Course Outline
1 Course Introduction
• Identify the course goals
• Identify the course objectives
• View the course module outline
2 Design Process Overview
• Clarify key terminology
• Identify and discuss design guidelines, design approaches, design sessions, and design decisions and implications, and create a design framework
• Define and describe a framework methodology
• Identify design tools, including the architecture quality matrix, Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3, and the vSphere technology stack
3 VMware vSphere Storage Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical storage
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative storage design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a storage design
4 VMware vSphere Network Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual and physical networks
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative network design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a network design
5 Compute Resources Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about host CPU and memory
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative host design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a host design
6 Virtual Machine Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual machines
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative virtual machine design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a virtual machine design
7 VMware vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about virtual datacenters regarding management server and cluster configuration
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative virtual datacenter design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a virtual datacenter design
8 Management and Monitoring Design
• Identify useful information for making design decisions about management and monitoring
• Recognize and analyze best-practice recommendations
• Analyze alternative management and monitoring design choices
• Communicate choices and their benefits and risks to the customer
• Develop a management and monitoring design