VMware vSphere 5.0: Design Workshop
Course overview
The goal of this 3-day course is to equip consulting professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in designing a VMware vSphere® 5 virtual infrastructure. Given an organization’s constraints and requirements, the infrastructure should be available, scalable, manageable, and secure while meeting the organization’s business objectives. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server 5. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs.
Course objectives
At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:
- Understand and apply the VMware® Architecture 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 outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Identify the course goals
- Identify the course objectives
- View the course module outline
Module 2: Design Process Overview
- Clarify key terminology
- Identify and discuss design guidelines, design approaches, design sessions, design decisions and implications, and create a design framework
- Define and describe the VMware Architecture Framework methodology
- Identify design tools, including the architecture quality matrix, Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3, and the vSphere technology stack
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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
Module 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