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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

You're reading from   Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers Make the most of software-defined data centers with revolutionary VMware technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464378
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Software-Defined Data Center FREE CHAPTER 2. Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities 3. VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation 4. SDDC Design Considerations 5. VMware vRealize Automation 6. vRealize Orchestrator 7. Service Catalog Creation 8. Network Virtualization using NSX 9. DevOps Considerations 10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring 12. Continuous Improvement

Chapter 4. SDDC Design Considerations

If you have never done any design before, this chapter should give you a good starting point and some useful insights about what is good and proven practice. It will talk about the basic principles you want to put into your design as well as how to document any assumptions constraints and limitations.

The design is probably one of the most important things in any SDDC implementation. However, the design itself will be formed out of the actual requirements and business cases. This is one of the reasons why a business case or at least a use case for an SDDC is very important.

The use case or business case will influence the way the SDDC is configured and shaped, therefore you should put as much effort in documenting the business and use cases, as in creating the initial SDDC design itself.

Another important task is the translation from a business case into a functional design as well as how any technical requirements are directly or indirectly...

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