VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook: Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x , Second Edition

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Hersey Cartwright

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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Chapter 2. The Discovery Process

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Identifying the design factors
Identifying stakeholders
Conducting stakeholder interviews
VMware Capacity Planner
Using Windows Performance Monitor
Conducting a VMware Optimization Assessment
Identifying dependencies

Identifying stakeholders

A stakeholder is anyone who has an interest in or benefits from the design. A virtual datacenter 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 identify who can provide the information necessary to design a successful virtual datacenter solution. The details of the stakeholders and their roles are specified in the following table:

Stakeholders

Roles

C-level executives

Chief executive officer

Chief financial officer

Chief technology officer

Strategic planning for the organization
Setting up business policies and goals
Budget approval
Project sponsorship

Business unit managers or directors

Strategic planning for the business...

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Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6
Achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center
Exciting and practical recipes help you to design a virtual data easily by leveraging the features of VMware vSphere 6

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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. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter. This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation. The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.

Who is this book for?

If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized datacenter environments using VMware vSphere 6.x or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components, this book is for you. It will help both new and experienced architects deliver professional VMware vSphere virtual datacenter designs.

What you will learn

Identify key factors related to a vSphere design and apply them to every step of the design process
Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design.
Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
Determine the type of database to use based on the deployment size.
Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
Create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation of the vSphere design
Leverage the latest vSphere 6.x features to ensure manageability, performance, availability, and security in a virtual datacenter design

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dcdcdc Dec 20, 2017

Quality material as usual from Hersey. I find it very valuable to have the newer version (in addition to the 5.x) for my needs.

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Kim Bottu Aug 12, 2016

Whether you are a seasoned architect who still is getting familiar with vSphere 6 or a hands-on engineer who likes to get a firmer grip on design and architecture using vSphere 6, Hersey’s updated datacenter cookbook just might be just the book you need.This book graciously keeps a good balance between datacenter design principles, best practices and howto’s. In this book Hersey takes you by the hand and guides you through the steps needed to create a virtual datacenter design using vSphere 6.Besides the necessary theoretical explanations Hersey offers his readers 75 recipes which they can use to help with the creation or optimization of a virtual datacenter design: What are the prerequisites you need for a design? Who do you have to talk to? What are goals, requirements, risks and assumptions? How do you create a conceptual, logical and physical design? How do you need to calculate how many CPU, RAM or storage you need? What are the new features in vSphere 6 which might be important to my design? What basic design documentation do you need to create and how do you create it?Across both versions of Hersey’s book the design principles have remained the same but there is no denying that vSphere 6 has a lot of differences which set it apart from vSphere 5.x. As such Hersey’s design recipes which have been modified to reflect a vSphere 6 virtual datacenter design where needed, should be a welcome read for everyone. The structure of the book:This book contains one chapter more than its predecessor and caps now at 12 chapters. It goes without saying that datacenter security is becoming more and more important and as such security has been assigned its own chapter. Personally I think this is a very welcome addition.Here are some of the highlights for me:I really have tried to find my personal highlights in this book but the thing is, in a design all of items touched in the chapters of this book are equally important. To single out some chapters as I have done in some other reviews would not only do dishonor to this book but also to the design and architecture principles themselves.So let me tell you why I think this book is great:– A lot of aspiring architects have a tendency to look at architecture from a technical perspective first but a change in architecture should be driven by a business need. Hersey addresses this really well in the discovery process in chapter 2. In short: A discovery process is a mix of finding out what the business needs and discovering the design factors based on requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks.– This book reads like someone is giving you an excellent classroom experience using only a book as a medium. Just like its predecessor, the second edition of Hersey’s book “VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook” has a very good and clear structure. Each chapter builds upon the previous chapters, and where needed examples are given.– To me and many of my friends, acquaintances and peers who have joined me on the road to VCAP5-DCD, Hersey’s previous book was a must read while preparing for exam-day. We had a good reason to read the “VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook”: It explained in an easy to understand fashion many of the topics required to know to pass the VCAP5-DCD exam and the exercises in the book were easy to follow and understand as well. Personally I would advice anyone to add this book to the collection of books to read prior to taking the VCAP6-DCV Design exam.Why this book stands out from the crowd:As an instructor with the VMware IT Academy program at the Tidewater Community College Hersey Cartwright knows how important a good course structure is and how critical that structure is to make sure the message will come over loud and clear. This book is a very good example of good structure. The theory, the design principles and best practices in this book are explained in such a fashion that they are easy to follow.If you are new to design and architecture, finding the right literature to get started might be daunting. Basic principles about good design and architecture should be easily understandable for people new to these topics. Hersey’s book is a real success in this.

Arnab Jun 14, 2017

Excellent Book.

Rajeev Feb 26, 2019

Best book for vmware

Daniel P Jun 06, 2018

Hersey does an incredible job of laying out everything you need to understand from assessing, designing, validating, and implementing a VMware vSphere architecture. While this does cover vSphere 6.0, these topics are still very applicable and cover much of the design methodology found in VMware Education courses.

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook: Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x , Second Edition

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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Chapter 2. The Discovery Process

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Identifying the design factors

How to do it…

How it works…

Identifying stakeholders

How to do it…

How it works…

Conducting stakeholder interviews

How to do it…

VMware Capacity Planner

How to do it…

How it works…

Using Windows Performance Monitor

How to do it…

Introduction

Identifying the design factors

How to do it…

How it works…

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