course | VMware vSphere Advanced Professional Design

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 and management clusters
• Define a workload cluster design

 

Create a vSphere host logical design
 

• Recommend computing 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 an 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