VCP – DCV (ESXi)
VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization
In This Lecture
Virtualization Overview
Installing ESXi
Configuring ESXi with DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) Interface
ESXi Shell Commands
What is Virtualization?
In computing, virtualization means to create a virtual version of a device or resource, such as a server,
storage device, network or even an OS where the framework divides the resource into one or more
execution environments.
IT organizations are challenged by the limitations of today’s x86 servers, which are designed to run just
one OS and application at a time. As a result, even small data centers have to deploy many servers, each
operating at just 5 to 15% of capacity-highly inefficient by any standard.
Virtualization uses software to simulate the existence of hardware and create a virtual computer system.
Doing this allows businesses to run more than one virtual system – and multiple OS and applications –
on a single server. This can provide economies of scale and greater efficiency.
Types of Virtualization
1- OS Virtualization
2- Network Virtualization
3- Hardware Virtualization
4- Storage Virtualization
5- Application Virtualization
Virtualization Software Technology Companies – VMWare, Microsoft, Linux, Citrix, Oracle
In this lecture
Introduction to Networking
Adding port groups and VMKernel ports
Network traffic shaping and Load Balancing
Networking
Two types of Networking available in ESXi
1- VM Network Port -> Used to manage normal VM’s traffic
2- VKernel Port -> to manage different ESXi services like management network, VMotion etc.
NIC Teaming, Failover and Load Balancing
NIC Teaming: Including two or more physical NICs in a team to increase the network capacity of a
vSphere standard switch or standard port group.
Failover: order to determine how network traffic is rerouted in case of adaptor failure.
Load Balancing: algorithm to determine how the standard switch distributes the traffic between the
physical NICs in a team.
In This Lecture
Storage
VMFS File System
Configuring iSCSI
Storage Path Selection
NFS Datastores
iSCSI Shared Storage
You can use ESXi with a SAN. Using ESXi together with a SAN provides storage consolidation, improves
reliability and helps with disaster recovery.
NFS Data Store
ESXi can access a NFS volume located on a NAS server, mount the volume, and use it for its storage
needs.
1 If VM is hosted on local data storage than First of all we’ll have to move storage than VM in
terms to migrate the VM.
2 If VM is stored on shared drive then we can move VM directly without moving the storage.
In this lecture
Creating and installing Virtual Machine.
Installing VMware Tools
Virtual Machine Settings
Virtual Machine Snapshots
Virtual Machine Settings for performance
Virtual Machines
VM is an emulation of a computer system. VMs are based on computer architectures and provide
functionality of physical computer.
Requirements -
1- Window Server 2012 (DC) – Minimum 2 GB RAM
2- Window Server 2012 (Vcenter Server install on it) – Minimum 8 GB RAM
Go to DNS Manager in (2). Create forward Lookup zone – New Host (A or AAAA)
Create reverse lookup and update it from it’s property.
In this lecture
- vCenter Server Settings
- Roles and Permissions
- Configuring Alarms
- Deploying Virtual Machines from templates
