VMware vSphere: Design

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A high-performance VMware environment starts with an architecture that aligns technical requirements with business objectives. *VMware vSphere: Design* explains how to systematically plan virtual infrastructures using VMware vSphere and make informed design decisions for ESXi and vCenter.

Key Topics

  • Analyzing requirements, constraints, and risks
  • Develop conceptual, logical, and physical vSphere designs
  • Plan compute, storage, and network infrastructures
  • Consider capacity, scalability, and lifecycle management
  • Plan for high availability, performance, and security
  • Integrate recovery and fault tolerance into the architecture

Prerequisite
Prior completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure is recommended.

Target Audience
Solution architects, consultants, and system integrators with experience in VMware vSphere and virtual infrastructures.

The focus is on well-reasoned architectural decisions rather than individual configuration steps—a strong foundation for stable, secure, and scalable VMware vSphere environments.

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Course Content
  • Introduction and Organizational Information
  • Course Objectives
  • Fundamentals of Design Frameworks
  • Planning a Virtualization Solution
  • Defining Business Goals and Requirements
  • Creating and Documenting a Conceptual Model
  • Develop a Logical Design
  • Determining Requirements for the Physical Design
  • Planning Capacity Based on Demand
  • Optimizing vSphere capacity
  • Calculate VM resource requirements
  • Planning Scalability to Meet Your Needs
  • Applying VMware Best Practices
  • Align the Lifecycle with Business Requirements
  • Plan the vSphere lifecycle according to best practices
  • Consider Business Requirements
  • Plan for Availability
  • Develop vSphere strategies
  • Performance Design Based on Business Requirements
  • Optimizing vSphere Performance According to Best Practices
  • Consider Security Requirements
  • Develop vSphere security strategies
  • Plan for Recoverability Based on Your Needs
  • Develop vSphere strategies based on VMware best practices

Frequently Asked Questions

  • It is intended for experienced VMware administrators, system engineers, consultants, and IT architects. Knowledge of vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter is required. It is particularly relevant for those whose future responsibilities will include not only administration but also planning, architecture, and technical design.
  • The focus is on architecture and design decisions. Technical vSphere knowledge forms the foundation but is applied from a new perspective: analyzing requirements, identifying dependencies, and developing appropriate solutions for compute, storage, networking, availability, management, and recovery.
  • Real-world scenarios demonstrate how a vSphere design is developed based on business and technical requirements. In doing so, factors such as capacity, performance, availability, risks, and constraints must be weighed against one another—much like in real-world infrastructure and virtualization projects.
  • The most important areas are ESXi, vCenter Server, virtual machines, clusters, storage, and networking. Knowledge of vSphere HA, DRS, and vMotion is also helpful. This allows for a better understanding of how individual technologies interact within a complete VMware architecture.
  • Technical requirements can be translated into concrete architectural decisions in a more structured way. This is relevant, for example, in new VMware environments, expansions, migrations, or modernizations. Design decisions regarding performance, scalability, high availability, and recoverability can also be evaluated and documented more thoroughly.
  • Yes, especially if you already have practical experience with VMware infrastructures. This training program bridges the gap between administration and architecture, making it ideal for the next career step toward becoming an infrastructure architect, solution designer, or technical consultant.
  • Experience in designing systems is not a mandatory requirement. However, experience in operating VMware environments is important for understanding technical contexts. Design expertise is particularly valuable if you plan to take on more planning, conceptual design, or consulting tasks in the future.
  • A Shift in Perspective: Rather than simply configuring individual components, the entire infrastructure is taken into account. Requirements, risks, and technical dependencies are linked together. This provides an understanding of why a particular vSphere architecture makes sense for an organization and what alternatives are available.
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