VMware Infrastructure: Design

Prerequisites:

Comfort with fundamental Linux commands (such as ls and cp) and a Linux text editor.

Recommended - Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure or equivalent experience with VMware Infrastructure 3.

Delegates are asked to complete a Basic Skills Self-Assessment: VMware Infrastructure Fundamentals.

You must already possess the following prerequisite skills to gain the greatest possible value from attending this course: Install VMware ESX on a local volume, Install VMware vCenter and add an ESX server to its inventory, Build a Windows virtual machine using the VMware Infrastructure Client, Create a template in vCenter and deploy a virtual machine from it, Configure access to iSCSI storage on your ESX server, Create a VMFS datastore on shared storage, Migrate a virtual machine using VMware vMotion, Apply migration recommendations in a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster, Send an SNMP notification when a virtual machine-based alarm is triggered and Configure VMware High Availability to successfully fail over virtual machines during a host failure.

Course Description:

This hands-on training course explores the foundations of designing VMware Infrastructure architectures.

This course is not required for the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification. The content of the course is a subset of the knowledge tested in the VCDX examinations. Therefore, the course is most appropriate for persons who are new to designing virtual infrastructures and who intend to gain further hands-on design experience before beginning the VCDX process.

Objectives
Implementing best practices and evaluating design considerations to meet business needs
Distributing resources across ESX clusters automatically and ensuring high availability
Architecting remote and branch offices
Designing to support certain enterprise applications

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction

• Principles in designing VMware Infrastructure architectures

Designing for Manageability

• Designing for lower cost of administration

Designing for Availability

• Fault-tolerant, resilient and highly available architectures

Designing for Scalability

• Design considerations for scalability
• Tradeoffs between scaling up versus scaling out resources

Designing Based on Analytical Tools

• Available analytical tools
• Designing templates based on inventory analysis Sizing a virtual infrastructure based on capacity analysis

Design Pattern - Remote and Branch Offices

• Centralized and distributed remote office architectures
• Making remote office information more available

Design Pattern - Microsoft SQL Server

• Designing an architecture to support SQL Server Design considerations for OLTP (online transaction processing) versus DSS (decision support systems)Deciding between VMFS, RDM, and a hybrid combination

Design Pattern - Microsoft Active Directory

• Designing virtual domain controllers to minimize management while maximizing performance

Design Pattern - Microsoft Exchange Server

• Designing an architecture to support Exchange Server, including Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 server roles