Mapping vSphere Capabilities to Solutions
Welcome to Module 3, Mapping vSphere Capabilities to Solutions. These are the topics that will be covered in this module.
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Module Overview
By the time you have completed this module, you will be able to select vSphere
components to meet solution requirements by identifying the capabilities and benefits of each solution component in order to present its value proposition.
The module presents a series of customer scenarios that define specific requirements and constraints.
You will be asked to select vSphere components to meet solution requirements by identifying the capabilities and benefits of each solution component in order to present its value proposition.
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OPEX Savings Scenario
The Clarke County Library has decided to overhaul its server infrastructure in order to improve supportability and hopefully reduce ongoing expenditure.
They have a highly variable server workload that peaks during the 3 - 8pm period on weekdays and all day (9am to 6pm) on Saturdays but outside of those periods server loads on all metrics is typically < 25% of the average during the peak periods.
While out-of-hours load is substantially lower they run a number of critical systems that have to achieve four nines service uptime.
Their CapEx request needs to demonstrate that any investment will enable substantial OpEx savings.
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OPEX Savings Scenario What is the correct answer?
Which advanced vSphere service do they need to meet the library's requirements?
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OPEX Savings Scenario
Why is DPM the correct vSphere service to meet their requirements?
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Shared Access Optimization Scenario
Mornington Design has an existing vSphere environment running with a vSphere standard license. All of the VMs are provisioned from a single iSCSI SAN.
Their business critical data warehousing and Exchange E-mail servers are experiencing variable performance degradation during peak hours due to contention with other non-critical virtual machines whose workloads can temporarily stress the overall SAN performance.
While they could implement a new independent SAN to isolate their business-critical virtual machines they are looking for a mechanism to optimize the shared access to the datastores during peak times when they suffer from contention.
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Shared Access Optimization Scenario What is the correct answer?
Which advanced vSphere service do they need at Mornington Design to meet their requirements?
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Shared Access Optimization Scenario
Why is Storage I/O Control (SIOC) the correct vSphere service for Mornington Design?
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Migrating to 10Gb Ethernet Scenario
Bulldog Clothing have decided to upgrade their existing vSphere cluster hardware with newer servers and want to migrate all of their core networks over to 10Gb Ethernet at the same time.
As they move from 1Gb to 10Gb, they want to move away from their former policy of dedicated individual network uplinks to specific services.
They want a solution that will help them aggregate diverse workloads into the reduced number of 10Gb Ethernet uplink adapters that their new hardware will be outfitted with.
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Migrating to 10Gb Ethernet Scenario
Which advanced vSphere feature does Bulldog Clothing need to meet their requirements?
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Migrating to 10Gb Ethernet Scenario
Why is Network I/O Control the correct vSphere feature to meet their requirements?
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Data Recovery (DR) Scenario
Alleyn & Associates are an accountancy firm with a number of small satellite offices with 20-30 staff each, and a centralized head office where IT support and the core
infrastructure are located.
They are already using small vSphere clusters with 3 hosts in each office to provide all services, and staff work on Virtual Desktops.
There is no consistent standard for shared storage, with some sites using NFS arrays and some using FC storage.
A recent flooding incident resulted in significant downtime in one satellite office as they do not have an effective disaster recovery (DR) process for their remote sites.
They would like to use storage array replication for DR but the diverse range of storage solutions they use makes the cost of this prohibitive.
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Data Recovery Scenario
Which advanced vSphere feature do Alleyn & Associates need to meet their requirements?
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Data Recovery Scenario
Why is vSphere Replication the correct vSphere feature for Alleyn & Associates?
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Business Critical Systems Scenario
Catskills Shipping Inc. provides an online order fulfillment service for a range of component businesses.
Their front-end order handling system is business critical and they cannot tolerate any service downtime at all.
They want to move from a physical infrastructure to virtual in order to improve hardware maintainability, but this will require them to abandon their current high availability
clustering solution as it is not supported in virtual environments.
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Business Critical Systems Scenario
Which advanced vSphere feature do Catskills Shipping need to meet their requirements?
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Business Critical Systems Scenario
Why is vSphere Fault Tolerance the correct vSphere feature for Catskills Shipping?
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Course Review
This concludes the course vSphere Overview.
Now that you have finished this course, you should be able to:
·Provide an overview of vSphere as part of VMware‟s Vision and Cloud Infrastructure Solution,
·Describe the physical and virtual topologies of a vSphere 5.5 Data Center and explain the relationship between the physical components and the vSphere Virtual
Infrastructure,
·Describe the features and capabilities of vSphere and explain their key benefits for a customer,
·Describe the vSphere Hypervisor Architecture and explain its key features, capabilities and benefits, and
·Map vSphere Components to solution benefits and identify value propositions.
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Course 2
VTSP V5.5 Course 2: VMware vSphere: vCenter
Welcome to the VTSP 5.5 Course 2: VMware vSphere: vCenter.
There are three modules in this course as shown here.
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Course Objectives
After you complete this course, you should be able to:
·Explain the components and features of vCenter
·Communicate design choices to facilitate the selection of the correct vCenter solution configuration
·Explore the customer‟s requirements to define any dependencies that those requirements will create.
·Explain the key features and benefits of the distributed services to illustrate the impact those features will have on a final design.
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