Overview

The goal of this course is to equip consulting professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in designing a VMware vSphere® 5 virtual infrastructure. Given an organization’s constraints and requirements, the infrastructure
should be available, scalable, manageable, and secure while meeting the organization’s business objectives. The course is
based on VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter™ Server 5.

This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound
design decisions. This course also provides an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design
project.

Duration

3 Days

Target Audience

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

Topics

Course Introduction

Provide a general overview of the course

Design Process Overview

Discuss the design methodology, criteria, and approach

Introduce an example five-step design process

ESX/ESXi Host Design

Identify useful information for making host design decisions

Analyze best practices and host design alternatives 

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 

vSphere Network Design

Identify useful information for making network design decisions

Analyze best practices and network design alternatives

 vSphere Storage Design

Identify useful information for making storage design decisions

Analyze best practices and storage design alternatives

Virtual Machine Design

Identify useful information for making virtual machine design decisions

Analyze best practices and virtual machine design alternatives

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

A more comprehensive course outline is available in the Course Download section, to the right of this page.

MTC serves the whole of the North East region, including, Sunderland, Newcastle, Durham Teesside, Tyne and Wear, Cumbria, Northumberland, Darlington, North Yorkshire, Carlisle, Hartlepool. In addition MTC supports many clients nationally within the UK.