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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!