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VFrame Data Center Integration and Operations (VINT) v1.2 3 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Module 1: VFrame DC Overview

Lesson 1: Service-Oriented Provisioning

  • Dedicated infrastructurre
  • Mature Processes
  • Logical vs Physical View
  • The Service View

Lesson 2: Product Capabilities

  • Service Provisioning
  • Deployment Process Overview
  • Resource Pooling
  • Template-Based Provisioning
  • Automating Operational Process
  • Supporting Third-Party Devices
  • Macros Overview
  • Enterprise Management System Integration

Lesson 3: VFrame DC Deployment Roadmap

  • Discover, Design, Deploy and Drive
  • Discovery Overview
  • Design Overview
  • Deployment Overview
  • Operations Overview

Module 2: Discovery

Lesson 1: Starting VFrame

  • Network Setup
  • Completing the Initial Configuration

Lesson 2: Understanding Device Discovery

  • Discovering Network Resources
  • Discovering Server Devices
  • Discovering Storage Devices
  • Managing Device Credentials

Lesson 3: Discovering Network Devices

  • Expected Network Setup
  • Managing Network Devices
  • Managing Firewall Services Modules
  • Managing Content Switching Modules

Lesson 4: Discovering Servers

  • LOM Manager Templates
  • LOM Managers
  • Discovering LOM Managers
  • DHCP Relay

Lesson 5: Managing Images

  • Image Management
  • Creating Images
  • Using Sysprep Files

Lesson 6: Discovering Storage Devices

  • Storage Templates
  • Storage Array Mode
  • Fabric Mode
  • Discovering Storage Managers
  • Managing NAS Devices
  • LUN Masking and Mapping

Module 3: Design

Lesson 1: Using Resource Pools

  • Resource Pooling
  • Static and Dynamic Resource Pools

Lesson 2: Understanding Templates

  • Understanding Templates
  • Basic Template Components

Lesson 3: Designing Service Templates

  • Service Template Elements
  • Service Template States
  • Service Network Template Change Control
  • Creating a Service Template
  • Block Variables

Lesson 4: Deploying a Basic Service Network

  • Service Network Design Overview
  • Service Network Design Elements
  • Pool Selection
  • Server Group Definition
  • Variables and Aliases
  • Basic Deployment Workflow
  • Understanding Network Operations

Module 4: Deployment

Lesson 1: Operating Service Networks

  • Service Network Operations Control
  • Virtual Resource State Review
  • Service Network State Review
  • Testing a Service Network
  • Troubleshooting Service Network Operations and Design

Lesson 2: Managing Users, Roles, and Contexts

  • Virtual Contexts
  • The AdminContext
  • Designing User Contexts
  • Configuring Users and Roles

Lesson 3: Managing the VFrame System

  • Backing Up and Recovering the VFrame Database
  • Configuring System Settings
  • Managing High Availability
  • Using the Command Line

Module 5: Operations

Lesson 1: Managing Faults

  • Faults and Fault States
  • Fault Status Summary Display
  • Resource Health Monitoring

Lesson 2: Reports

  • Understanding Reports
  • Working with Reports
  • Troubleshooting Fault Management and Reporting
Course labs

Lab 1: Discovering and Managing Network Devices
Lab 2: Discovering and Managing Servers
Lab 3: Managing Images
Lab 4: Discovering and Managing Storage Devices
Lab 5: Creating Resource Pools
Lab 6: Importing a Template
Lab 7: Create and Deploy a Service Network
Lab 8: Demonstrating Server Failover
Lab 9: Configure Users and Contexts
Lab 10: Manage VFrame DC
Lab 11: Fault Management and Reporting
Lab 12: Cloning an Existing Service Template
Lab 13: Managing Service Networks


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