1  Course Introduction
•  Identify the course goals
•  Identify the course objectives
•  View the course module outline
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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