VMware vSphere: Design [V8]

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Create a vSphere design given a case study
• Identify and assess the business objectives of the vSphere environment
• Identify business requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks, for all layers in the vSphere environment
• Apply a framework to a design
• Analyze design choices for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
• Identify design decisions to ensure manageability, which include scalability, capacity planning and lifecycle management
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster

This course requires completion of the one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Infrastructure Assessment

• Describe various design framework principles
• Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
• Define customer business objectives and requirements
• Use a systematic method to evaluate and document a conceptual model
• Create a logical design from a conceptual model
• Recognize key information contained in the physical design

3 Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning

• Make capacity planning design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design capacity planning strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
• Calculate compute and storage requirements for the VMs in the vSphere environment

4 Designing for Manageability: Scalability

• Make scalability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design scalability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

5 Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management

• Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design lifecycle management strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

6 Designing for Availability

• Make availability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design availability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

7 Designing for Performance

• Make performance design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design performance strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

8 Designing for Security

• Make security design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design security strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

9 Designing for Recoverability

• Make recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• Design recoverability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
  

Previous courses

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] [VMWVSICM7]

VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure [V8] [VMW_OSS]