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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

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. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Writing an implementation plan

The implementation plan documents the requirements necessary to complete the implementation of the design.

The implementation plan defines the project roles and defines what is expected of the customer and what they can expect during the implementation of the design.

This document is sometimes referred to as the statement of work. It defines the key points of contact, the requirements that must be satisfied to start the implementation, any project documentation deliverables, and how changes to the design and implementation will be handled.

How to do it...

The implementation plan should generally follow the below format.

  1. Write a purpose statement
  2. Include project contacts
  3. State the implementation...