Overview
VMware vSphere: Design
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.
Skills Covered
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
Who Should Attend
- System integrators
- Consultants
- Solution architects
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the one of the following:
Course Modules
Exam & Certification
This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification:
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Earning this certification validates that you have advanced knowledge of end-user computing environments and components, and are able to recommend and design VMware solutions to meet specific goals and requirements. This industry-recognized certification improves your credibility among your peers and proves that you have a deep understanding of data center virtualization design principles and methodologies.
