VMware vSphere: Design [V8]|System Source

This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.


10/16/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led	(click to enroll)
12/04/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led	(click to enroll)

Create a vSphere design given a case study

Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster
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
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

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Course objectives
Describe various design framework principles
design
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
This course requires completion of the one of the following:

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects

VMware vSphere: Design [V8]

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