VMware vSphere: Design and Deploy Fast Track (VSDDFT) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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