Seamless Design | Deploy Services
Why You Need the Seamless Design | Deploy Services
Our Network Virtualization Design and Deployment Service delivers a functioning solution using VMware NSX™ for vSphere® that expands the power of virtualization and automation to data center networking services. This service provides rapid deployment of virtual networking capabilities.
The engagement can assess, design and deploy the following NSX technologies:
- Multi-Tenant Configuration.
- Micro-segmentation.
- NSX Manager.
- Distributed Firewall.
- Distributed Logical Routers.
- Edge Gateways.
- Complex Load Balancing.
- Cross vCenter NSX Configuration and Policies.
- VPN.
- 3rd Party Integration.
The Seamless Design | Deploy Services will:
- Conduct information-gathering workshop to determine design requirements.
- Validate design requirements and constraints.
- Identify and discuss use cases.
- Conduct architecture design workshops.
- Design a network virtualization solution to meet selected use cases for non-production use.
- Implement the network virtualization design in the validated vSphere environment(s).
- Validate the solution according to the technical validation plan.
- Conduct a knowledge transfer session on the implemented solution.
The Seamless Network Virtualization Design and Deployment Service delivers a functioning solution using VMware NSX™ for vSphere® that expands the power of virtualization and automation to data center networking services. This service provides rapid deployment of virtual networking capabilities.
Throughout the engagement, your IT Support Team will benefit from the knowledge transfer and whiteboard discussions with the Seamless Team. Your IT Support Team will learn best practices, implementation insights, and the impact of the environment design on performance and manageability. At the conclusion of the engagement, you will have an actionable, prioritized roadmap for a recommended deployment.
About the Seamless Professional Services Team
The Seamless Team consists of engineers that are all VMware Certified, Architects that develop design options in conjunction with VMware best practices and methodologies to ensure consistency and the highest level of infrastructure performance.
| NSX Virtualization – Assessment, Design, and Deploy | SAS | Client | |
| Project Initiation | |||
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Hold initial meeting with client to set expectations and define the following: • Project scope and objectives. |
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| Assess | |||
| Review the hardware and software infrastructure in the deployment. | ✓ | ||
| Review use cases to be deployed. | ✓ | ||
| Review currently deployed configuration to validate against best practices and well as against desired use cases. | ✓ | ||
| Develop assessment documentation addressing any gaps discovered and outlining remediation plans. | ✓ | ||
| Review and capture the technical requirements impacting the solution. | ✓ | ||
| Review configuration information regarding network architecture, infrastructure services, server hardware specifications, and other relevant infrastructure components. | ✓ | ||
| Design | |||
| Work with client to identify additional cross-datacenter use cases that will need to be included in the deployment | ✓ | ||
| Work with client to develop an architecture to deploy, based on defined use cases | ✓ | ||
| Develop deployment plan for defined architecture. | ✓ | ||
| Deploy and Validate | |||
| Validate infrastructure for deployment, including infrastructure servers (such as PXE, DNS, and NTP), automation scripts, and download of all required software. | ✓ | ||
| Deploy NSX for vSphere components. | ✓ | ||
| Complete base configuration for NSX components. | ✓ | ||
| Validate base functionality of NSX components. | ✓ | ||
| Implement configuration to achieve technical objectives as specified during the Design phase. | ✓ | ||
| Execute test cases to validate the design. | ✓ | ||
| Validation review – Review environment and discuss testing results. | ✓ | ||
| Make modifications as determined through validation. | ✓ | ||
| Execute test cases to validate design modification. | ✓ | ||
| Develop and finalize Architectural Design Document. | ✓ | ||
| Knowledge Transfer and Closeout | |||
| Best practices for deployed infrastructure components. | ✓ | ||
| NSX login call networks and security. | ✓ | ||
| Backup, restore, and upgrade of the deployed solution. | ✓ | ||
| Engagement review. | ✓ | ||
| Assumptions | OTS | Client | |
| Client to provide access to the client engineering team to collect information on current configuration, and define any business requirements that will impact the project. | ✓ | ||
| Client to provide copies of all documentation (physical, standards, configuration etc.) relating to the network configuration. | ✓ | ||
| Client to provide Seamless engineering staff and required access levels to all relevant equipment in the environment. | ✓ | ||
| Client to provide access to the client engineering team to answer questions on application topologies. | ✓ | ||
| Client to provide access to the client engineering team to collect any current logical and physical configurations. | ✓ | ||
| Client is responsible for, and assumes any risk associated with any problems resulting from the content, completeness, accuracy and consistency of any data, materials and information supplied by the Client. | ✓ | ||
| Client will provide a suitable environment for knowledge transfer session(s) (overhead projector and conference facilities). | ✓ | ||
| Client will be solely responsible for procuring product support for all software to be used in connection with this SOW. Such product support will be in place and available no later than when Seamless consultants first arrive on site. | ✓ | ||
| Client is responsible for the design and implementation of all infrastructure necessary to support the deployment of VMware NSX including vSphere, physical infrastructure, migration of workloads to the new environments, requisite physical network architecture and implementation changes, virtual machine workloads for testing and production. | ✓ | ||
| Client to provide a central point of contact to work with Seamless project team as well as technical domain experts on an as-needed basis, and the central point of contact can speak on the behalf of applications and line of business owners. | ✓ | ||
| Out of Scope – Customization of the VMware vCloud Suite® products used for the NSX for vSphere solution beyond those implemented for the mutually agreed to use cases. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope – Integration with Client’s existing environment, except authentication system and network infrastructure. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope – Design and/or Integration with third-party systems and applications. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope – Installing and configuring third-party software. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope – Third-party software or any technical services that are not applicable to VMware components. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope -Additional use cases beyond the previously described use cases. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope – Remediation work associated with any problems resulting from the content, completeness, accuracy and consistency of any data, materials, or information supplied by Client. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope -Integration with any cloud management suite product (such as VMware vRealize™ Automation or VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™) not specifically defined in this SOW. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope -Application coding and/or API scripting. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope -Analyzing Client workloads for use with the NSX for vSphere environment. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Out of Scope -Configuring, tuning, or troubleshooting of Client’s server, storage, or network environment. | ✓ | ✓ | |
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