VMware vSphere: Design [V8] (VSD8)

This three-day 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 virtualization solution that...

Course Introduction


- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Infrastructure Assessment


- Describe various design framework principles
- Follow a proven process to design a virtualization 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
- Recognize key information contained in the physical design
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
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
Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management


- Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design lifecycle management strategies that meet th...

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
- Analyze design choices for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
- Identify design decisions to ensure manageabili...

System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects