about the skills you need to be an effective system administrator in a virtual environment. Explore VMware products, how they work, core concepts, and why virtualization is so advantageous for IT professionals in today’s hybridized, technological landscape. Discover the different components of the VMware vSphere environment, testing your new virtual management skills along the way in your very own vSphere lab.
Skills covered
vSphereVMwareVirtualizationIntroduction toNetwork and System Administration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Getting started with VMware
1. Basics of Virtualization
- 02 - What is virtualization
- 03 - Types of virtualization
- 04 - Understanding virtualization terms
- 05 - Advantages of virtualization
- 06 - Limitation of virtualization
- 07 - Virtualization vs. cloud
- 08 - Introduction to VMware
- 09 - Different products of VMware
2. Lab Setup
- 10 - Lab design and prerequisites
- 11 - Download, install, and manage VMware Workstation
- 12 - Introduction to hypervisor and its role in VMware
- 13 - Download ESXi and create a new VM
- 14 - Install and configure ESXi
3. vSphere ESXi Management
- 15 - Access ESXi through vSphere (web client)
- 16 - Access ESXi through SSH
- 17 - Create a new VM on vSphere environment
- 18 - Download and install OS on vSphere VM
4. Managing Virtual Machines
- 19 - Basic VM management
- 20 - Snapshot and cloning
- 21 - VM resouce management
- 22 - Backup and recovery options in VMware
Conclusion
- 23 - Additional resources
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