VMware vSphere 5: Design Workshop (VDW)

VMware pre- and postsales technical professionals responsible for designing vSphere architectures

This course is part of the following Certifications:

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Design (VCAP4-DCD)
• VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)

Knowledge of vSphere 5 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration

• Understand and apply a framework to a design.
• Design a storage solution to use vSphere in an enterprise.
• Design a network to use vSphere in an enterprise.
• Design compute resources for an enterprise.
• Design virtual machines to run applications in a virtual infrastructure.
• Design a virtual datacenter for an enterprise.
• Incorporate management and monitoring features in the design.
• Identify design goals, requirements, constraints, and risks.
• Identify useful information for making design decisions.
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations.
• Analyze alternative design choices.

1 Course Introduction

• Identify the course goals
• Identify the course objectives
• View the course module outline

2 Design Process Overview

• Clarify key terminology
• Identify and discuss design guidelines, design approaches, design sessions, and design decisions and implications, and create a design framework
• Define and describe a framework methodology
• Identify design tools, including the architecture quality matrix, Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3, and the vSphere technology stack

3 VMware vSphere Storage Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical storage
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative storage design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a storage design

4 VMware vSphere Network Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical networks
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative network design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a network design

5 Compute Resources Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about host CPU and memory
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative host design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a host design

6 Virtual Machine Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual machines
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative virtual machine design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a virtual machine design

7 VMware vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual datacenters regarding management server and cluster configuration
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative virtual datacenter design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a virtual datacenter design

8 Management and Monitoring Design

• Identify useful information for making design decisions about management and monitoring
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative management and monitoring design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a management and monitoring design