Course 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
Target Audience
• System administrators
• System engineer
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the one of the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
CONTENUTI
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
7 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
