Introduction
- Comparative overview of Vblock infrastructure packages
- Vblock 300 Series
- Vblock 700 Series
- Vblock deployment model process overview
- Overview of the course agenda
Vblock Overview and Architecture
- Vblock design governances
- Base infrastructure packages and upgrades
- Scale out and aggregation capabilities
- Reference architectures
- Balanced, pre-tested, de-risked infrastructure
- Vblock component architecture
- Compute
- Network
- Storage
- vSphere
- Management
- Rack configurations
- VCE Design Tools and Documentation
- VCE ACT Tool
- BOM Assemblies and documentation
Vblock Requirements Gathering
- Planning and design process
- Requirements gathering
- Data collection and analysis
- Resource modeling and validation
- Gathering and assessing business requirements
- Calculating total cost of ownership
- Calculating return on investment
- Gathering and assessing technical requirement
- Classifying applications and virtualization candidates
- Network requirements (including backup and replication networks)
- Compute and virtual machine requirements
- Storage requirements (front-end, cache, back-end)
- Data center requirements (floor space, power, cooling)
Vblock Data Collection and Analysis
- Data collection process
- Inventory
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Considerations for consolidation
- Virtual unit sizing
- P2V and V2V migrations
- Data collection tools and metrics
- Inventory tools
- Workload monitoring tools
- Capacity and consolidation planning
- Utilization and capacity planning
- Application placement and consolidation planning
Vblock Compute Design
- Virtual Unit sizing methodology
- Virtual Units
- Virtual Machines
- ESX hosts
- Clusters
- Data centers
- Physical compute planning
- Capacity planning
- Blade selection
- Bare metal considerations
- Chassis activation kits
- Logical compute planning
- Vblock deployment process
- Service profiles and templates
- Pools and policies
Vblock Network Design
- Approach to Vblock network design
- Standardized infrastructure
- Port density and subscription ratios
- Convergence and Workload mobility
- Cisco feature set
- Requirements gathering
- Vblock network sizing
- Network infrastructure components
- Selection of base Vblock model
- Multi-domain configurations
- Storage network considerations
- Mapping logical data flows in Vblock
- Aggregation layer – vPC domains
- Distribution layer – EHV and port channels
- Access layer – 1000v and VIC (including Cisco VN-link)
- Network use cases – application, management
- Designing the logical network architecture
- VLAN design and documentation
- Layer 2 and 3 addressing schemas
- Subscription ratios and QoS
- High availability and link dedication
Vblock Storage Design
- Approach to Vblock storage design
- Vblock model selection
- Storage array configuration
- SAN zoning
- Mapping and masking
- Logical storage planning
- Different types of storage used in Vblock
- Availability requirements (RAID, PowerPath/VE, hot spares)
- Tiered storage requirements (disk technologies)
- Fast Cache
- Data layout – RAID, meta devices, virtual provisioning
- Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST VP)
- Storage design considerations
- Virtual provisioning design considerations (pool layout)
- Boot from SAN design considerations
- Data protection and replication design considerations
- Raw capacity storage calculation
- Storage configurations by Vblock model
- Software suite selection by Vblock model
- Fabric design considerations
- VAAI enablement
Vblock Management Design
- Approach to Vblock management design
- Service delivery
- Lifecycle management
- Systems integration and orchestration
- Alignment with business objectives
- Vblock management model selection and sizing
- Advanced Management POD (AMP)
- Management components (mini-AMP and HA-AMP)
- Scale-out management infrastructure
- Management platforms and operational considerations
- Cisco (UCS, MDS, Nexus)
- EMC (VNX, VMAX, Ionix)
- VMware (vCenter)
- Integration of authentication servers
- Roles-based access controls
- Designing a service delivery model for Vblock
- Vblock Cloud Computing management model
- Capturing ITSM requirements
- Capturing service-level objectives
- UIM Service delivery mode
- UIM Provisioning center (IaaS service catalog)
- UIM Operations center (event and incident management)
- UIM Configuration center (compliance and change management)
- Integration Vblock management infrastructure with third party systems
- Workflow orchestration
- Chargeback and billing
- ESM framework integration
- BPMS integration
Vblock Virtual Infrastructure Design
- Vblock virtual infrastructure design, based on
- Business and service-level objectives
- Architectural and functional requirements
- Performance and scalability requirements
- Availability requirements
- Operational requirements
- Security requirements
- Characterizing application workloads for consolidation
- Identifying application environments
- Inventorying existing application environments
- Collecting utilization and performance metrics
- Characterizing application workloads
- Ranking application workloads in terms of resource utilization
- N-tier applications and application dependencies
- Defining requirements and boundaries for multi-tenancy
- Identifying tenant organizations
- Identifying customer requirements for multi-tenancy
- Developing a model for infrastructure segregation (compute, network, and storage)
- Capturing service-level objectives and defining service tiers
- Performance service tiers and controls (DRS, NIOC, QoS, SIOC)
- Availability service tiers and controls (VMware HA, SRM, vStorage APIs for Data Protection)
- Security tiers and controls (using VMware, Cisco, EMC security platforms)