VMWare ESXI Real World-hands-on training for beginners

Name: VMWare ESXI Real World-hands-on training for beginners
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Created byRyan O'Connell

Last updated 4/2022

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What you'll learn

IT Engineers who want learn VMWare ESXi for their organizations
You will learn to understand on what's needed to prep your VMWare ESXi.
You learn the basic of VMWare ESXi to manage and deploy successfully in your organization
After this course short basic course you will have knowledge and know how to successfully manage and deploy VMWare ESXi environment.

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 19m total length

What is VMWare ESXi10:34
Learn how VMware ESXi, the bare metal hypervisor in the VMware vSphere platform, runs virtual machines with datastores, VMFS, traffic shaping, memory ballooning, and role-based access.
Install VMWare Workstation - Prep for ESXi deployment2:30
Install VMware Workstation to prepare ESXi deployment; download, install, enable enhanced keyboard drivers, manage licensing, and use VMware Workstation to run ESXi as a lab hypervisor.
Install ESXi into VMWare Workstation6:48
Create a virtual machine in VMware Workstation, assign 2 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, and a 20 GB disk, mount the ESXi ISO, install ESXi, and access it by IP.
Connect to the ESXI Console (Walkthrough and upload an ISO to the datastore)7:09
Connect to the ESXi console via a web browser, create and manage datastores, upload ISO images to the datastore, and prepare virtual machines for installation.
Add a Datastore for VM images in ESXi5:30
Upload a data store to the ESXi console and create a 90 GB datastore named datastore production for VM images and ISOs. Power on the host and verify storage.
Deploy a Windows 10 VM in ESXi using the console9:53
Create and install a Windows 10 VM in ESXi via the console, selecting the ISO, data store, CPU, and RAM to complete a lab-ready setup.
Deploy a Linux VM is ESXi using the console8:54
Deploy a Linux Mint 64-bit VM in VMware ESXi using the console, create the VM on a data store, and boot from the iso.
Creating and working with Snapshots in ESXi using the console7:54
Create and manage ESXi snapshots via the console to protect VMs, restore to previous states, and explore storage and backup and replication tools.
Install VMWare Tools on a VM in ESXi4:46
Install VMware tools on a running virtual machine in ESXi to boost performance, enable seamless copy-paste between host and guest, update drivers, and streamline the VM experience.
How to Delete a VM in ESXi using the console7:07
Learn to monitor ESXi host resources and virtual machines, manage storage, review tasks and logs, and safely delete or unregister a VM from the console.
Add a user account to ESXi4:11
Add a new user in VMware ESXi, then assign an admin role to grant permissions, enabling login and management of virtual machines; you can also remove users as needed.
Bonus-lab - Export and import a VM into ESXi4:36
Export a Windows 10 virtual machine to an OVA from ESXi and import it later by deploying from the file, using drag‑and‑drop, configuring network and storage as a thick VM.

Requirements

A basic knowledge and understanding of virtualization

Description

About this course

This course teaches you to manage virtual machines in a VMware vSphere environment. vSphere is a software suite that includes components like ESXi.

You should have a basic understanding of computers. You should know how to download and install a program in Windows and some basic knowledge of system administration (configuring IP addresses, connecting to the Internet, installing Windows, etc.). If you don’t have much experience with virtualization.

A virtual machine is a software computer that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications. The hypervisor serves as a platform for running virtual machines and allows for the consolidation of computing resources.

Each virtual machine contains its own virtual, or software-based, hardware, including a virtual CPU, memory, hard disk, and network interface card.

ESXi is the hypervisor in a vSphere environment. The hypervisor is installed on physical or virtual hardware in a virtualized data center, and acts as a platform for virtual machines. The hypervisor provides physical hardware resources dynamically to virtual machines to support the operation of the virtual machines. The hypervisor allows virtual machines to operate with a degree of independence from the underlying physical hardware. For example, a virtual machine can be moved from one physical host to another, or its virtual disks can be moved from one type of storage to another, without affecting the functioning of the virtual machine.

This tutorial is designed for people with some experience in the world of virtualization. Although the course presumes some knowledge about computer systems in general, it is customized for beginners. This course can also be used in preparation for the VCP-DCV (VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization) certification.

Virtualization is awesome, it’s been the standard for enterprises for many years and although containers are gaining interest, virtual machines remain the go-to for any business; you’d be either crazy or incompetent not to go down this route in most scenarios. This post will go through the very basics of setting up and using ESXi.

There are many ways to virtualize, some free and some not, but in this post I will be going through one in particular, VMware’s ESXi. ESXi is a type 1 hypervisor, meaning it has access to the hardware it’s running on, and the virtual machines running directly on top of the hypervisor. A type 2 hypervisor is one that has an OS between it and the hardware, for example, VMware Workstation running on Windows. There really is nothing wrong with running VMs inside of Windows, however, to get the full performance of the machine and not have any interference it is best to run a type 1 hypervisor to remove the intermediate OS level in-between.

Who this course is for:

Beginner engineers who want to learn VMWare ESXi