VMware vSphere – Design Workshop

Formation VMware vSphere : Design Workshop [V5]

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
Given an organization’s constraints and requirements, the infrastructure should be available, scalable, manageable, and secure while meeting the organization’s business objectives
The course is based on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server 5
This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions
This course also provides an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.

Module 1: Course Introduction

Identify the course goals

Identify the course objectives

View the course module outline

Module 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

Modules 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

Module 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

Module 5: Compute 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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