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Virtualization Product used VMWARE/CITRIX/MICROSOFT, Number of HOSTs and configuration detials with build
numbers
What is the ESX license under use in your organization? Do you use a centralized license server or host based
licensing?
Allocatoin of LUN's and Datastores to the physical hosts and virtual machines
Provide the version number and details of VMware vCentre
Is HA , Dynamic Resource Scheduling, DPM and FT are implemented in the present environment?
What are the applications hosted on your VMware platform? What are the types of OS platforms used?
Provide a detailed diagram of your ESX setup with detailed network map (including internal virtual connections)
Provide details of any other VMware products (VMware Lab manager, ACE, Site recovery manager,Appliances
etc) that you use along with setup.Type of backups used to the vms
Any Projects related to virtualization ongoing now or planned for near future
Any issues/Problems with the current setup? If yes provide details
Are there any unique processes that can impact our design? (Policy and procedural)
What types of SLAs do you have in place?
For each server what is the RTO? RPO? ( (Recovery Time Objective, Recovery Point Objective)
Do you plan to reuse existing hardware for virtualization? Or will we be purchasing new hardware?
What is your preferred vendor for servers? Switches? Storage?
How many CPUs, how many cores and what is the CPU speed for each host?
How much RAM will be configured in each host?
How much local disk space will be configured?
How many NIC cards and ports will be used for each host? Management?
vMotion?
Data?
SAN?
Fault Tolerance?
DMZ?
Virtual infrastucture
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Will you be using Fiber Channel or iSCSI or NAS Storage?
What are your current storage requirements?
Is there any additional storage requirements?
How much do you foresee your data growing over the next year? 2 years?
Are there any applications that are disk latency critical? High IOps? High MBps?
Do you plan to use SAN based snapshotting in conjunction with VM level snapshots?
Do you plan on using thin provisioning?
On the SAN do you have a standard LUN size? If so what are the standard sizes of LUNs?
Do you have a naming convention you would like to use for VMFS volumes?
Do you want to deploy ESXi or ESX?
Do you plan to use any local VMFS volumes?
Is there a requirement or a need to run any monitoring or management software in the ESX service console?What type of core network is in place now? (eg. Gig switches, 10 gig, 100 Meg?)
Will we be purchasing new switches or using existing? Do you have enough ports available if using existing?
Do you use VLANs? If so, what are the VLANs and how are they used?
Do you have a need to group virtual servers into groups (subnets/VLANs, etc)?
Do you have a server naming convention that needs to be followed?
What subnet do you use for management?
Do you have a physical machine acting as a PDC or BDC? If not can a machine be reclaimed for this purpose?
Do you plan to run Virtual Center Server as a VM or a physical machine?
What database do you plan to use for vCenter? SQL, SQL Express, Oracle?
Will the vCenter database reside on the same server, or on a remote server?
What type of backup technology do you currently use?
Do you want to perform file-level, VM-level, or SAN LUN-level backups?
Are you using storage replication? If yes, what type?
Do you have a policy that requires off-site backups? Tape retention?
Any other information we need to know about your backup policy as it is now?
What is your expected average annual user growth rate?
Will you size your servers for your initial needs or account for all of your expected growth?
How many users will access your applications?
Are you planning on virtualizing any workloads that are mission-critical and cannot afford any downtime?Are you planning on virtualizing any multi-tiered applications?
What operating systems are currently running your existing applications that you wish to consolidate?
Are any of your current physical servers/application workloads clustered using Microsoft or Veritas clustering
What type of security concerns do you have?
Is there a disaster recovery plan in place? Has it been tested?
Do you have a list of priority VMs based on groupings? (High, medium, low)
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What other sites do you utilize for DR?
What is the connectivity between sites?
Is there a need to replicate ESX/ESXi hosts at the DR site?
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Response
Vmware, 70+ Hosts , vSphere 5 with HA and DRS
Enabled Cluster,FT Allocation as Necessary, all
Hosts on ESXi 5 with Build 469512
centralized license was in 3.5/host based and
centralized license in 4/VRAM license in 5
Yes
3.5,4.0,4.1 and 5.0
Yes But DPM not Implemented
Banking domain Application,2003,2008R2,2008
I Involved in implementing SRMTSM Backup and Veeam Backup
Yes
No
N/A
Severity 1 -- 15 minutes response time and 2
Hour resolution time
Severity 2 -- 30 minutes response time and 4
Hour resolution time
Severity 3 -- 2 Hours response time and 3 Days
resolution time
Severity 4 -- 1 Day response time and 5 Days
resolution time
Recommand is purchasing new hardware but For
SRM we are re-utlizing the Old Hardware
Server- HP,Switch- Cisco,Storage San-EMC,Nas-
Netapp
8 CPUs,2.533 GHz
68 GB
40 GB
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EMC VNX1000V and Existing is suffcient for the
Next 3 Years Data Growth
Diffently Yes
Dends on the application which your are using
No
Since Thin is implemented in SAN , we are not
using Thin on Thin as per the recommendations
from Dell
Yes
No Standard size
Yes
ESX and ESXi both
No
No10 Gig
Yes
Yes
You can install vCenter Server in a Microsoft
Windows virtual machine that runs on an ESX
host.
SQL
Remote Server
TSM Net backup or Veeam Backup
VM Level
Asychronous
NO(Backup team will works)
Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes