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VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V5.5]

Summary
Duration
3 Days

Vendor
VMware

Audience
Pre and Post Sales Engineers

Level
Advance

Technology
vSphere

Category
Infrastructure Virtualization / VCAP5-DCD

Delivery Method
Instructor-led (Classroom)

Training Credits / Vouchers

VMware PSO Credits Accepted

Introduction
The goal of this course is to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 5.5 virtual
infrastructure that is available, scalable, manageable, and secure. You will design such an infrastructure while meeting your
organizations business objectives and working within its constraints and requirements.
This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound
design decisions. This course also gives you an opportunity to practice your design skills by working with peers on a design
project. The course is based on VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server 5.5.

Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course is as follows:

Knowledge of vSphere 5.5 installation, upgrade, configuration, and administration

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:

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.

Target Audience
This course is intended primarily for:

VMware pre- and post-sales technical professionals responsible for designing vSphere architectures

VMware Channel Partners pursuing the Infrastructure Virtualisation Competency

Individuals preparing for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional on vSphere 5 Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD)
certification

Course Content
1.

Course Introduction

making design decisions about

Identify the course goals

virtual and physical networks

Identify the course objectives

View the course module outline

Recognize and analyze bestpractice recommendations

virtual datacenters regarding

Communicate choices and their

management server and cluster

Clarify key terminology

Identify and discuss design

benefits and risks to the

guidelines, design approaches,

customer

Develop a network design

create a design framework

5.

Compute Resources Design

Define and describe a

Identify useful information for

decisions and implications, and

Communicate choices and their

benefits and risks to the
customer

Recognize and analyze best-

choices

Design

customer

6.

Virtual Machine Design

Identify useful information for

practice recommendations

Communicate choices and their

Develop a storage design

4.

VMware vSphere Network

Recognize and analyze best-

Communicate choices and their

benefits and risks to the

Design
Identify useful information for

customer

Develop a virtual machine

design

Analyze alternative
management and monitoring
design choices

Communicate choices and their

benefits and risks to the

Analyze alternative virtual

machine design choices

Recognize and analyze bestpractice recommendations

practice recommendations

customer

management and monitoring

virtual machines

Identify useful information for

making design decisions about

making design decisions about

Analyze alternative storage

Management and Monitoring

Design

Recognize and analyze best-

benefits and risks to the

8.

Develop a host design

virtual and physical storage

design choices

design

Communicate choices and their

benefits and risks to the

Develop a virtual datacenter

Analyze alternative host design

VMware vSphere Storage

Identify useful information for

practice recommendations

making design decisions about

host CPU and memory

datacenter design choices

making design decisions about

the vSphere technology stack

Analyze alternative virtual

Identify design tools, including

Infrastructure Library v3, and

Recognize and analyze bestpractice recommendations

Information Technology

configuration

framework methodology
the architecture quality matrix,

3.

Identify useful information for

design choices

Design Process Overview

Datacenter Design

making design decisions about

design sessions, and design

VMware vSphere Virtual

Analyze alternative network

2.

7.

customer

Develop a management and

monitoring design

Associated Certifications & Exam

The VMware vSphere: Design Workshop course is recommended for VCAP5-DCD exam preparations. VCAP5-DCD is designed for
IT architects who design and integrate VMware solutions in multi-site, large enterprise, virtualized environments. Successful
candidates possess a deep understanding of datacenter design principles and methodologies, as well as VMware core
components and their relation to storage and networking. Successful candidates also have broad knowledge of applications and
infrastructure services, and how they relate and integrate with the virtual infrastructure
On successful completion of this course students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.