VMware vSphere: Design [v7.0]

Retail Price: $2,775

3 Days

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, and that uses 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

Learning Objectives

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

• Identify the business objectives for 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 and best-practice recommendations
• Create a design that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security
• Design the core management infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design the virtual data center for an enterprise
• Design the compute infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design the storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
• Design virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
• Design security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise

Course Details

Course Outline

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 VMware 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 infrastructure manageability design decisions that adhere to business requirements

Design an infrastructure manageability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows 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 practices

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.