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Technical pre-requisites

This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.5]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Assess the business and application requirements of the current 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, management, and recoverability features for an enterprise

1.Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2.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

3.Core Management Infrastructure

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

4.Virtual Data Center Infrastructure

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

5.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

6.Storage Infrastructure

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

7.Network Infrastructure

• Evaluate the use of various 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

8.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 that follow VMware best practices

9.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

10.Infrastructure Manageability

• Make VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ design decisions that meet the requirements of the virtual data center
• Make infrastructure management design decisions about the required areas
• Design an infrastructure management strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices

11.Infrastructure Recoverability

• Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions in the required areas
• Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices