VMware ESX Server: Advanced Features
Part 3 of 3 of the VMware ESX Server series focuses on advanced features.
What you'll learn
Part 3 of 3 of the VMware ESX Server series focuses on advanced features. 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 is Storage VMotion (SVMotion)? 2m
- Storage VMotion - How It Works? 1m
- How Can Storage VMotion (SVMotion) Help You? 3m
- What is Required to Use Storage VMotion? 1m
- How to Use SVMotion at the Command Line Using RCLI? 3m
- Installing the SVMotion Plug-In 2m
- Demo: Moving Live VM Storage Using SVMotion 8m
- What We Covered 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Backup and Disaster Recovery for Virtual Machines 2m
- Backing up the VM within the Guest OS 2m
- Backing up the VM within the Host OS 4m
- SCSI Device and SAN Backups 1m
- VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) 3m
- How does VCB Work? 3m
- VCB Diagram 3m
- VCB Requirements 2m
- What is the Process of Using VCB? 1m
- Installing VCB 12m
- Using VCB CLI Commands 2m
- Scenario: Creating VCB Backup Scripts 5m
- File Level Mount 7m
- Image Level Mount 10m
- What we Covered and What you Should Know 2m
- Comparing VIMA and RCLI 3m
- Logging Into VIMA and RCLI 3m
- VMware Health Check Report 7m
- Creating and Running Pearl Script for Health Report 4m
- Running esxtop on VMware ESXi using RCLI or VIMA with resxtop.sh 3m
- Backup and Restore VMware ESXi Config with vicfg-cfgbackup.pl 2m
- Move Virtual Disks While the Guest Runs Using svmotion.pl 1m
- Managing Networking with Commands 5m
- Storage Management with Commands 2m
- System Management with Commands 4m
- Other Management Commands 2m
- Managing VM Guests with vmware-cmd 7m
- Managing Virtual Disk and File System Storage Using vmkfstools 4m
- Things to Remember! 2m
- What We Covered 2m
- Introduction 1m
- What is the VI-Perl Toolkit and How Can It Help You? 1m
- Do You Need to Be a Perl Programmer to Use VI-Perl? 5m
- Installing the VI-Perl Toolkit 5m
- Using the VI-Perl Toolkit to Administer and ESX Server 2m
- Authentication Methods 2m
- Using Session File Authentication 2m
- Using Common VI-Perl Commands 4m
- guestinfo.pl Command 2m
- snapshotmanager.pl Command 3m
- vidiscovery.pl Command 3m
- vmcontrol.pl Command 4m
- What We Covered 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