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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5: Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

This chapter describes how to plan a virtualization project and build a good infrastructure, by providing an approach both for the planning and the design; from how to map business requirements to technical requirements to how to move from a conceptual design to a logical and physical design.

To support those phase, are suggested different methodologies and different documents such as best practices, reference architectures, and guidelines.

In this chapter, we will learn how to:

  • Approach a virtual infrastructure project
  • Understand business requirements, constraints, and risks
  • Perform conceptual, logical, and physical designs
  • Use best practices, reference architectures, and validate designs in the right a proper way
  • Approach different scenarios—SMB, ROBO enterprise

Plan a virtual infrastructure project

A virtualization project is like every other business-related process and should follow a set of proven methodologies and a flow to manage it in the right way. In each methodology, the first step is the planning and designing part, where you must define your objectives and how to reach them properly. There are several methodologies and approaches for managing the life cycle of a product or process, but for a virtualization project, we could consider the typical plan-do-check-act (PDCA) workflow, which is based on the following four main steps:

  • Plan: This phase establishes the objectives and processes necessary to deliver all of the results in accordance with the expected business requirements. In this phase, you will also produce a design for the solution.
  • Do: This is the implementation phase, according to the previous plan and is usually...

Assess

In this phase, it’s really important to identify and interact with the key stakeholders, and to collect all the requirements in order to deliver a design that meets all customer and business needs. Sometimes the importance of this phase is underestimated, or it is simply not performed at all, perhaps because of time or budget constraints. This can be a huge risk for the project itself.

Also remember that, if you are providing a professional service (as a consultant or as a solution partner), you should prepare for this phase with pre-engagement planning and a kick-off in order to be prepared for the engagement. Also, if the project is handled internally, inside a customer, a successful engagement requires the right participants, defining the different roles, and good sponsors.

Tasks in the assessment phase include the following:

  • Review the current state of the existing...

Design

The design process is well covered in the VMware vSphere Design Workshop course. But the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification also provides some useful information; the entire path of VCDX-DCV certification provides a complete VCDX methodology. This methodology is focused on how to find business needs and how to map them to design and implement decisions.

Also, if you are not VCDX certified, you can learn about this type of approach from the VCDX Boot Camp, the VCDX Blueprint, or the books and posts written by other VCDX users.

Following the VCDX methodology, or a similar one, you can have a deep look at how a large number of variables can affect the design of a virtual infrastructure. Some effects may define some creativities or risks, but also, any assumptions that are unknown or that you are unsure of should be considered risks as, depending on their probability...

Different scenarios

There are different types of typical scenarios where most use cases can fit, but much can also depend on the type of workload and business requirements.

We will consider and discuss, at the high level, just three different cases: Enterprise, SMB, ROBO. For other, more specific examples, such as for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), there are several reference architectures, and also some specific VVDs:

Typical company sizes

Enterprise

Large companies are usually qualified, by their size, as enterprise or corporate. Their business needs are usually very strictly defined and almost all workloads can be really business critical, including infrastructure workloads such as the vCenter Server.

The number...

Summary

This chapter has explained how to approach a virtualization project, using reference architectures and best practices, from the analysis of requirements, constraints, and risks to the different types of design(conceptual, logical, and physical). Network and storage aspects we discussed, as were different vCenter Server and ESXi design and planning aspects.

Three different scenarios have been used as examples of some design decisions—SMB, Enterprise, and ROBO.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the other phases, like the initial assessment for an existing environment, useful for planning and design.

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Key benefits

  • •This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on.
  • • Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters
  • • Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease.

Description

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.

Who is this book for?

If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • • Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities
  • • Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5
  • • Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources
  • • Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation)
  • • Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments.
  • • Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure.
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Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deployment Workflow and Component Installation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Securing and Protecting Your Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I bought this book because I wanted to learn the best practices to implement VMware vSphere 6.5. I had also read several books on previous versions of VMware vSphere. from 5.0 to 6.0. This book has given me several ideas and reading is easy and fast. Well done!
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