VMware vSphere 6.5: Fast Track

Completion of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere 6.7: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM)
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale (VOS)
• Or equivalent experience with vSphere deployments

• Assess the business and application requirements of the current environment
• Understand and apply a framework to a design
• Analyze design choices and best-practice recommendations
• Design and deploy the core management infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design and deploy the virtual data center for an enterprise
• Design and deploy the compute infrastructure for an enterprise
• Design and deploy the storage and networking infrastructures for an enterprise
• Design and deploy virtual machines to run applications in a vSphere infrastructure
• Design and deploy security, management, and recoverability features for an enterprise

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Infrastructure Assessment

• Define customer business objectives
• Gather and analyze business and application requirements
• Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
• Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
• Create a conceptual design

3 Core Management Infrastructure

• Determine the number of vCenter Server instances to include in a design
• Choose appropriate platforms for vCenter Server components and databases
• Design a vCenter Server deployment topology that is appropriate for the size and requirements of the data center
• Review a core management infrastructure design and deploy it as designed

4 Virtual Data Center Infrastructure

• Calculate total capacity requirements for a design
• Create a virtual data center cluster design that meets business and workload requirements
• Evaluate the use of various management services, such as VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™, in the virtual data center design
• Evaluate the use of resource pools in the virtual data center design
• Deploy virtual data center components for the given vSphere design

5 Compute Infrastructure

• Create a compute infrastructure design that includes the appropriate ESXi boot, installation, and configuration options
• Choose the ESXi host hardware for the compute infrastructure
• Review a compute infrastructure design and deploy it as designed
• Configure and run a script to automate ESXi host installation

6 Storage Infrastructure

• Calculate storage capacity and performance requirements for a design
• Evaluate the use of different storage platform and storage management solutions
• Design a storage platform and storage management architecture that meets the needs of the environment
• Review a storage platform design and deploy it as designed
• Review a storage management design and deploy it as designed

7 Network Infrastructure

• Evaluate the use of different network component and network management solutions
• Design a network component architecture that includes information about network segmentation and virtual switch types
• Review a network component design and deploy it as designed
• Design a network management architecture that meets the needs of the environment
• Review a storage management design and deploy it as designed

8 Virtual Machine Design

• Make virtual machine design decisions, including decisions for resources
• Design virtual machines that meet the needs of the applications in the environment
• Review a virtual machine design and deploy it as designed

9 Infrastructure Security

• Make security design decisions for various layers in the vSphere environment
• Design a security strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
• Review an infrastructure security design and deploy it as designed

10 Infrastructure Manageability

• Make VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ design decisions that meet the requirements of the data center
• Review a vSphere Update Manager architecture design and deploy it as designed
• Make infrastructure management design decisions for the required areas
• Design an infrastructure management strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
• Review an infrastructure management design and deploy it as designed

11 Infrastructure Recoverability

• Make infrastructure recoverability design decisions in the required areas
• Design an infrastructure recoverability strategy that meets the needs of the vSphere environment
• Review an infrastructure recoverability design and deploy it as designed