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Technologies Net Alliance
(VMware Professional Solution Provider, VMware IT Academy)

Workshop on Data Center Virtualization using

VMware vSphere 5.x
(November 30^th & December 1 ~ 2, 2012)

Technologies Net Alliance is organizing a hands-on workshop on deployment, configuration and Management of VMware vSphere 5.0 to Virtualize Enterprise Data Centers. Virtualization is being adopted to slash power and cooling costs, reduce the need for expensive datacenter expansion, increase operational efficiency, and capitalize on the higher availability and increased flexibility that comes with running virtual workloads. The goal is for IT to be well-positioned to rapidly respond to ever-changing business needs. You will develop and reinforce your skills in hands-on labs, with lab time and lecture evenly split throughout the workshop. The workshop is based on ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0, with an overview of vCloud Director

Workshop Outline:
Introductory and advanced sessions on

· Install and configure ESXi with vCenter Server

· Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage

· Deploy and manage virtual machines

· Manage User Access using VMware Infrastructure

· Increase scalability using vCenter Server

· Monitor resource usage using vCenter Server

· Apply patches using vCenter Update Manager

· Manage higher availability and data protection using vCenter Server

· Deployment of Virtual SAN Solutions & Gain overview on VMware vCloud Director

Who should attend?

Systems Administrators, Project Managers, Solutions Architects, Developers, Designers, IT Managers, IT Directors and operators responsible for ESXi, ESX, and/or vCenter Server. Students who can benefit from this course are application developers, database administrators, system integrators, and system administrators who are interested in learning how to install, configure, or maintain virtual servers, applications, databases in a cloud computing environment

About Trainer:

Holds VMware Certified Professional on vSphere (VCP5)/ (VCP4) and many other industry dominating IT certifications, which include MCITP, MCTS, VTSP4/VTSP5,VSP4/VSP5, Member (VMware Beta Programs). He has more than 08 years of experience in IT industry, which includes providing consultancy to Telecom/IT companies. He is Sr. Consultant (Data Center Solutions) at TNA.

Workshop Schedule:

Time	Activity
Friday 30-12-2012
16:30-17:00	Arrival of Participants and Registration Kit distribution
17:00-17:10	Tilawat
17:10-17:20	Opening Remarks
17:20-17:50	Discussion of virtualization and vSphere components
17:50-18:50	Installation & Configuration of ESXi
18:50-19:00	Tea Break
19:00-21:00	Install & configure vCenter Server using vSphere Client
Saturday 01-12-2012
09:00-09:10	Tilawat
9:10-11:00	Configuration of vNetwork standard & distributed switches, NIOC & Network Pools
11:00-11:10	Tea Break
11:10-13:00	vSphere vStorage Management, SIOC, VAAI & Creation of Virtual SAN
13:00-14:00	Lunch and Prayer Break
14:00-15:00	Deploying virtual Machines
15:00-16:00	Controlling user access in vCenter through roles and permissions
16:00-17:00	Resource Monitoring Workload assessment, using vCenter Server
Sunday 02-12-2012
09:00-09:05	Tilawat
9:05-11:00	VMware vMotion™ migrations, Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
11:30-11:10	Tea Break
11:00-13:50	Setup of a VMware High Availability (HA), cluster Backup and recovery of virtual machines using vCenter Data Recovery-I
13:00-14:00	Lunch and Prayer Break
14:00-15:30	Setup of a VMware High Availability (HA), cluster Backup and recovery of virtual machines using vCenter Data Recovery-II
15:30-16:00	Configuration Management Patching using vCenter Update Manager
16:00-17:00	VMware & Cloud Computing (vCloud Director, vChargeback, vShield Manager)

Registration Details:

Workshop Fee:

Professionals: Rs. 18,000/-

Academia: Rs. 12,000/- (*Students must show their Student identity)

TNA Students Rs. 10,000/-

Group Discount*: (On paying for a group of 3 professional participants, claim 50% discount on the 4^th)

All participants are required to submit the registration along with fee as per the instructions given at the following site not later than 29^th NOV, 2012.

For details www.tna.edu.pk , www.facebook.com/technologiesnetalliance

For urgent queries: saqib@tna.edu.pk | +92 333 52 77 570 | +92 51 227 8615

TNA Technologies Net Alliance, 12, Begum Sarfraz Iqbal Road,

G-6/4, Islamabad Pakistan

What is included in the fee?

Hands-on training, a comprehensive course material, lunch & snacks for all training days.

Detailed Workshop Content:

Module 1: Discussion of virtualization and vSphere components
Module 2: Configuration of ESXi 5.x
Module 3: Install and configure vCenter Server 5.x, and use the vSphere Client to manage vCenter.
Module 4: Configuration of vNetwork standard and distributed switches, Network I/O Control, network connections, and port groups
Module 5: Storage management technologies with Storage I/O Control & openfiler as iSCSI Target Server.
Module 6: Deploy virtual machines using templates, VMware vCenter Converter, Guided Consolidation Modifying, managing, and migrating virtual machines
Module 7: Access & Authentication Control, Controlling user access through roles and permissions
Module 8: Resource Monitoring Workload assessment, monitoring using vCenter Server
Module 9: VMware vMotion™ migrations, Setup of resource pools and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster
Module 10: Setup of a VMware High Availability (HA), cluster Backup and recovery of virtual machines using vCenter Data Recovery
Module 11: Configuration Management Patching using vCenter Update Manager
Module 12: Installing ESX
Module 13: VMware & Cloud Computing