VMware vSphere: Design Workshop (VDW)

The course is designed for VMware pre- and post sales technical professionals responsible for designing vSphere architectures.

Knowledge of vSphere 4 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration.

At the end of this course, you will have applied the design methodology, criteria, and approach to create a vSphere design based on one or more case studies. Also, you will be able to:

• Identify design goals, requirements, and constraints
• Identify useful information for making design decisions
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative design choices
• Identify risks
• Work in a design team on a design project.

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Provide a general overview of the course

Module 2: Design Process Overview

• Discuss the design methodology, criteria, and approach
• Introduce an example five-step design process

Module 3: ESX/ESXi Host Design

• Identify useful information for making host design decisions
• Analyze best practices and host design alternatives

Module 4: vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design

• Identify useful information for making vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design decisions
• Analyze best practices and vCenter Server, database, cluster, and resource pool design alternatives

Module 5: vSphere Network Design

• Identify useful information for making network design decisions
• Analyze best practices and network design alternatives

Module 6: vSphere Storage Design

• Identify useful information for making storage design decisions
• Analyze best practices and storage design alternatives

Module 7: Virtual Machine Design

• Identify useful information for making virtual machine design decisions
• Analyze best practices and virtual machine design alternatives

Module 8: Management and Monitoring Design

• Identify useful information for making management and monitoring design decisions
• Analyze best practices and management and monitoring design alternatives

Design Workshop

• Small group case study workshop to practice using the methodology, criteria, and approach required to design a vSphere virtual datacenter