Course number HG802S

Delivery method
Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)

Special notes
Success in this course requires certain prerequisite skills. This short online Pre-test helps you determine whether you possess these needed skills.

Prerequisites
PRE-TEST: Achievement of a passing score on a short on-line pre-test: Click here to take the web-based , pre-class self-test to help you determine if you have the right background to attend the HG802S VMware Infrastructure Design Course.

Audience
System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware Infrastructure architectures.

Course objectives
At the end of the course, you should understand the principles involved 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

Course outline

Introduction

• Principles in designing VMware Infrastructure architectures

Designing for Manageability

• Designing for lower cost of administration

Designing for Availability

• Fault-tolerant, resilient and highly available architectures

Designing for Scalability

• Design considerations for scalability
• Tradeoffs between scaling up versus scaling out resources

Designing Based on Analytical Tools

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

Design Pattern: Remote and Branch Offices

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

Design Pattern: Microsoft SQL Server

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

Design Pattern: Microsoft Active Directory

• Designing virtual domain controllers to minimize management while maximizing performance

Design Pattern: Microsoft Exchange Server

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

• Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
• Certifikat: ne
• Uvjerenje: ne
• In-house: ne
• Svjedodžba: ne
• Diploma: ne