VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V6.5]

VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V6.5] Certification Training Course Overview

This training course prepares you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 6.5 virtual infrastructure. You get to learn the best practices and proven approach to design a virtualization solution that is available, scalable, manageable, recoverable, and secure.

This course defines the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decision.

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Audience: The course is meant for Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments

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Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Infrastructure Assessment
- 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
Core Management Infrastructure
- Determine the number of vCenter Server and VMware Platform Services Controller™ instances to include in a design
- Choose the appropriate platforms for vCenter Server components
- Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
- Choose the time synchronization method
- Choose methods to collect log files and ESXi core dumps
- Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center
Virtual Data Center Infrastructure
- Calculate total capacity requirements for a design
- Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
- Evaluate the use of several management services, such as VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, in the virtual data center
- Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design
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
Storage Infrastructure
- Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
- Evaluate the use of different storage platform and storage management solutions
- Design a storage platform and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
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
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
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
Infrastructure Manageability
- Make infrastructure manageability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design an infrastructure manageability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices
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

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