Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Infrastructure Assessment
- 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 instances to include in a design
- Choose appropriate platforms for vCenter Server components and databases
- Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center
- Review a core management infrastructure design and deploy it as designed
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 various 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
- Deploy virtual data center components for the given vSphere 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
- Review a compute infrastructure design and deploy it as designed
- Configure and run a script to automate ESXi host installation
Storage Infrastructure
- Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
- Evaluate the use of different storage platform and storage management solutions
- Design a storage platform and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the environment
- Review a storage platform design and deploy it as designed
- Review a storage management design and deploy it as designed
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
- Review a network component design and deploy it as designed
- Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the environment
- Review a storage management design and deploy it as designed
Virtual Machine Design
- Make virtual machine design decisions, including decisions for resources
- Design virtual machines that meet the needs of the applications in the environment
- Review a virtual machine design and deploy it as designed
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
- Review an infrastructure security design and deploy it as designed
Infrastructure Manageability
- Make VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ design decisions that meet the requirements of the data center
- Review a vSphere Update Manager architecture design and deploy it as designed
- Make infrastructure management design decisions for the required areas
- Design an infrastructure management strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
- Review an infrastructure management design and deploy it as designed
Infrastructure Recoverability
- Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions in the required areas
- Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
- Review an infrastructure recoverability design and deploy it as designed