VMware Infrastructure: Design v3 (3.5)

London (EC4)

01/06/10

£

1,500

Berkshire

Theale (RG7)

13/04/10

£

1,495

Theale (RG7)

22/06/10

£

1,495

Hampshire

Hook (RG27)

17/05/10

£

1,995

Yorkshire (West)

Leeds (LS12)

08/06/10

£

1,500

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Course Overview

This instructor led training course explores how to design VMware Infrastructure architectures with a focus on manageability, availability and scalability.

This course starts where I & C and DSA leaves off; It looks at how to design your infrastructures with real environments in mind. Looking at typical Microsoft servers and architectures this course shows how you can tweak the environment to get the best out of your system.

Note, this course does not lead to the VCDX certification.

Audience

The course is designed for those who are designing and architecting VI3 solutions. Delegates should have knowledge of VI3, as well as administration experience of Microsoft SQL, Exchange servers and AD.

Skills Gained

At the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the principles in designing VMware Infrastructure architectures:

• 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 Microsoft Active Directory, SQL server and Exchange Server
• Best practices and labs exercises are interspersed throughout the course. Storage replication is covered in the course, to allow delegates to set up a real SRM DR environment.

Prerequisites

• A passing score in a short online prerequisite test is required.

Course Outline

Mod 1: Introduction

• Principles of designing VMware Infrastructure architectures

Mod 2: Designing for Manageability

• Designing for lower cost of administration

Mod 3: Designing for Availability

• Fault-tolerant, resilient, and highly available architectures

Mod 4: Designing for Scalability

• Design considerations for scalability
• Trade-offs between scaling up versus scaling out resources

Mod 5: Designing based on Analytical tools

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

Mod 6: Designing for Remote and Branch offices

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

Mod 7: Designing for Microsoft SQL Server

• Designing an architecture to support SQL Server
• Design considerations for online transaction processing (OLTP) versus decision support systems (DSS)
• Deciding between VMFS, RDM, and a hybrid combination

Mod 8: Designing for Microsoft Active Directory

• Designing virtual domain controllers to minimize management while maximizing performance

Mod 9: Designing for Microsoft Exchange Server

• Designing an architecture to support Exchange Server, including Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 server roles