Preface
VMware is the industry leader for datacenter virtualization. This second edition of the Datacenter Design Cookbook covers VMware's vSphere 6.x suite of products, which provide a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. The features available in vSphere 6.x simplify management, increase availability, provide security, and guarantee the performance of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter.
The VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x. It does this by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process.
This book steps through the design process from beginning to end, from the discovery process, to creating the conceptual design, to calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design, to mapping the logical requirements to a physical design, and finally creating the design documentation.
This book's recipes provide guidance for making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual datacenter design.
