VMware vSphere Design Workshop v5.5

Course details

The goal of this course is to equip consulting professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in designing a VMware vSphere® 5 virtual infrastructure.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following: ? Understand and apply a framework to a design. ? Design a storage solution to use vSphere in an enterprise. ? Design a network to use vSphere in an enterprise. ? Design compute resources for an enterprise. ? Design virtual machines to run applications in a virtual infrastructure. ? Design a virtual datacenter for an enterprise. ? Incorporate management and monitoring features in the design. ? Identify design goals, requirements, constraints, and risks. ? Identify useful information for making design decisions. ? Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations. ? Analyze alternative design choices.

Course Outline
1 - Course Introduction
Identify the course goals Identify the course objectives View the course module outline
2 - Design Process Overview
Clarify key terminology Identify and discuss design guidelines, design approaches, design sessions, and design decisions and implications, and create a design framework Define and describe a framework methodology Identify design tools, including the architecture quality matrix, Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3, and the vSphere technology stack
3 - VMware vSphere Storage Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical storage Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative storage design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a storage design
4 - VMware vSphere Network Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical networks Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative network design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a network design
5 - Computer Resources Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about host CPU and memory Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative host design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a host design
6 - Virtual Machine Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual machines Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative virtual machine design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a virtual machine design
7 - VMware vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual datacenters regarding management server and cluster configuration Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative virtual datacenter design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a virtual datacenter design
8 - Management and Monitoring Design
Identify useful information for making design decisions about management and monitoring Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative management and monitoring design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer Develop a management and monitoring design
Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information. Updated on 24 October, 2017