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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

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects

Product Alignment

VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0

This course requires completion of the one of the following:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure

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

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Infrastructure Assessment

Describe various design framework principles
Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
Define customer business objectives and requirements
Use a systematic method to evaluate and document a conceptual model
Create a logical design from a conceptual model
Recognize key information contained in the physical design

3 Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning

Make capacity planning design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design capacity planning strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
Calculate compute and storage requirements for the VMs in the vSphere environment

4 Designing for Manageability: Scalability

Make scalability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design scalability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

5 Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management

Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design lifecycle management strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

6 Designing for Availability

Make availability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design availability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

7 Designing for Performance

Make performance design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design performance strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

8 Designing for Security

Make security design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design security strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

9 Designing for Recoverability

Make recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design recoverability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

26 May 2024