This three-day training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere® 7 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security, and that uses VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Identify the business objectives for 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 and best-practice recommendations
• Create a design that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security
• Design the core management infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design the virtual data center for an enterprise
• Design the compute infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design the storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
• Design virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
• Design security, manageability, and recoverability features for an enterprise

• Module 1: Course Introduction
• Module 2: Infrastructure Assessment
• Module 3: Core Management Infrastructure
• Module 4: Virtual Data Center Infrastructure
• Module 5: Compute Infrastructure
• Module 6: Storage Infrastructure
• Module 7: Network Infrastructure
• Module 8: Virtual Machine Design
• Module 9: Infrastructure Security
• Module 10: Infrastructure Manageability
• Module 11: Infrastructure Recoverability

Experienced system integrators and consultants responsible for designing and deploying vSphere environments

This course requires completion of the following prerequisites:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]