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This hands-on training course explores the foundations of designing VMware Infrastructure architectures.

Prerequisite Skills Self-Assessment

To gain the most from this course, you should possess the ability to:

• Install VMware ESX on a local volume
• Install VMware vCenter and add an ESX server to its inventory
• Build a Windows virtual machine using the VMware Infrastructure Client
• Create a template in vCenter and deploy a virtual machine from it
• Configure access to iSCSI storage on your ESX server
• Create a VMFS datastore on shared storage
• Migrate a virtual machine using VMware vMotion
• Apply migration recommendations in a VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster
• Send an SNMP notification when a virtual machine-based alarm is triggered
• Configure VMware High Availability to successfully fail over virtual machines during a host failure

Certification

This course is not required for the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification. In fact, the content of the course is a subset of the knowledge tested in the VCDX examinations. Therefore, the course is most appropriate for persons who are new to designing virtual infrastructures and who intend to gain further hands-on design experience before beginning the VCDX process.

Highlights

• Implement best practices and evaluate design considerations to meet business needs
• Distribute resources across ESX clusters automatically and ensure high availability
• Architect remote and branch offices
• Design to support certain enterprise applications

Course Outline

1. Fundamental Design Principles

2. Designing for Manageability

• Designing for lower administration cost

3. Designing for Availability

• Fault-tolerant, resilient, and highly available architectures

4. Designing for Scalability

• Trade-offs between scaling up vs. scaling out resources

5. Designing Based on Analytical Tools

• Designing templates based on inventory analysis
• Sizing a virtual infrastructure based on capacity analysis

6. Designing for Remote and Branch Offices

• Centralized and distributed remote office architectures
• Making remote office information more available

7. Designing for Microsoft SQL Server

• Design considerations for online transaction processing (OLTP) vs. decision support systems (DSS)
• Deciding between VMFS, RDM, and a hybrid combination

8. Designing for Microsoft Active Directory

• Designing virtual domain controllers to minimize management while maximizing performance

9. Designing for Microsoft Exchange Server

• Including Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 server roles

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