VMware ESX Server: Configuring
Part 2 of 3 of the VMware ESX Server series focuses on configuring and managing ESX Server.
What you'll learn
Part 2 of 3 of the VMware ESX Server series focuses on configuring and managing ESX Server. The goal of this course is to help you understand enterprise-level virtualization. By viewing this course, you'll be able to create dynamic and automated enterprise data centers with high levels of performance, scalability, and reliability. Middle to upper level enterprise network administrators, IT professionals, and system administrators with a strong desire to learn VMware ESX Server and VMware Infrastructure are ideal candidates for this course.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- What Does a Running Virtual Guest Machine Look Like? 11m
- Virtual Guest Machine Specifications 3m
- Changing BIOS Settings 6m
- How to Create ISO Images of CD and DVD Installation Media 6m
- How to Create a New VM and Install a Guest OS 10m
- Directions 22m
- Adding or Removing Virtual Hardware 11m
- What is an Appliance? 3m
- Downloading Virtual Machines 4m
- Editing VMX Files Manually 5m
- Transferring Files to Your Server with SCP 3m
- Importing and Exporting VMs 4m
- Download Vyatta form the Virtual Appliance Marketplace 11m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m
- Introduction 2m
- Storage Terminology 7m
- How Does Datastore Help You? 2m
- VMware ESX Storage Options 3m
- What is a VMFS Virtual Disk? 3m
- Larger vs. Smaller VMFS Volumes 2m
- Advantages of Virtual Disks 2m
- Understanding Local Disk Storage 3m
- Fibre Channel (FC) SAN Storage 7m
- iSCSI SAN Storage 5m
- iSCSI Addressing 1m
- NAS NFS Storage 1m
- Comparing Local, iSCSI, FC, and NFS 5m
- Guest OS Disk Adaptor Types 4m
- Snapshots 3m
- VMware ESX Disk Types and Disk Modes 5m
- VMware's Virtual Disk Manager Utility - vmkfstools 4m
- Aligning your VMware ESX Partitions 2m
- Expanding your Guest OS Virtual Disk 3m
- Configuring the Clock, Time zone, NTP Time Synchronization 13m
- Configuring ESX to Work with OpenFiler iSCSI SAN Server 5m
- Configure the OpenFiler Server 9m
- Configure the VMware ESX Server 18m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 4m
- Introduction 1m
- Concepts of ESX Security Design 18m
- Default ESX Security Management Roles 2m
- Ports used by VMware ESX and Virtual Center 4m
- Enabling SSH CLI Access to ESX 7m
- Securing the Command Line Interface 2m
- Securing Guest Virtual Machines 4m
- Scenario - Configuring ESX Server 1m
- Create Administrator Groups and the Machines they Administer 13m
- Test if the Groups Work as Intended 2m
- Set the Help-Desk Group Role 12m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 4m
- Introduction 1m
- Virtual Networking Overview 2m
- Virtual Networking Terms 6m
- Network Diagram 5m
- Virtual Networking Must-Knows 4m
- Different Configuration Scenarios 2m
- Single NIC 1m
- Multiple NICs 1m
- Virtual DMZ / Firewall Network 3m
- Wired Brain's Configuration 17m
- Using VLANs with ESX 8m
- Service Console Command Line Networking Tools 10m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m
- Introduction 1m
- What is Update Manager? 2m
- How Can Update Manager Help You? 4m
- What Can Update Manager Update for You? 3m
- How Does Update Manager Work? 2m
- How to Install VMware Update Manager 2m
- Components of VMware Update Manager 2m
- Verifying Install of the Update Manager Service 2m
- Installing the Update Manager Plug-In 2m
- Configuring and Using Update Manager 10m
- What We Covered 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Select the Right Hardware 4m
- Performance Optimization Recommendations 6m
- Optimizing Memory 4m
- Optimizing the CPU 3m
- How VMware ESX Server Hosts Reclaim Memory 2m
- Review of VMware ESX Performance Monitoring Tools 7m
- VMotion Overview 5m
- ESX Resource Pools 4m
- ESX Clusters Overview 2m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more