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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.

VCAP – Cloud Management and Automation Design

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.

Course

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

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