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VMware vSphere: Design Workshop

Delivery Methods

Instructor-led training Onsite training

Course Duration

Three days of instructor-led training 60% lecture, 40% hands-on lab

Target Audience

VMware pre- and postsales technical professionals responsible for designing vSphere architectures

Prerequisites

Knowledge of vSphere 5 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration

Pricing

Contact your VMware representative or a VMware Authorized Training Center for pricing information.

More Information

Courses are conveniently scheduled around the world. Go to http://www.vmware.com/education to find the class that is right for you.

Onsite training is also available for customers who prefer to bring a VMware Certified Instructor to their own facilities. For information about onsite classes, including facility requirements, go to http://www.vmware.com/education.

Course Overview The goal of this course is to equip consulting professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in designing a VMware vSphere® 5 virtual infrastructure. Given an organization’s constraints and requirements, the infrastructure should be available, scalable, manageable, and secure while meeting the organization’s business objectives. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server 5.

This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions. This course also provides an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.

Course Objectives At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:

Understand and apply a framework to a design. Design a storage solution to use vSphere in an enterprise. Design a network to use vSphere in an enterprise. Design compute resources for an enterprise. Design virtual machines to run applications in a virtual

infrastructure. Design a virtual datacenter for an enterprise. Incorporate management and monitoring features in the design. Identify design goals, requirements, constraints, and risks. Identify useful information for making design decisions. Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations. Analyze alternative design choices.

VMware vSphere: Design Workshop

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VMware SKU: EDU-VSDW5-OE Rev. 11/2011

Course Modules 1 Course Introduction

Identify the course goals Identify the course objectives View the course module outline

5 Compute Resources Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

host CPU and memory Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative host design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a host design

2 Design Process Overview Clarify key terminology Identify and discuss design guidelines, design approaches,

design sessions, and design decisions and implications, and create a design framework

Define and describe a framework methodology Identify design tools, including the architecture quality matrix,

Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3, and the vSphere technology stack

6 Virtual Machine Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

virtual machines Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative virtual machine design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a virtual machine design

3 VMware vSphere Storage Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

virtual and physical storage Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative storage design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a storage design

7 VMware vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

virtual datacenters regarding management server and cluster configuration

Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative virtual datacenter design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a virtual datacenter design

4 VMware vSphere Network Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

virtual and physical networks Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative network design choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a network design

8 Management and Monitoring Design Identify useful information for making design decisions about

management and monitoring Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations Analyze alternative management and monitoring design

choices Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the

customer Develop a management and monitoring design