Introduction:
This three-day training course 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 is available, scalable, manageable, recoverable, and secure, 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.
Audience profile:
This course is intended primarily for:
- Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments
Pre-requisites:
This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage v7
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale v7
Course objectives:
After completing this course, students will 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 content
| Module 1: Infrastructure Assessment |
- Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
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- Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
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- Define customer business objectives
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- Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
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- Gather and analyze business and application requirements
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- Create a conceptual design
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| Module 2: Core Management Infrastructure |
- Determine the number of vCenter Server Appliance TM instances and VMware to include in a design
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- Choose methods to collect log files and ESXi core dumps
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- Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
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- Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center
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- Choose the time synchronization method
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| Module 3: Virtual Data Center Infrastructure |
- Calculate total compute capacity requirements for a virtual data center
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- Evaluate in the virtual data center the use of several management services, such as VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
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- Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
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- Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design
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| Module 4: Compute Infrastructure |
- Create a compute infrastructure design that includes the appropriate ESXi boot, installation, and configuration options
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- Choose the ESXi host hardware for the compute infrastructure
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| Module 5: Storage Infrastructure |
- Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
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- Design a storage platform and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
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- Evaluate the use of various storage platform and storage management solutions
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| Module 6: Network Infrastructure |
- Evaluate the use of various network component and network management solutions
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- Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
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- Design a network component architecture that includes information about network segmentation and virtual switch types
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| Module 7: Virtual Machine Design |
- Make virtual machine design decisions, including decisions about resources
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- Design virtual machines that meet the needs of the applications in the vSphere environment and that follow VMware best practices
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| Module 8: Infrastructure Security |
- Make security design decisions for various layers in the vSphere environment
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- Design a security strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices
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| Module 9: Infrastructure Manageability |
- Make lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning design decisions that adhere to business requirements
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- Design lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
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| Module 10:Infrastructure Recoverability |
- Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
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- Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices
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Associated certifications and exam:
The VMware vSphere: Design v7 course prepares students towards achieving VCAP-DCV Design certification. VCAP-DCV Design is designed for IT architects who design and integrate VMware solutions in multi-site, large enterprise, virtualized environments.
Successful candidates possess a deep understanding of datacenter design principles and methodologies, as well as VMware core components and their relation to storage and networking. Successful candidates also have broad knowledge of applications and infrastructure services, and how they relate and integrate with the virtual infrastructure.
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate
