Architectures and Technologies

 

•    Differentiate between conceptual, logical and physical elements of a design
•    Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements
•    Differentiate between Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, Scalability and Security (AMPRSS)

 

 

Planning and Designing 

 

•    Gather and analyze functional requirements
•    Gather and analyze service-level agreement (SLA) requirements
•    Gather network, storage and compute requirements
•    Gather workload design requirements
•    Gather capacity and performance requirements
•    Gather and analyze non-functional requirements
•    Determine security requirements for a vSphere design
•    Determine data protection requirements for a vSphere design
•    Determine business continuity requirements for a vSphere design
•    Determine disaster recovery requirements for a vSphere design
•    Determine compliance requirements for a vSphere design
•    Determine risks, constraints and assumptions for a design

Create a vCenter Server logical design

 

•    Design a single-site, multi-site, multi-region deployment
•    Define a virtual data center design
•    Determine availability requirements for vCenter Server

 

       Create a vSphere cluster logical design

 

•    Differentiate between workload or management clusters
•    Define a workload cluster design

 

        Create a vSphere host logical design

 

•    Recommend compute resource requirements
•    Identify and address scalability requirements
•    Determine hypervisor deployment method

 

        Create a vSphere network logical design

 

•    Determine network protocol needs
•    Design network segregation for different traffic types
•    Determine physical and virtual networking topology

    Create a vSphere storage logical design

 

•    Determine storage topology needs (e.g., SAN, local, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or HCI)
•    Evaluate storage protocols based on a given scenario/requirements
•    Determine different storage segregation techniques based on a given scenario
•    Determine physical and storage connectivity topology

 

      Create a workload logical design

 

•    Determine workload sizing
•    Determine workload placement

 

      Create a vCenter Server physical design

 

•    Determine the correct sizing for vCenter Server based on workload requirements
•    Map clusters to logical design 

Create a vSphere cluster physical design

 

•    Determine the appropriate Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (pDRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM) configurations based on requirements
•    Determine the appropriate Proactive High Availability/High Availability configurations based on requirements
•    Determine the appropriate vSphere Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) configurations based on requirements
•   Determine the appropriate cluster size based on requirements

 

       Create a vSphere host physical design

 

•    Identify the hypervisor deployment method
•    Determine the appropriate host size based on requirements
•    Determine the appropriate host configurations (network adapters, local storage, RAID controller) based on requirements

 

      Create a vSphere network physical design

 

•    Determine bandwidth needs based on requirements
•    Determine NIC teaming and load balancing methods
•    Design VMkernel adapters based on requirements
•    Determine Network I/O Control (NIOC) configurations based on requirements
•    Determine switch type (standard vs distributed) based on requirements

   Create a vSphere storage physical design

 

•    Determine storage multi-pathing and load balancing methods
•    Determine the Storage DRS configuration
•    Determine appropriate datastore configurations based on requirements
•    Determine the physical storage design based on requirements
•   Determine appropriate storage policy based on requirements

 

         Create a workload physical design based on application requirements

 

•    Determine workload virtual hardware (e.g., number of network interface cards (NICs) and type of NIC)
•    Design content library topology