Course

VMware vSphere: Design [V8] («VSPHV8»)

This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure.
Duration 3 days
Price 2'550.–
Course documents Original electronic VMware courseware (eKit)

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Creating a vSphere design given a case study
  • Identifying and assessing the business objectives of the vSphere environment
  • Identifying business requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks, for all layers in the vSphere environment
  • Applying a framework to a design
  • Analyzing design choices for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
  • Identifying design decisions to ensure manageability, which include scalability, capacity planning and lifecycle management
  • Identifying design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available
  • Identifying design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well
  • Identifying design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure
  • Identifying design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster
Content

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
Target audience

This course is aimed at system integrators, consultants and solution architects.

Certification

This course prepares you for the «VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design» certification.

VMware Certification: Click here for an overview of the VMware certifications.

Additional information

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provided when you registered. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises in parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.

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Oct
2025
31
Oct
2025
Zürich
German
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CHF 2’550.-
exkl. 8.1% Mwst.
CHF 2’550.-
exkl. 8.1% Mwst.