VMware vSphere: Design [V7.0] is a 3-day course which equips students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 7 virtual infrastructure. Students follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security, and that uses VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.
Given a case study, you practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.
This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification:
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
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
Module 3: Core Management Infrastructure
Determine the number of VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ 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
Module 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™
Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 11: 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