Table of contents Best practices Reference architecture Different scenarios Enterprise Business requirements Possible constraints Main risks 8899 Some design decisions Small and medium-sized business (SMB) Business requirements Possible constraints Main risks Some design decisions 1122344 Possible constraints Main risks Examples of design decisions Summary Questions Further reading Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing 101 Useful metrics from a physical environment Processor metrics Memory metrics Disk metrics 106 Network metrics Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized? Existing tools to analyze a physical environment 109 VMware Capacity Planner (VCP) 110 Virtual Storage Area Network(VSAN) sizing tools 110 Dell Live Optics 111 Microsoft Assessment and Planning(MAP)Toolkit 111 Assessing an existing virtual environment 112 Discovery and inventory 113 Health check Benchmarks DVD Store Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benchmark(HCIBench) 116 Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment 117 RVTool 119 VOA VMware vSphere Health Check Summary Questions [iiilTable of Contents [ iii ] Best practices 84 Reference architecture 85 VVD 86 Different scenarios 88 Enterprise 88 Business requirements 88 Possible constraints 89 Main risks 89 Some design decisions 89 Small and medium-sized business (SMB) 90 Business requirements 91 Possible constraints 91 Main risks 92 Some design decisions 92 ROBO 93 Business requirements 94 Possible constraints 94 Main risks 95 Examples of design decisions 95 Summary 97 Questions 97 Further reading 98 Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments 99 Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing 101 Useful metrics from a physical environment 103 Processor metrics 103 Memory metrics 104 Disk metrics 106 Network metrics 106 Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized? 107 Existing tools to analyze a physical environment 109 VMware Capacity Planner (VCP) 110 Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) sizing tools 110 Dell Live Optics 111 Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 111 Assessing an existing virtual environment 112 Discovery and inventory 113 Health check 116 Benchmarks 116 DVD Store 116 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benchmark (HCIBench) 116 Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment 117 RVTools 119 VOA 120 VMware vSphere Health Check 121 Summary 122 Questions 122 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||