ITSA 2006 Assignment 3

ITSA 2006
SERVER
VIRTUALIZATION
Assignment 3
July 2020
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ITSA 2006 Assignment 3
Week 8 Practical Assignment
A virtualization infrastructure with Distributed Resource Scheduler – DRS and Hihg Availability – HA.
Setup the VMware VCenter 6, VMWare ESXi 6 and perform tasks listed in the following section.
Infrastructure Presentation: In Class / LAB
DEADLINE: WEEK 12
Assignment 3:
Reference Style
In this course, the Harvard reference style is prefered. Pelase familiarize yourself with the style. Your
ability to use proper academic style will form part of the Assessment.
Tasks
1. VMware ESXi (5 Marks)
a. Deploy and Configure ESXi Host(s)
b. Use VSphere Client to manage the ESXi
2. Configure vNetwork Standard Switches (5 Marks)
a. Plan and configure vSphere networking
b. Vmnics on a vSphere standard switch
c. Configure vmkernel ports for network services
d. Port groups on a vNetwork standard switch
3. Storage (10 Marks)
a. Configure the iSCSI / Shared Storage
b. Configure LUNs and iSCSI Storage
c. Create a new, single volume VMFS that does not use all available space
d. Build a new VMFS volume on a SAN LUN
e. Partition and Format a LUN VMFS
f. Add a second LUN
g. Grow a VMFS
4. Create and Deploy Virtual Machines (5 Marks)
a. Deploy Virtual machines
b. Hot Add a Virtual Disk
c. Hot Extend a Virtual Disk
d. Grow the VM System Drive
5. Virtual Machine Migration (5 Marks)
a. Create a VMkernel Port for VMotion
b. Cold migrate a windows VM onto the Shared SAN LUN
c. Power on the VMs and verify that they are running on shared SAN storage
d. Add a second ESXi host to VMWare vCenter server
e. Hot migrate a VM from one ESXi host to the second host
f. Use VMWare Storage VMotion to migrate the storage of a hot VM onto a shared SAN LUN
6. Deploy and configure a VMWare feature / add on of your choice (5 Marks)
7. Network and Infrastructure Doucmentation (15 Marks)
a. Document ESXi Name, Network Settings
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b. Document Virtual Network Infrasture
c. Physical / Logical Network Diagram
Assignment Submission
Note that infrastructue Documentation must be sumitted electronically to moodle.