Wiley VMware vSphere Design 978-0-470-92202-6 ユーザーズマニュアル

Designing VMware vSphere environments can be a complex topic, one that means many differ-
ent things to many different people. In this chapter, we’ll provide an introduction to designing 
VMware vSphere implementations. This introduction will give a preview of some of the more 
detailed discussions that take place in later chapters, and will provide a framework for how all 
the other chapters fi t into the overall process.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

 

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The importance of functional requirements in VMware vSphere design

 

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The what, who, and how questions involved in VMware vSphere design and why they’re 
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An overview of the VMware vSphere design process

When we talk about “designing your VMware vSphere environment,” what exactly does that 
mean? In the context of VMware vSphere, what is design? What does design entail? These are 
excellent questions — questions that we intend to answer in this chapter and the coming chap-
ters throughout this book.

In our defi nition, design is the  process of determining the way in which the different elements 

that make up a VMware vSphere environment should be assembled and confi gured to create a 
virtual infrastructure that is strong yet fl exible. Design also includes the process of determin-
ing how this virtual infrastructure will integrate with existing infrastructure as well as how the 
virtual infrastructure will be operated after the implementation is complete.

That’s a reasonable defi nition; but for someone who is new to VMware vSphere design, does 

this really describe what design is? Does it help understand the nature of design, or what makes 
up a design?

In looking at a VMware vSphere design, you can say that VMware vSphere design has three 

key facets: the technical or structural facet, the organizational facet, and the operational facet. 
Figure 1.1 shows how these three facets are all part of the larger entity that we refer to as design.

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