• Understand and apply a framework to a design. • Design a storage solution to use vSphere in an enterprise. • Design a network to use vSphere in an enterprise. • Design compute resources for an enterprise. • Design virtual machines to run applications in a virtual infrastructure. • Design a virtual datacenter for an enterprise. • Incorporate management and monitoring features in the design. • Identify design goals, requirements, constraints, and risks. • Identify useful information for making design decisions. • Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations. • Analyze alternative design choices.
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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