Duration
5 days
Overview
This course covers in-depth details and considerations for planning, designing and migrating to Virtualized Data Centers (VDC) and Cloud environments. This course will enable data center technology professionals to design VDC and Cloud infrastructures maintaining the most robust and elastic compute, network, and storage environments. The course will be premised on an ‘open’ architecture focused on core components, principles, and technologies constituting both VDC and Cloud deployments utilizing best-of-breed EMC examples. This training is designed to be at the forefront of the changing IT landscape as traditional physical data centers evolve and morph into virtual entities and cloud environments.
Audience
This course is intended for architects, designers and consultants who are involved in the planning and design of Virtual Data Center components, including applications, servers, storage, networks and services.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should be a technical professional with three or more years of design experience in storage, operating systems, networking, business continuity and disaster recovery.
Recommended prerequisites include: EMC Information Storage and Management (EMCISA), EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS), VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and/or Cisco Certified Design Architect (CCDA).
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Differentiate between virtualization and Cloud concepts and capabilities including core VDC components and Cloud elements
- Perform an application inventory and analysis of the existing application environment
- Recommend strategies for migrating applications to a VDC
- Examine how key Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) considerations impact VDC or Cloud planning and design
- Evaluate compute, storage and network virtualization technologies
- Design a VDC infrastructure to meet established application, business, technology and GRC requirements
- Define Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- Evaluate new management techniques to support services and IaaS
Course Outline
Virtualized Data Center and Cloud Introduction
Application Assessment and Migration Planning
- Assessing Business Requirements and the Application Environment
- Performing an Application Inventory Analysis
- Virtualizing Server-based Applications
- Virtualizing Desktop and Client Applications
- Developing a Migration Plan
Governance, Risk and Compliance
- GRC Definitions and Introduction
- Risk, Compliance and Standards
- Planning and Design
Designing a Virtual Compute Environment
- Key Technology Review
- Evaluating Hypervisor Options
- Designing the Hypervisor Environment
Designing Virtualized Storage
- Key Technology Review
- Evaluating Storage Options
- Designing the Storage Environment
Designing Networks in a Virtual Data Center
- Key Technology Review
- Evaluating LAN and SAN Options
- Designing the LAN and SAN Environment
- Evaluating WAN Options
- Designing the WAN Environment
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- What is IaaS?
- Services and Service Management
- Business Transformation
In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participant.
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