COURSE OBJECTIVE:
After completing this course you should be able to:
• 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
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Individuals involved in the design of a vSphere solution
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Attendees should meet the following prerequisities:
• Completion of one of the following courses
COURSE CONTENT:
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
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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