PCA 614 - VMware Virtualization and Cloud Computing Certification - HYB

5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to teach the student to install, configure, manage, maintain, and troubleshoot a virtual network infrastructure/cloud platform using VMware vSphere. Students will learn to install and configure virtual machines, networks, and hard disks on datacenter and cloud servers. This course helps prepare students for the VMware VCA and VCP certification exams. Topics to be covered include principles of cloud computing and virtualization; components of a datacenter; virtual machines, networks, and switches; storage area networks and virtual hard disks; fault tolerance; security scalability; performance monitoring and optimization; information system evaluation; and datacenter design.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. demonstrate the ability to install datacenter and cloud servers,
2. create and configure virtual machines,
3. demonstrate the ability to migrate and clone virtual machines,
4. demonstrate the ability to install and configure operating systems,
5. demonstrate the ability to configure virtual switches,
6. determine security requirements and configure security parameters,
7. demonstrate the ability to install and configure storage area networks (SAN’s) and virtual hard disks,
8. determine whether virtualization is applicable to a given information systems scenario,
9. monitor and analyze system performance,
10. analyze system requirements,
11. design a virtual network infrastructure, and
12. implement a virtual network infrastructure.