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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

You're reading from   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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789801514
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright Hersey Cartwright
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center 2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition
Published in: Mar 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789801514
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