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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)

Design Documentation

Design documentation provides written documentation of the design factors and the choices that an architect has made in a design to satisfy given business and technical requirements.

Design documentation also aids in the implementation of a design. In many cases where the design architect is not responsible for the implementation, design documents ensure the successful implementation of designs by implementation engineers.

Once you have created the documentation for a few designs, you will be able to develop standard processes and templates to aid in the creation of design documentation in the future.

Documentation can vary from project to project. Many consulting companies and resellers have standard documentation templates that they use when designing solutions. A properly documented design should include a minimum of the following information:

  • Architecture...