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Introduction
This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows 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
System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects.
Pre-requisites
This course requires completion of the one of the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
Course objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Create a vSphere design given a case study
- Identify and assess the business objectives of 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 for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
- Identify design decisions to ensure manageability, which include scalability, capacity planning and lifecycle management
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster
Course content
Session 1: Infrastructure Assessment | |
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Session 2: Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning | |
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Session 3: Designing for Manageability: Scalability | |
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Session 4: Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management | |
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Session 5: Designing for Availability | |
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Session 6: Designing for Performance | |
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Session 7: Designing for Security | |
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Session 8: Designing for Recoverability | |
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Associated certifications and exam
The 3V0-21.23 VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design exam tests a candidate’s ability to apply design principles to develop a vSphere 8.x conceptual design given a set of customer requirements, determine the business and technical requirements needed to create a logical design, and architect a physical design using these elements.
Associated Certification:
- VCAP-DCV Design 2024
The VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Design 2024 (VCAP-DCV Design 2024) certification validates an individual’s advanced skills in designing vSphere solutions, including compute, storage, networking and security, as well as capacity planning and disaster recovery. Job-roles associated with this certification include Data Center Virtualization architects, and consultants
VMware Overview
VMware has been at the forefront with innovative software solutions that enable a software-defined enterprise. To take advantage, organizations need IT professionals who possess the cloud and virtualization skills required to support these environments.
For nearly 8 years, Torque IT has maintained the status of VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) in Africa. Torque IT is the first South African owned VMware Authorized Training Centre (VATC) that has locally available skills and resources to offer our clients the broadest range of scheduled authorized VMware training courses, across our national offices, or onsite at any of our customer’s offices across Africa.
Torque IT has been the proud recipient of the prestigious (VATC) of the year award in Africa for four consecutive years. These achievements reflect our commitment to providing you with the highest quality skills development, enablement, training, and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth, breadth, and expertise across Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center & Cloud Management, Network Virtualization and End-User Computing.