vSphere Design Workshop

Duration 3 Days

Date 08 - 10 Nov

Price €2,685

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this course you should be able to:

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

Course Introduction

Infrastructure Assessment

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 datacenter

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

Attendees should have completed the following courses:

Recommended prerequisites: