This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions. This course also gives you an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design project.
The course is based on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server™ 5.5.
Register:
06/02-04/2015
Pre-requisites
Knowledge of vSphere 5.5 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration.
What will you get out of this training ?
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.
Duration: 3 days
Price: CHF 3100.-- (plus 8% VAT)
(Lunch not included)
Location: Gland
Register:
06/02-04/2015
Course Content
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
