VMware vSphere: Design [V7]

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$2,775.00 USD

Duration
3 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
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Course Overview

This three-day training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 7 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions. Given a case study, you practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.

Who Should Attend?

Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments

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Course Prerequisites

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]

Agenda

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Infrastructure Assessment

Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
Define customer business objectives
Gather and analyze business and application requirements
Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
Create a conceptual design

3 Core Management Infrastructure

Determine the number of VMware vCenter® Server ApplianceTM instances to include in a design
Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
Choose the time synchronization method
Choose methods to collect log files and ESXi core dumps
Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center

4 Virtual Data Center Infrastructure

Calculate total compute capacity requirements for a virtual data center
Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
Evaluate in the virtual data center the use of several management services, such as VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design

5 Compute Infrastructure

Create a compute infrastructure design that includes the appropriate ESXi boot, installation, and configuration options
Choose the ESXi host hardware for the compute infrastructure

6 Storage Infrastructure

Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
Evaluate the use of different storage platforms and storage management solutions
Design a storage platform infrastructure and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment

7 Network Infrastructure

Evaluate the use of different network component and network management solutions
Design a network component architecture that includes information about network segmentation and virtual switch types
Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment

8 Virtual Machine Design

Make virtual machine design decisions, including decisions about resources
Design virtual machines that meet the needs of the applications in the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

9 Infrastructure Security

Make security design decisions for various layers in the vSphere environment
Design a security strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices

10 Infrastructure Manageability

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

11 Infrastructure Recoverability

Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practice

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