VMware vSphere: Design

Individuals involved in the design of a vSphere solution

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Create a vSphere design given a case study
• Identify and assess the business objectives of 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 for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
• Identify design decisions to ensure manageability, which include scalability, capacity planning and lifecycle management
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure
• Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attendees should meet the following prerequisities:

• Completion of one of the following courses

• VSICM - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VSOS - VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale

Recommended as preparation for the following exams:

• 3VO - 21.23 - VMware vSphere 8.x Advanced Design - Required for VCAP-DCV-Design 2023 Certification