VMware vSphere 7: Design V7 (VSDW7)

  • Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
  • Date: on request

VMware vSphere 7: Design V7 (VSDW7)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills needed to design a VMware vSphere 7 virtual infrastructure
  • Gain hands-on experience to define business goals and design the optimal vSphere infrastructure
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Course syllabus:

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Infrastructure Assessment

  • Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
  • Define customer business objectives
  • Gather and analyze business and application requirements
  • Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
  • Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
  • Create a conceptual design

Core Management Infrastructure

  • Determine the number of VMware vCenter Server ApplianceTM instances to include in a design
  • Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
  • Choose the time synchronization method
  • Choose methods to collect log files and VMware ESXi core dumps
  • Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center

Virtual Data Center Infrastructure

  • Calculate total compute capacity requirements for a virtual data center
  • Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
  • Evaluate in the virtual data center the use of several management services, such as VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
  • Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design

Compute Infrastructure

  • Create a compute infrastructure design that includes the appropriate ESXi boot, installation, and configuration options
  • Choose the ESXi host hardware for the compute infrastructure

Storage Infrastructure

  • Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
  • Evaluate the use of different storage platforms and storage management solutions
  • Design a storage platform infrastructure and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment

Network Infrastructure

  • Evaluate the use of different network component and network management solutions
  • Design a network component architecture that includes information about network segmentation and virtual switch types
  • Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment

Virtual Machine Design

  • Make virtual machine design decisions, including decisions about resources
  • Design virtual machines that meet the needs of the applications in the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices

Infrastructure Security

  • Make security design decisions for various layers in the vSphere environment
  • Design a security strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices

Infrastructure Manageability

  • Make infrastructure manageability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
  • Design an infrastructure manageability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices

Infrastructure Recoverability

  • Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
  • Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices

You will learn:

  • Identify the business objectives for 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 and best-practice recommendations
  • Create a design that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security
  • Design the core management infrastructure for an enterprise
  • Design the virtual data center for an enterprise
  • Design the compute infrastructure for an enterprise
  • Design the storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
  • Design virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
  • Design security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that students have basic knowledge of networking technologies, ability to work with Windows (Workstation and Server) and UNIX, understanding of TCP/IP, knowledge of the VSICM7 and VSOS7 courses or an equivalent level of knowledge and skills in administering ESXi and vCenter Server.

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