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#vBrownBag.IT
10 Dic 2013VCDX Path
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Cos’è il VMUG Italia
• E’ l’emanazione italiana del VMUG
• Nasce nel 2010 dall’incontro di professionisti IT
• Si propone di essere la Community di riferimento per gli Utenti VMware in Italia e di alimentare lo scambio di esperienze e la crescita culturale
• Organizza eventi, conferenze, giornate tecnico/pratiche e partecipa alla Community Italiana su VMTN:
http://goo.gl/5nfYnX
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#vBrownBag
� The ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics
� #vBrownBag
• http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/
� #vBrownBagEMEA & #vBrownBagIT
• Registration- https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/678193680
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Livelli di certificazione
� Diversi skill e riconoscimenti
� VCA (Associated)
� VCP (Professional)
� VCAP (Advanced)
� VCDX (Expert)
VCDX
VCAP
VCP
VCA
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Certification Roadmap
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VCDX
� Disponibili: DCV, Cloud
• A breve anche DT/EUC
� Certificazione elettiva e selettiva
• Poco più di un centinaio in tutto il mondo!
• http://www.vmware.com/go/vcdxdirectory
� Come certificarsi?
• Ottenere le due certificazioni VCAP (Admin + Design)
• Far approvare una «application»
• Difenderla!• Difesa della application
• Progetto from scratch
• Scenario di Troubleshooting
� Perché?
� Come prepararsi
• VCDX Bootcamp
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VCDX-DCV
� http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=33270&ui=www_cert
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VCDX-Cloud
� http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=35071&ui=www_cert
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L’importanza di un buon vDesign
� Per VMware
• Un buon prodotto aiuta, ma serve anche un buon progetto
� Per il Partner
• Un buon progetto VMware porta ad una buona soluzione
� Per l’End-User
• Un buon progetto VMware porta ad una buona soluzione
� Per lo specialista
• Aumentare le proprie competenze
• Prepararsi per il VCAP-DCD e/o il VCDX
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vDesign come documentazione
� Da integrare con:
• Deployment plan
• Procedure per la definizione (se previsto) di un ambiente di deployment o di un ambiente predisposto alla corretta installazione e messa in produzione
• Installation guide
• Procedure di installazione per l’operatore (se previsto)
• Standard operating procedures
• Definizione delle (principali) procedure utilizzate dagli operatori
• Acceptance test plan
• Definizione di una serie di test per verificare il corretto funzionamento e la conformità del sistema
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vDesign Methodology
� Diverse medodologie
� Secondo il Design Workshop vi sono queste fasi:
• Architectural vision
• Architectural analysis
• Technology architecture
• Migration planning
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Architectural vision
� Deve considerare diversi aspetti
• Scope
• Goals
• Requirements
• Assumptions
• Contraints
• Risks
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Architectural analysis
� Analisi dello stato corrente
� Capacity Planning e analisi dei workload
� Definizione di un “target state”
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Technology architecture
� Definizione dei tre differenti design:
• Conceptual Design
• Logical Design
• Physical Design
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Migration planning
� Come portare il datacenter dallo stato attuale al target state
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Approccio secondo il VCDX4 Blueprint
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Aspetti da considerare
� Customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions
� vDesign qualities
• Availability
• Manageability (Usability)
• Performance
• Recoverability
• Security
• (Scalability)
• (Cost)
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Customer Requirements
� Availability
• Requirements to deliver highly available operation, as measured by percent uptime of relevant components
� Manageability
• Requirements for ease of managing the environment and maintaining normal operations. Sub-qualities may include scalability and flexibility
� Performance
• Required standards of responsiveness of components of the designed environment
� Recoverability
• Requirements for the ability to recover from an unexpected incident that affects the availability of an environment
� Security
• Requirements for overall data control, confidentiality, integrity, accessibility, governance, and risk management, often including the ability to demonstrate or achieve compliance with regulation
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Solution Architecture
� Availability
• Includes but not limited to considerations and analysis of single points of failure (SPOFs), redundancy options, accessibility
� Manageability
• Includes but not limited to considerations and analysis of monitoring, administration ease, maintenance, updates, scalability and capacity planning
� Performance
• Includes but not limited to considerations and analysis of demand patterns, potential bottlenecks, resource management, capacity planning, workload balancing
� Recoverability
• Includes but not limited to considerations and analysis of potential data and component loss, acceptable downtime, methods for restoring components and service
� Security
• Includes but not limited to considerations and analysis of permissions, user roles, component access, network security, monitoring
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Engineering Specifications
� Propose detailed specifications for the technology stack, showing the components’ mapping to the entities in the logical design
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Best Practices
� Linee guida
� Vanno sempre contestualizzate
� Meglio parlare di Recommended o Suggested Practices
• http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/10/best-practices/
� Esempi
• vCenter Server fisico o virtuale?
• vCenter Server appliance o installabile
• VCDB «embedded» o esterno
• ESXi con storage locale o SD?
• …
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Materiale specifico
� VMware vSphere Design
• Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe, Maish Saidel-Keesing
� VCDX Handbook
• http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=90040
� VCDX Design Defense Blueprint
• http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=93042
� VCDX Bootcamp
� VMware Solution Enablement Toolkits (SET)
• solo per Partner
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Next steps
� http://vmware.com/certification
� http://hol.vmware.com/
� vBrownbag IT – Ogni martedì sera
• http://vbrownbag.it
� VCAP e VCDX Bootcamp in Italia?
• http://vinfrastructure.it/2013/09/vcdx-bootcamp-2014-call-for-location/
� VMUG.IT User Conference di Aprile
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Enjoy The Session!
Grazie!