vSphere: Design Workshop V6.5 (EDU-VSDW65)

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

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

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 end ESXi core dumps
• Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center

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 design
• Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design

Compute Infrastructure

• Create a compute infrastructure design that includes the appropriate ESXi boot, installation, and configuration options
• Choose the ESXi host for the compute infrastructure

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

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

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

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