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VMware vSphere: Design

Length 3 days
Price NZD 3700 exc GST
Version 8

Course overview

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Why study this course

This 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 virtualisation 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.

Product alignment:

VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware vCenter 8.0

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What you’ll learn

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

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
Analyse 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

VMware at Lumify Work

VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VCF Education Delivery Partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.

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Who is the course for?

System integrators
Consultants
Solution architects

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. Infrastructure Assessment

Describe various design framework principles
Follow a proven process to design a virtualisation 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
Recognise key information contained in the physical design

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:

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