VMware vSphere: Design [V8]
This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.
VMware vSphere: Design V8
Course Overview
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Create a vSphere design given a case study
- Identify and assess the business objectives of the vSphere environment
- Identify business requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks, for all layers in the vSphere environment
- Apply a framework to a design
- Analyze design choices for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines
- Identify design decisions to ensure manageability, which include scalability, capacity planning and lifecycle management
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster
Course Outline
- Module 1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Module 2 Infrastructure Assessment
- Describe various design framework principles
- Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution
- Define customer business objectives and requirements
- Use a systematic method to evaluate and document a conceptual model
- Create a logical design from a conceptual model
- Recognize key information contained in the physical design
- Module 3 Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning
- Make capacity planning design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design capacity planning strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
- Calculate compute and storage requirements for the VMs in the vSphere environment
- Module 4 Designing for Manageability: Scalability
- Make scalability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design scalability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
- Module 5 Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management
- Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design lifecycle management strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices 6 Designing for Availability
- Make availability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design availability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
- Module 6 Designing for Performance
- Make performance design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design performance strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices 8 Designing for Security
- Make security design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design security strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices 9 Designing for Recoverability
- Make recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design recoverability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
Intended Audience
System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
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Subject: Request for IT Infrastructure & Virtualization training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, VMware vSphere: Design [V8]. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have hands-on, job-ready skills in it infrastructure & virtualization that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in it infrastructure & virtualization. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/vmware-training/vmware-vsphere-design-v8-training/.
Thank you for your consideration,
[Your Name]
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