EMC VCE Vblock Systems Administration and Management (EMCVBAM)

LAB 1. Capturing the Vblock System Configuration Baseline

• • Establish a Vblock System Configuration Baseline
• • UCS Manager GUI: Capture Compute Resource Configuration
• • UCS Manager CLI: Capture Compute Resource Configuration
• • EMC Unisphere for VNX: Capture VNX Storage Configuration Information
• • Navisphere CLI: Capture VNX Storage Configuration using
• • Solutions Enabler CLI: Capture VMAX Storage Configuration (Optional)
• • NX-OS CLI for MDS Switch: Capture Storage Area Network (SAN) Configuration
• • NX-OS CLI for Nexus 5548: Capture Network Configuration
• • vSphere Web Client: Explore vCenter Configuration
• • Collecting Support Information with VCE Vision and vSphere

LAB 2. VCE Vision: Administration

• • VCE Vision Intelligent Operations Utilization
• • Vision System Library Administration

LAB 3. VCE Vision Plug-in for vCenter

• • Install VCE Vision Plug-in for vCenter

LAB 4. Additional UCS Configuration Options

• • Modifying the time zone setting using UCS Manager
• • Adding a network time protocol server using UCS Manager

LAB 5. Monitoring for Component Errors or Failures

• • Vblock System Events
• • Log Browser
• • UCS Fault Detection
• • Storage Alerts

LAB 6. Vblock System Assurance

• • Running Compliance Scans
• • Installing New Certification Matrixes
• • Installing Optional components in a Compliance Scan
• • Installing the latest VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 patch

LAB 7. Proactive Monitoring

• • Validating SNMP Setting within the UCS
• • Validating SNMP on the MDS switches
• • Validating SNMP on Nexus 5K Switches
• • Validating SNMP on VNX
• • Validating SNMP trap forwarding in EMC Unisphere
• • Configure UCS Threshold Policies
• • Syslog Management
• • Using VCE Vision SNMP in Network Management Systems
• • Testing System Library Configuration

LAB 8. Service Profile Templates and Service Profiles

• • Modifying an Initial Service Profile Template
• • Modifying the Service Profile by Bind to an Initial Service Profile Template
• • Cloning a Service Profile to an Updating Service Profile Template
• • Modifying an Updating Service Profile Template and the Bound Service Profile

LAB 9. UCS Manager: Expanding Address and ID Pools

• • UUID Pool
• • Expand MAC Address Pool
• • Expand WWNN Address Pools
• • Expand the WWPN Pool

LAB 10. Managing Boot Devices and Paths

• • MDS NX-OS CLI: WWPN Verification
• • UCS Manager: New Boot Policy (VNX)
• • Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage - New Initiators
• • Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage – Storage Groups
• • Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage - Creating a boot LUN

LAB 11. UCS Manager: Create a Service Profile from Scratch

• • Creating a New Service Profile
• • Associate a new service profile
• • Installing ESX-i
• • Restore Original Service Profile

LAB 12. Deploying Virtual Machines

• • Creating a New Datastore
• • Provision an Additional LUN
• • Create a New Data Store
• • Creating a Virtual Machine
• • Creating a New VM in vSphere Web Client
• • Accessing the VM
• • Capacity Management
• • VMware Capacity Monitoring
• • Monitoring Storage
• • Monitor a Storage Pool
• • Monitoring a RAID group
• • Capacity Expansion
• • Expand A Storage Pool
• • Expand an Existing LUN
• • Expand a Data Store
• • Template Creation and Usage
• • Creating a VM Template in vSphere Web Client
• • Creating a VM from a Template
• • Accessing the VM
• • VLAN Creation
• • Add a VLAN on UCS
• • Adding a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus 5000
• • Adding a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus 1000V
• • Adding the VLAN to VMware Virtual Switch
• • Changing the VLAN for the Application VMs

LAB 13. Creating NFS Stores

• • Configuring advanced settings for VMware vSpere ESXi 5.1
• • Configure File System and NFS Exports
• • ESXi NFS Configuration
• • VM Access to the NFS File System
• • Finding the NFS VLAN
• • Adding a New Interface To VNX
• • Create new network in vSphere
• • Create new NIC the Application VM
• • Create The NFS Mount on the VM

LAB 14. Managing CIFS

• • Creating a CIFS Server
• • Create a Volume
• • Creating a File System Pool
• • Creating a CIFS file system
• • Mount a File System on the CIFS Server in VNX
• • Test the CIFS File System on your Management Workstation
• • Mount CIFS on VM

LAB 15. Protecting Vblock System Metadata

• • VCE Vision Configuration Backup
• • VCE Vision Configuration Restoration
• • VCE Vision Interface to Vblock System Configuration
• • Backup of UCS Manager
• • Backup of the Nexus 5k Switch
• • Backup of the MDS Switch

LAB 16. Protecting Vblock System Production Data

• • Protection in Unisphere

LAB 17. Securing the Vblock System

• • Security
• • vCenter Password Retention
• • VCE Vision Appliance and Central Authorization
• • Adjusting Syslog maximum log file size
• • Securing a New VLANs with Roles
• • Creating a QoS Policy on the Nexus 1000v

LAB 18. Trusted Multi-tenant in a Vblock System

• • Trusted Multi-Tenancy
• • Create Admin Account
• • Create Sub-Organization
• • Segregated Storage
• • Create a Segregated Storage Pool on EMC VNX
• • Segregate UCS Compute Environment
• • Segregate vSphere Access