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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook
VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook: Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7 , Third Edition

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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

The Discovery Process

This chapter will introduce you to design factors and focus on the discovery phase of the design process. The following diagram displays the phases of the design process:

Phases of the design process

Discovery is the most important phase of the design process. It is also the most time-consuming. The discovery process includes a meeting with the stakeholders to determine business requirements that the design must meet. It also includes current state assessments to determine the technical requirements that the design must satisfy in order to meet customer requirements, which in turn become the design requirements.

During the discovery process, an architect must interact with many different individuals in an organization to collect the necessary information that is needed to begin creating the conceptual design. Decision makers, strategic planners, facilities...

Identifying the design factors

The design factors are the primary considerations that influence the design. These factors define the function that the design must accomplish, how it should accomplish it, and what may prevent the design from accomplishing it.

How to do it...

The design factors encompass much more than just the physical resources, such as the CPU, memory, and storage, necessary to run workloads in a virtual environment.

Identifying the design factors needs the following requirements:

  • Functional and nonfunctional requirements
  • Constraints
  • Assumptions
  • Risks

How it works...

...

Identifying stakeholders

A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in or benefits from the design. A virtual data center design will have at least some impact on many, if not all, areas of an organization and not just those associated with technology.

How to do it...

Identify the key stakeholders, including the following:

  • Project sponsors
  • Application owners and providers
  • System, network, and storage administrators
  • Application users

How it works...

Understanding the role of the stakeholders helps an architect to identify who can provide the information necessary to...

Conducting stakeholder interviews

During the discovery process, the primary source of information will be stakeholder interviews. These interviews can be face-to-face meetings or can be done over the phone (or the web). Interviews are not only helpful in collecting information about the business needs and technical requirements, but also keep the stakeholders engaged in the project.

How to do it...

The following are examples of the questions that should be asked in order to determine the business requirements that will influence the design:

  • What are the business initiatives, challenges, and goals?
  • Are there Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in place? What are they?
  • What are the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point...

Using VMware Capacity Planner

VMware's Capacity Planner is an inventory and planning tool available to VMware partner organizations, which collects resource utilization information from systems, analyzes the data against industry-standard reference data, and provides the information needed to successfully consolidate the servers into a virtualized environment.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to complete a Capacity Planner engagement:

  1. Determine the amount of time for which the Capacity Planner engagement should run based on the business cycle
  2. Choose the type of Capacity Planner assessment to be run: a Consolidation Estimate (CE) or a Capacity Assessment (CA)
  3. Deploy the Capacity Planner collector in the environment...

Using Windows Performance Monitor

The Microsoft Windows perfmon can be used to collect performance information, such as CPU utilization, memory utilization, and disk I/O utilization of the Windows servers.

How to do it...

In this example, Microsoft Windows perfmon is used to collect disk I/O metrics, with the following steps:

  1. Open Performance Monitor and use the Data Collector Set wizard to create a user-defined data collector, as displayed in the following screenshot:
Creating a user-defined data collector in Performance Monitor
  1. Once the Data Collector Set application has been created, add New | Data Collector to the Data Collector Set, as shown in the following screenshot:
Adding a new Data Collector in Performance...

Conducting a VMware optimization assessment

The VMware Optimization Assessment (VOA) is an enhanced evaluation of vRealize Operations Manager, which includes reports providing information about the configuration, capacity, and performance of a vSphere environment. This information is useful for an administrator or architect validating an existing vSphere deployment or planning an expansion to an existing vSphere deployment.

The VOA will provide useful insights into a virtual environment by providing detail analytics, including the following:

  • Providing information on misconfigured clusters, hosts, and virtual machines
  • Identifying potential performance problems with root cause analysis
  • Analyzing virtual machine resources to identify undersized and/or oversized virtual machines, providing opportunities to attain a right-size environment

The information gathered during a VOA will...

Identifying dependencies

A dependency is a relationship among systems or services. During the discovery process, dependencies should be identified and documented. In Chapter 1, The Virtual Data Center, we discussed the importance of taking an holistic view when designing a virtualized environment. Identifying dependencies is the key to the holistic approach of designing.

How to do it...

An architect must identify dependencies in order to understand what effect a design decision or change may have on other services. The architect should identify the following dependencies:

  • Physical infrastructure dependencies
  • Application and service dependencies
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  • Learn how to create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation
  • A practical guide that will help you apply infrastructure design principles to vSphere design

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VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.

Who is this book for?

If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components), this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Identify key factors related to a vSphere design
  • Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
  • Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
  • Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
  • Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
  • Create professional vSphere design documentation
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
The Virtual Data Center Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Discovery Process Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Design Factors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
vSphere Management Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
vSphere Storage Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
vSphere Network Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
vSphere Compute Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Virtual Machine Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Hersey Cartwright and Mike Brown have done an excellent job at putting together a book which will help those looking to either upgrade to vSphere 6.7 or install vSphere 6.7. They share background information and then dig into how to do it. This design cookbook is just that, a design cookbook. If you are looking to move into an architectural role, look no further to help in making that step from being behind the scenes to built out the product to engaging the business side. Hersey and Mike bring their decades of experience together to help guide the reader from discovery to design to approval through implementation.I would recommend this as a book that if you are going to implement vSphere 6.7, it should be necessary to read it through.
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