This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 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.

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Learning Objectives

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

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

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  • 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

Audience

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects

Language

English

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the one of the following: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure

$2,775

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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