VMW-DES - VMWare Infrastructure Design

Description

Duration: 4 Days

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

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Implementing best practices and evaluating design considerations to meet business needs
• Distributing resources across ESX clusters automatically and ensuring high availability
• Architecting remote and branch offices
• Designing to support certain enterprise applications

Class Size

Minimum of 10 students, Maximum of 14 students

Target Audience

System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware Infrastructure architectures.

Prerequisites

Required:

• Achievement of a passing score on a short, online pretest.

Recommended:

Completion of VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure, or equivalent experience with VMware ESX and VirtualCenter, and administration experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server.

Course Outline

• Module 1: Introduction
  • Fundamental design principles
• Module 2: Designing for Manageability
  • Designing for lower cost of administration
• Module 3: Designing for Availability
  • Fault-tolerant, resilient, and highly available architectures
• Module 4: Designing for Scalability
  • Trade-offs between scaling up versus scaling out resources
• Module 5: Designing Based on Analytical Tools
  • Designing templates based on inventory analysis
  • Sizing a virtual infrastructure based on capacity analysis
• Module 6: Designing for Remote and Branch Offices
  • Centralized and distributed remote office architectures
  • Making remote office information more available
• Module 7: Designing for Remote and Branch Offices
  • Design considerations for online transaction processing (OLTP) versus decision support systems (DSS)
  • Deciding between VMFS, RDM, and a hybrid combination
• Module 8: Designing for Microsoft Active Directory
  • Designing virtual domain controllers to minimize management while maximizing performance
• Module 9: Designing for Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Including Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 server roles