VMware vSphere: Design [V8] Course

Name: VMware vSphere: Design [V8]
Price: 2775.00 USD
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$2,775.00 USD

Duration
3 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

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.

Course 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

Who Should Attend?

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects

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What is VMware vSphere: Design [V8] training?

This training course teaches you how to design a VMware virtualization solution using a structured, layered approach aligned with VMware best practices across compute, storage, network, security, and recoverability.

What are the benefits of this course?

You’ll gain the abilities to design a VMware environment that is scalable, recoverable, and aligned with both technical and business requirements. It also prepares you for architecture roles and supports VMware certification goals.

Will this course help me design secure vSphere infrastructure?

Yes. You’ll learn how to design security strategies that meet organizational needs and ensure a secure vSphere deployment using access control, encryption, and segmentation.

Will this training help me consult on or validate vSphere architecture?

Absolutely. This course is ideal for consultants and solution architects who need to evaluate infrastructure proposals and deliver high-quality, scalable virtualization solutions.

Does this course support VMware certification?

Yes. While it doesn’t include an exam, this course supports advanced VMware certification paths and validates your professional expertise in designing modern cloud and data center environments.

Course Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the one of the following:

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

Agenda

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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