VMware vSphere 5 – Datacenter Design: Creating vSphere Conceptual and Logical Designs

Overview/Description
The first step in developing a vSphere design is creating a conceptual design. The purpose of the conceptual design is to provide a high level outline of all business requirements and components. This course explains the process of gathering and analyzing business requirements and analyzing application requirements as well as how to determine any risks constraints and assumptions. Once you have your conceptual design completed, you can move ahead to creating the logical design which details how the network components such as switches, hosts, and storage work with or depend on one another. The logical design is used to evaluate the conceptual - l design without specifying such details as physical hostnames, network addresses, or connection types. This course explains how to create a vSphere logical design from an existing conceptual design.

Target Audience
Systems engineers, system administrators, vSphere operators and support personnel working in virtualized server environments. Candidates who are seeking to learn about design and integration options available in the vSphere Enterprise product. This includes, deploying and configuring VirtualCenter Server Appliances, upgrading vSphere components, creating a Conceptual, Logical, and Physical vSphere Designs, as well as implementation planning. A solid technical foundation in virtualization using vSphere coupled with strong network and administration skills are required as a prerequisite for this path.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

VMware vSphere 5 – Datacenter Design: Creating vSphere Conceptual and Logical Designs

describe how to go about defining baselines

differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements

identify guidelines for analyzing application requirements

recognize how to determine application requirements

identify relevant factors when determining application dependencies in Sharepoint 2013

recognize how your design will be impacted

recognize examples of risks, constraints, and assumptions

describe how to put everything together into a conceptual design

distinguish active and passive discovery in mapping service dependencies

identify factors to consider when planning for redundancy

identify business continuity planning considerations

recognize how to build manageability requirements into the logical design

recognize principles for building performance requirements into the logical design