The course Vmware vSphere Design, 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. The approach presented follows VMware best practices.
the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support
making sound design decisions.
Product Alignment
• VMware ESXi™ 7
• VMware vCenter Server® 7
Duration
24 hs
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Identify the business objectives for the vSphere environment and 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 and the virtual data center for an enterprise
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• The compute infrastructure for an enterprise
• Storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
• Virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
• Security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise
Certifications
This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification:
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Intended Audience
Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying
vSphere environments
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
• vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]Outline
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
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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
• the time synchronization method
• methods to collect log files and 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™
• 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
• 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 lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning design decisions that
adhere to 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
• infrastructure recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
• infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere
environment and follows VMware best practices