Course Details
In this course based on VMware ESXi? and VMware vCenter? Server 5, youwill become equipped with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achievecompetence in designing a VMware vSphere© 5 virtual infrastructure. Given anorganization’s constraints and requirements, the infrastructure should beavailable, scalable, manageable, and secure while meeting the organization’sbusiness objectives.
You will discover the benefits and risks of available design alternatives andreceive information to help you make sound design decisions. You will also havean opportunity to practice your design skills through hands-on labs and workingwith peers on a design project.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of vSphere 5 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration
Course Agenda
1. Design Process
- Key terminology
- Design guidelines, design approaches, design sessions, and designdecisions and implications
- Create a design framework
- Framework methodology
- Design tools, including the architecture quality matrix, ITIL v3, and thevSphere technology stack
2. VMware vSphere Storage Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physicalstorage
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative storage design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a storage design
3. VMware vSphere Network Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physicalnetworks
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative network design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a network design
4. Compute Resources Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about host CPU and memory
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative host design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a host design
5. Virtual Machine Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about virtual machines
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative virtual machine design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a virtual machine design
6. VMware vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about virtual datacentersregarding management server and cluster configuration
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative virtual datacenter design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a virtual datacenter design
7. Management and Monitoring Design
- Useful information for making design decisions about management andmonitoring
- Best practice recommendations
- Alternative management and monitoring design choices
- Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
- Develop a management and monitoring design