VSD7 – VMware vSphere: Design v7
VSD7 - VMware vSphere: Design v7
Overview:
This three-day training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 7 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. Given a case study, you practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.
Product Alignment
VMware ESXi™ 7
VMware vCenter Server® 7
Objectives:
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Identify the business objectives for 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 and best-practice recommendations
Create a design that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security
Design the core management infrastructure for an enterprise
Design the virtual data center for an enterprise
Design the compute infrastructure for an enterprise
Design the storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
Design virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
Design security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise
Certifications
This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification:
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Prerequisites:
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 VMware vCenter® Server ApplianceTM instances to include in a design
Choose the appropriate single sign-on identity source
Choose the time synchronization method
Choose methods to collect log files and 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 compute capacity requirements for a virtual data center
Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
Evaluate in the virtual data center the use of several management services, such as VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
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 hardware for the compute infrastructure
Storage Infrastructure
Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
Evaluate the use of different storage platforms and storage management solutions
Design a storage platform infrastructure and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
Network Infrastructure
Evaluate the use of different 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 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
Infrastructure Manageability
Make lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design lifecycle management, scalability, and capacity planning strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
Infrastructure Recoverability
Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment and follows VMware best practices