VMware vSphere: Design (v8.0) Training in Finland

This three-day expert-level course equips participants with the skills to design a VMware vSphere® 8 virtual infrastructure. Based on VMware best practices, the course teaches how to build an architecture that ensures availability, manageability, performance, security, and recoverability.

Students will learn the benefits and risks of different design choices, and through case studies, will practice making sound design decisions tailored to business objectives.

Product Alignment

• VMware ESXi 8.0

• VMware vCenter 8.0

Completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

• VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Create a vSphere design based on a case study

• Analyze business objectives, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks

• Move from conceptual to logical to physical designs

• Make informed design decisions for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, clusters, and VMs

• Plan for capacity, scalability, and lifecycle management

• Ensure high availability and performance through design choices

• Implement security design decisions

• Develop disaster recovery and data loss prevention strategies

1. Course Introduction

• Objectives and logistics

2. Infrastructure Assessment

• Design frameworks and methodologies

• Business objectives and requirements

• Conceptual, logical, and physical design transition

3. Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning

• Compute and storage calculations

• VMware best practices for capacity planning

4. Designing for Manageability: Scalability

• Strategies for scaling vSphere environments

5. Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management

• Strategies for upgrades, patching, and lifecycle processes

6. Designing for Availability

• Ensuring uptime through design best practices

7. Designing for Performance

• Strategies to maximize performance through design choices

8. Designing for Security

• Implementing security-focused architecture

9. Designing for Recoverability

• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning