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Training Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators – 3 days

Class overview :

This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and 9. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks.

Class goals :

By the end of the course the delegate should be able to administer services with the Service Management Facility, describe features of Multiterabyte UFS, manage patches with the Sun Update Connection Services, configure various security features, create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager, create and manage ZFS file systems, control Log file rotation, manage Flash Archives for installation, install updates with the Live Upgrade feature and describe other differences between Solaris 10 and older Solaris versions.

The delegate will practice:

  • Administer services with the Service Management Facility
  • Control Log file rotation
  • Create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager
  • Create and manage ZFS file systems
  • Manage Flash Archives for installation
  • Install updates with the Live Upgrade feature
  • Configure various security features

Content of Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Service Management Facility (SMF)

  • Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Manage services with various SMF commands

Disk and File Management

  • Identify changes to the format command
  • Implement EFI disk labels
  • Identify changes to the behaviour of the devfsadm command
  • Identify new pseudo file systems
  • Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
  • Describe changes related to logging in UFS
  • Display file activity with fsstat
  • Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable for syslog
  • Log file rotation

Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)

  • Describe Solaris Volume Manager Software RAID concepts
  • Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
  • Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for a file system including root
  • Backup a mirrored volume
  • Build a RAID-5 volume
  • Manage Hot Spares

ZFS

  • Basic Description
  • Requirements
  • Main Features
  • The ZFS Tools
  • Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
  • Managing ZFS File Systems with zfs
  • Installing a ZFS root File System

Software Management

  • State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
  • Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS
  • Describe differences in Jumpstart Server configuration
  • Describe WAN boot installation
  • Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
  • Describe related options with pkgadd and patchadd

Sun Connection Services and Patch Management

  • Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
  • Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command

Managing Flash Archives

  • Describe the Flash installation feature
  • Create a Flash archive
  • Use a Flash archive for installation

Using Live Upagrade

  • Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
  • Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
  • Create an empty alternative boot environment for updating with a Flash Archive
  • Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive

User Management and Security

  • Manage users and groups with the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
  • Manage users and groups with SMC commands
  • Manage password generation
  • Manage user logins for failed attempts

Networking Services

  • Describe differences in managing the DNS (server and client) and LDAP (client) Naming Services
  • Describe the differences in the Network File System (NFS)
  • Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4
  • Describe changes to managing AutoFS

Miscellaneous Features

  • Identify changes in printing services
  • Desktop Printer Management Tool
  • Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 10
  • Describe MPSS (Multiple Page Size Support)
  • System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
  • System Administration with Webmin

Zone (optional topic, depending on time)

  • Basic Description
  • Main Features and Benefits
  • Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
  • Creating Zones (zonecfg, zoneadm, zlogin)
  • Accessing Zones
  • Managing the Zone State
  • Zone Migration
  • Zone System Processes

GRUB (optional topic, depending on time)

  • Booting from an INTEL System with GRUB
  • Booting Procedures with GRUB
  • GRUB Files
  • Modifying the Boot Behaviour
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Training VMware VSphere 5: What’s new – 2 days

Class overview :

This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware vCenter™ Server 5.0 and VMware® ESXi™ 5.0. Topics include VMware vSphere® 5 installation and how to upgrade from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0. vSphere 5.0 is the first version of vSphere to include only the ESXi hypervisor.

Class goals :

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the functions and features in vSphere 5.0 and be able to do the following:

  • List and describe key enhancements in vSphere 5.0
  • Upgrade a deployment from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0
  • Use Image Builder to modify and export an image profile as part of Auto Deploy
  • Use Auto Deploy to Install a stateless ESXi host
  • Manage a version 8 virtual machine with the next-generation Web-based VMware vSphere Client
  • List and describe key networking enhancements, including the ESXi firewall and new features in vNetwork distributed switches
  • Upgrade and manage a VMware vSphere VMFS5 datastore
  • Understand and configure policy-driven storage management
  • Create a datastore cluster and configure Storage DRS
  • Configure a VMware High Availability cluster based on the new Fault Domain Manager agents
  • Use the Linux-based VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Content of VMware vSphere 5: What’s New

Introduction to VMware vSphere 5.0

  • Key enhancements in ESXi, vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere Upgrade Manager
  • Upgrade vSphere components from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.0, including vCenter Server, Update Manager, and ESXi

Virtual Machine Management

  • Describe new virtual machine version 8 hardware features
  • Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation
  • Describe the vCenter Solutions Manager
  • Upgrade a virtual machine to version 8 hardware
  • Install, register, and use the Web-based vSphere Client

Network Management

  • Describe the ESXi firewall
  • Describe new features of vNetwork distributed switches including NetFlow, port mirroring, and Link Layer Discovery Protocol
  • Describe enhancements to network I/O control, including 802.1p priority tagging, user-defined virtual machine resource pools, and the host-based replication traffic pool
  • Configure the ESXi firewall
  • Configure and test port mirroring

Storage Management

  • Describe new storage features, including VMFS5, Fibre Channel over Ethernet software adapters, policy-driven storage management and vStorage API for Storage Awareness, solid-state disk support, and VMware vSphere vStorage Appliance
  • Describe enhanced features, including snapshot support for VMware vSphere Storage vMotion, increased storage performance, and new primitives in the vStorage API for Array Integration
  • Upgrade VMFS3 to VMFS5
  • Create a storage policy

Scalability

  • Scaling enhancements to resource pools and VMware vSphere vMotion
  • Describe Storage DRS operation
  • Create a datastore cluster for Storage DRS
  • Configure Storage DRS

High Availability

  • Describe enhancements to the VMware Fault Tolerance and Enhanced vMotion Compatibility features
  • Describe the operation of VMware HA using the new Fault Domain Manager agents
  • Create a VMware HA cluster

New VMware vSphere Deployment Alternatives

  • Configure the Linux-based vCenter Server Appliance
  • Use Image Builder to create an installation image profile
  • Use Auto Deploy to deploy a stateless ESXi host
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Training VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0: Install, configure, manage – 2 days

Class overview :

This two-day, hands-on training course equips experienced VMware vSphere® administrators with the knowledge to install, configure, and manage VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 5.0. This course also equips vSphere administrators ith the knowledge to assist in disaster planning and to test disaster recovery plans with SRM.

Class goals :

At the end of the course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Install SRM 5.0
  • Configure placeholder datastores
  • Configure inventory mappings in SRM
  • Configure datastore mappings
  • Replicate virtual machines using physical couriering
  • Configure vSphere replication-based protection groups in SRM
  • Create, edit, execute, test, and remove a recovery plan in SRM
  • Reprotect virtual machines
  • Configure SRM alarms
  • Troubleshoot SRM problems

Content of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to Disaster Recovery

  • Introduce disaster recovery terminology and concepts
  • Describe disaster recovery and business continuity planning
  • Use a runbook to guide disaster recovery

Overview and Architecture

  • Describe the SRM architecture and components
  • Discuss the functional differences between SRM and VMware
  • vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware vSphere High Availability
  • List the new features of SRM 5.0

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Planning

  • List the SRM prerequisites checklist
  • Identify and describe SRM site preparation activities, including DNS validation, SRM database requirements, datastore groups requirements, recovery site inventory preparation, and network communication planning

VMware vSphere Replication

  • Describe storage replication using the vRMS appliance
  • List storage replication limitations when using the vRMS appliance

Installation

  • Identify and complete SRM installation tasks
  • Integration with storage arrays using storage replication adapters
  • Configure storage replication
  • List and describe SRM security roles

Establishing the Replication Framework

  • Describe and configure SRM placeholder datastores
  • Configure datastore mappings for vRMS storage replication
  • Describe and configure SRM inventory, network, and datastore mappings

Protection Groups

  • Describe protection groups
  • Configure a protection group to protect virtual machines
  • Describe placeholder virtual machines
  • Create customizations to reconfigure virtual machine network connections after a failover

Recovery Plans

  • Discuss SRM recovery plans
  • List SRM recovery plan steps
  • Create an SRM recovery plan

Alarms and Site Status

  • Describe SRM alarms
  • Describe the available alarm actions
  • Configure an alarm

Failover Testing and Failover

  • Describe failover testing, including its effect on storage and network configuration
  • Test a recovery plan
  • Execute a failover
  • Discuss storage resignaturing

Planned Migration, Reprotect, and Failback

  • Discuss planned migration and how it is different from a failover
  • Execute a planned migration
  • Discuss when and how to reprotect a virtual machine
  • Describe SRM failback

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Logs, Simple Scripts, and Troubleshooting

  • Describe SRM logs
  • Resolve problems with the SRM database
  • Resolve site connection problems
  • Resolve LUN, datastore, and protection group problems
  • Use scripts with SRM
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Formatting reports that function and sizzle – 1 day

Class overview :

This course explains how to format your report using various tools in Crystal Reports XI.

Class goals :

  • Position and size report objects
  • Modify object properties for formatting purposes
  • Use the Format Editor
  • Combine and layer report objects
  • Configure report page and margin properties
  • Link reports
  • Create ToolTips
  • Add lines, boxes, and watermarks to your report

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Formatting Reports that Function and Sizzle

  • Positioning and Sizing Objects
  • The Format Editor
  • Modifying Object Properties
  • Combining and Layering Objects
  • Linking Reports
  • Creating ToolTips
  • Lines, Boxes, and Watermarks
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Manipulating your report data in meaningful ways – 2 days

Class overview :

This course provides an explanation for filtering data on given criteria, sorting data based on field values, and summarizing and subtotaling data.

Class goals :

  • Apply basic and advanced filters
  • Sort records
  • Apply grand totals
  • Apply group totals
  • Apply a group selection and sort
  • Create a running total

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Manipulating Your Report Data in Meaningful Ways

  • Basic filters
  • Advanced filters
  • Sorting records
  • Grand totals
  • Group totals
  • Group selection
  • Running totals
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Selecting and organizing your report data – 2 days

Class overview :

This course provides an introduction to selecting and organizing report data in Crystal Reports XI.

Class goals :

  • Describe the different types of field objects
  • Add groups to your reports
  • Reorder groups
  • Create a drill-down report

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Selecting and Organizing Your Report Data

  • Understanding field objects
  • Grouping report aata
  • Creating drill-down reports
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Report wizards and do it yourself – 2 days

Class overview :

This course explains how to make a connection to OLE DB or ODBC databases using Xtreme Sample Database 11 in Crystal Reports XI along with how to use the Standard Report Creation Wizard.

Class goals :

  • Use the report wizards to create a report.
  • Create a report without the use of a report wizard.

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Report Wizards and Do It Yourself

  • Report wizards
  • Do it yourself reporting
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Selecting just the right data source(s) for your report – 2 days

Class overview :

This course provides an overview of working with data sources, including database drivers, data source selection, and data objects.

Class goals :

  • List commonly used database drivers
  • Select one or more data sources for a report
  • Add data objects to a report
  • Join data objects

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Selecting Just the Right Data Source(s) for Your Report

  • Database drivers
  • Selecting a data source
  • Adding data objects
  • Joining data objects
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Training Crystal Reports XI Series: Navigating the design environment – 1 day

Class overview :

This course provides an overview of the report design environment including sections, toolbars, menus, and explorers.

Class goals :

  • Explain the function of report sections
  • Identify the program’s five main toolbars
  • Describe available menu commands
  • Utilize the program’s explorer dialogs

Content of Crystal Reports XI Series: Navigating the Design Environment

  • Report sections
  • Toolbars
  • Menus
  • Explorers
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Training Crystal Reports 8 Series: Linking tables – 2 days

Class overview :

This course shows users how to use Crystal Reports 8 to link data tables together and create mailing labels.

Class goals :

  • Describe database concepts
  • Link data tables
  • Use the Visual Linking expert
  • Create mailing labels

Content of Crystal Reports 8 Series: Linking Tables

  • Using Tables
  • Accessing Data Directly
  • Using the Visual Linking Expert
  • Creating Mailing Labels
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