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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook This recipe-driven tutorial is the easy way to master VMware vSphere to design a virtual datacenter. You'll learn in simple steps that cover everything from initial groundwork to creating professional design documentation.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782177005

Length 260 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Hersey Cartwright

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. The Virtual Datacenter

2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER

3. The Design Factors

4. The vSphere Management Design

5. The vSphere Storage Design

6. The vSphere Network Design

7. The vSphere Compute Design

8. The vSphere Physical Design

9. The Virtual Machine Design

10. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

11. The Design Documentation

Index

Developing an installation guide

The installation guide provides step-by-step instructions for the implementation of the architecture design. This guide should include detailed information about how to implement and configure all the resources associated with the virtual datacenter project.

In many projects, the person creating the design is not the person responsible for implementing the design. The installation guide outlines the steps necessary to implement the physical design outlined in the architecture design document.

The installation guide should provide details about the installation of all components, including the storage and network configurations required to support the design. In a complex design, multiple installation guides may be created to document the installation of the various components required to support the design. For example, separate installation guides may be created for the storage, network, and vSphere installation and configuration.