Stefan Bucsics, Gerhard Vitovec TGM Wien 20

VMware vSphere5 – Workshop AINAC 2012 

Stefan Bucsics, Gerhard Vitovec 

TGM Wien 20 

VMware vSphere 5 – Workshop am TGM Wien, 14. März 2012, Stefan Bucsics & Gerhard Vitovec 

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Introduction to Virtualization 


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What Is VMware vSphere? 

An infrastructure virtualization 

suite that does the following: 

Provides virtualization, 

management, resource 

optimization, application 

availability, and operational 

automation capabilities 

Aggregates physical hardware 

resources and provides virtual 

resources to the datacenter 

Existing Applications Future Applications 

App App App App App App App App 

Application 

Services 

Infrastructure 

Services 

VMware vCenter Suite 

VMware vSphere 

Availability Security Scalability 


vMotion® 

vSphere Storage 

vMotion 

vSphere HA 

Fault Tolerance 

Data Recovery 

Compute 

VMware ESXi 

DRS and 

VMware DPM 

Memory Overcommit 

VMware vShield 

Zones 

VMware VMsafe® 

VMFS 

Thin Provisioning 

Storage I/O 

Control 

DRS 

Hot Add 

Storage Network 

Distributed 

Switch 

Network I/O 

Control 

Private Cloud Resource Pools Public Cloud 


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Physical Infrastructure 

applications 

operating system 

physical host 

iSCSI 

storage 

Ethernet 

NFS 

storage 

Network 

Fibre 

Channel 

Fibre Channel 

storage 


4

virtual 

machines 

hypervisor 

ESXi host 

Virtual Infrastructure 


iSCSI 

storage 


Ethernet 

NFS 

storage 

Network 


Fibre 

Channel 

Fibre Channel 

storage 



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Resource Sharing 


x86 architecture 


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Virtual Machine Hardware 


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Virtual Machine Files 

VM 

Folder 

� Configuration file 

� Swap files 

� BIOS file 

� Log files 

� Virtual disk files 


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Overview of ESXi 


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Configuring ESXi 

The Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) is similar to the BIOS of a 

computer with a keyboard-only user interface. 


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VMware vSphere User Interfaces 


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User Interfaces 

Your 

desktop 

vSphere Client 

Web Client 

vCenter 

Server 


ESXi 

host 

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Using the vSphere Client 

The vSphere Client is an 

interface used to remotely 

connect to an ESXi host 

or a vCenter Server from 

a Windows PC. 

On the vSphere Client 

login screen, enter: 

� Host name or IP address 

of ESXi host or vCenter 

Server 

� User name 

� Password for that user 

(Optional) Use your Windows 

session credentials. 


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vCenter Server Architecture 


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vCenter Server: Management Platform 

vCenter Server is a service that 

acts as a central administration 

point for ESXi hosts and their 

virtual machines, connected on a 

network: 

Up to 1,000 hosts per vCenter 

Server instance 

Up to 10,000 powered-on virtual 

machines per vCenter Server 

instance 

VMware 

vSphere® 

VMware vCenter Server 

Manage 

VMware 

vSphere 


VMware 

vSphere 

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vCenter Architecture 

ESXi host 

ESXi host ESXi host 


* 

* NIS also supported 

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Introduction to vNetwork Standard 

Switches 


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Standard Virtual Switch Components 


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Storage Concepts 


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Storage Overview 

VMware® 

ESXi 

hosts 

datastore 

types 

storage 

technology 

Direct 

Attached 

VMware vSphere VMFS 

Fibre 

Channel 

FCoE iSCSI 

NFS 

File 

system 

NAS 


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Key Points 

Using virtual machines solves many datacenter problems. 

Virtual machines are hardware independent. 

Virtual machines share the physical resources of the ESXi host on which they 

reside. 

A virtual machine is a set of files that are easy transfer and backup. 

Virtual machine files are encapsulated into a folder and placed on a datastore. 

ESXi runs directly on the host. 

VMware vSphere abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and networking for virtual 

machine use. 

Questions? 

@ TGM 


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Appendix 

Labs 


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Lab 1 (optional) & Lab 2 

In lab 1, you will install and use vSphere Client and the vSphere 

Web Client application. 

1. Access your student desktop system 

2. Install vSphere Client 

3. Install the vSphere Web Client application 

In lab 2, you will configure the ESXi host. 

1. Connect to an ESXi host with the vSphere Client. 

2. View host hardware configuration. 

3. Configure DNS and routing information for an ESXi host. 

4. Configure the ESXi host as an NTP client. 


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Lab 3 

In this lab, you will create, import, and prepare virtual machines 

for use. 

1. Create a virtual machine. 

2. Install a guest operating system in a virtual machine. 

3. Identify a virtual machine’s disk format and usage statistics. 

4. Install VMware Tools on a virtual machine installed with a Windows 

operating system. 

5. Enable time synchronization between a virtual machine and an 

ESXi host 

6. Copy programs from CDROM to your virtual machine. 


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Lab 4 

In this lab, you will perform basic vCenter Server inventory 

operations. 

1. Connect to the vCenter Server appliance with the vSphere Client. 

2. Register VMware vSphere Web Client with vCenter Server appliance 

(optional). 


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Lab 5 

In this lab, you will perform basic vCenter Server inventory 

operations. 

1. Create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object. 

2. Create vCenter Server inventory folder objects. 

3. Add your ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory. 


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Lab 6 

In this lab, you will create a standard virtual switch and port group. 

1. View the current standard virtual switch configuration. 

2. Create a standard virtual switch with a virtual machine port group. 

3. Attach your virtual machine to a virtual switch port group. 


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Lab 7 

In this lab, you will configure access to iSCSI and NFS datastore. 

1. Add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch. 

2. Configure the iSCSI software adapter. 

3. Configure access to iSCSI and/or NFS datastores. 

4. View iSCSI and NFS storage information. 


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