Duration

3 days.

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
  • VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]

Skills Gained

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

Who Can Benefit?

Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments

    Outline for VMware vSphere: Design [V7] Training

    Outline

    Course Introduction

    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Product Alignment

    • VMware ESXi™ 7
    • VMware vCenter Server® 7