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VMware vSphere: Design [V8]
This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that...
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$2,775 USD
Duration
3 days
Course Code
EDU-VSD8
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Jul 29, 2026 - Jul 31, 2026 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 8, 2026 - Sep 10, 2026 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 4, 2026 - Nov 6, 2026 (3 days)
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Overview
Course Description
This three-day course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vSphere 8 virtual infrastructure. You follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security. The approach presented follows VMware best practices. This course discusses the benefits and risks of available design alternatives and provides information to support making sound design decisions.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Create a vSphere design given a case study.
- Identify and assess the business objectives of the vSphere environment.
- Identify business requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks for all layers in the vSphere environment.
- Apply a framework to a design.
- Analyze design choices for vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines.
- Identify design decisions to ensure manageability, including scalability, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is highly available.
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment performs well.
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment is secure.
- Identify design decisions to ensure that the vSphere environment can recover from data loss or disaster.
Who Can Benefit
- System integrators, Consultants, Solution architects
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the one of the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure
Course Details
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Infrastructure Assessment
- Describe various design framework principles.
- Follow a proven process to design a virtualization solution.
- Define customer business objectives and requirements.
- Use a systematic method to evaluate and document a conceptual model.
- Create a logical design from a conceptual model.
- Recognize key information contained in the physical design.
Designing for Manageability: Capacity Planning
- Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design lifecycle management strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Designing for Manageability: Scalability
- Make scalability design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design scalability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Designing for Manageability: Lifecycle Management
- Make lifecycle management design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design lifecycle management strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Designing for Availability
- Make availability design decisions that adhere to business requirements
- Design availability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices
Designing for Performance
- Make performance design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design performance strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Designing for Security
- Make security design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design security strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Designing for Recoverability
- Make recoverability design decisions that adhere to business requirements.
- Design recoverability strategies that meet the needs of the vSphere environment and follow VMware best practices.
Schedule
3 options available
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Jul 29, 2026 - Jul 31, 2026 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 8, 2026 - Sep 10, 2026 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 4, 2026 - Nov 6, 2026 (3 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EST Language English Select from 1 option(s) below Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EST- Enroll
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