VMware vSphere: Design [V8]
This three-day training course provides the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to design a VMware vSphere®7 virtual infrastructure. A proven approach is followed to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. The course examines the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support design decisions.
COD: VSD7
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and implementing vSphere environments
This course is recommended if you want to obtain the following certification:
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses or equivalent experience with vSphere implementations:
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Identify business goals for the vSphere environment.
- Identify business requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks for all levels of the vSphere environment.
- Apply a framework to a project
- Analyze design choices and best practice recommendations.
- Create a blueprint that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security.
- Design the core management infrastructure of a company
- Designing a company’s virtual data center
- Design the computing infrastructure for a company
- Design the storage and networking infrastructure for an enterprise.
- Design virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure.
- Design security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Infrastructure assessment
- Follow a proven process for designing a virtualization solution
- Define the client’s business goals
- 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 instances of VMware vCenter® Server ApplianceTM to include in a project.
- Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
- Choose the time sync method
- Choose methods to collect ESXi core dumps and log files.
- Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that fits the size and requirements of the data center.
4 Virtual data center infrastructure
- Calculate the total compute capacity requirements for a virtual data center.
- Create a virtual data center cluster project that meets your business and workload requirements.
- Consider using various management services, such as VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, in the virtual data center.
- Evaluate the use of resource pools in your virtual data center design.
5 Computing infrastructure
- Create a compute infrastructure project that includes the appropriate ESXi startup, installation, and configuration options.
- Choose ESXi host hardware for your compute infrastructure.
6 Storage infrastructure
- Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a project.
- 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 components and network management solutions.
- Design a network component architecture that includes information about network segmentation and vswitch types.
- Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment.
8 Designing virtual machines
- Make virtual machine design decisions, including resource decisions.
- Design virtual machines that meet the needs of applications in the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
9 Infrastructure security
- Make security design decisions for various layers of the vSphere environment.
- Design a security strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices.
10 Infrastructure manageability
- Make design decisions for lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning that meet 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 based on business requirements.
- Design an infrastructure recovery strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices
Duration – 3 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
