Seamless vSAN Design | Deploy Service
Why You Need the Seamless vSAN Design | Deploy Service
The Seamless Virtual SAN Design and Deployment Service helps companies provide software-defined storage to a VMware vSphere environment. This service provides rapid deployment where requirements for hardware, business goals and objectives are gathered. The Virtual SAN service will include VMware recommended best practices in a practical, real world design.
The Seamless Professional Services Team examines the vSAN options and includes the benefits, drawbacks and ramifications of various solutions that can support an organizations global production environment
The Seamless Team validates technical consistency, examines the use of best practices, describes vSAN options and also the benefits, implications and disadvantages of various design choices.
Seamless Professional Services Team will work with your team to:
- Conduct a solution overview workshop.
- Identify the requirements and discuss details of the use cases.
- Assess the current state and conduct GAP analysis for the target state.
- Conduct solution design review workshops.
- Deploy the solution and validate the deployment.
- Conduct solution knowledge transfer sessions to administrators and operators.
Seamless Consultants, working with your IT Team, verify whether the implemented design and environment are able to meet your business objectives and whether the solution can provide the foundation for using vSAN for future production workloads.
Knowledge transfer sessions enable your IT Team to participate in the definition of requirements. Throughout the engagement, your IT Support Team will benefit from the knowledge transfer and whiteboard discussions with the Seamless Professional Services Team.Your IT Support Team will learn VMware 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 road map for a recommended deployment.
About the Seamless Professional Services Team
The Seamless Team consists of Engineers that are VMware Certified, Architects that develop VMware design options in conjunction with VMware best practices and methodologies to ensure consistency and the highest level of infrastructure performance.
| vSAN Design | Deploy | SAS | Client |
| Environment Review | ||
| Hold meeting with Client to collect and document virtualization strategy, business requirements, technical requirements, business constraints and technical constraints of the deployment. | ✓ | |
| Gather and review current documentation of the virtual infrastructure (to include compute, storage, and network). | ✓ | |
| Gather and review current logical configuration standards. | ✓ | |
| Gather and review current operational standards. | ✓ | |
| vSAN Planning | ||
| Validate supported hardware from the HCL for Virtual SAN is available. | ✓ | |
| Review current vSphere architecture. | ✓ | |
| Review ESXI host configurations. | ✓ | |
| Review vCenter configuration. | ✓ | |
| Review storage configuration. | ✓ | |
| Define Virtual SAN disk groups and disk group configuration. | ✓ | |
| Define application policy and workload requirements. | ✓ | |
| Define Virtual SAN monitoring requirements. | ✓ | |
| Develop validation plan. | ✓ | |
| Develop architectural design and configuration document. | ✓ | |
| vSAN Deploy | ||
| Install Virtual SAN in the environment. | ✓ | |
| Configure Virtual SAN in the environment based on the architectural design and configuration document. | ✓ | |
| Test Virtual SAN configurations. | ✓ | |
| Work with client to execute validation cases. | ✓ | |
| Knowledge transfer. | ✓ | |
| Develop vSan physical and logical design documentation. | ✓ | |
| Assumptions | SAS | Client |
| Client to provide remote access to the Clients engineering team. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide access to the Clients engineering team to collect information on current configuration, and define any business requirements that will impact the project. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide copy of all documentation (physical, standards, configuration etc.) relating to data center infrastructure. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide the OTS engineering staff necessary access to any administration/management tools. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide access to the Client’s engineering team to answer questions on application topologies. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide access to the Client’s engineering team to collect any current logical and physical configurations. | ✓ | |
| This engagement does not include the tuning of the virtual infrastructure or underlying hardware resources (compute, storage, network). | ✓ | |
| This engagement does not include design outside of current implemented environment and use cases. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide remote engineering resource to provide the required information. | ✓ | |
| Client to provide documentation on the current View environment. | ✓ | |
| A deployment is defined as a single implementation of the design as defined in the Virtual SAN Solution section. | ✓ | |
| OTS will work with in conjunction with the Client’s engineering resources to gather the required information. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Client will provide hosts with at least one (1) solid state and one (1) hard disk. | ✓ | ✓ |
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