Pertanyaan Teknis yang diajukan saat vSphere Design during Requirement Analysis

Saya coba merangkum sekilas saja mengenai beberapa pertanyaan teknis dasar yang biasa diajukan saat kita melakukan Requirement Analysis / Design Workshop engagement dengan customer.
Berikut ini adalah beberapa high level questions yang biasa saya ajukan, dan melakukan penggalian lebih dalam berdasarkan pertanyaan tersebut. (Note: ini adalah pertanyaan2 teknis, jadi bukan diajukan ke business person or C level. So, to find the correct audience is important)

• Compute: To gather information regarding the planned target Compute infrastructure
• Storage: To understand the current and expected storage landscape
• vCenter: To describe the state of vCenter to manage the ESXi environment
• Network: To gather information around current and target network infrastructure
• Backup & Patching: To understand the current backup and patching methodology.
• Monitor: To analyze current and expected the Monitoring processes
• VM Workloads: To analyzie the details of the current physical workloads to be virtualized and consolidated
• Security: To understand detail the current security practices.
• Processes & Operations: To understand the current operation procedures and processes
• Availlaibility & Disaster Recovery: to gather information on Business Continuity Processes

Breakdown lebih detail dari pertanyaan tersebut diatas, bisa saja dilakukan lebih detail, contohnya sebagai berikut:

• Compute: tipe hardware, network, disk, merk, redundancy, processor, koneksi storage, booting, automation, scalability, dll
• Storage: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/NFS/VSAN, IOps, Latency, storage technology, cloning/snapshot, replication, dll
• vCenter: linked mode, appliance, database decision, disk size, cpu memory size, pre-requirements, dll
• Network: leaf spine, backbone technology, bandwith, VLAN, VXLAN, teaming, VPC, link aggregation, distributed switch, vendors, dll
• Backup and Patching: storage backup, 3rd party backup, VDP, VADP, Update Manager, dll
• Monitor: items to monitor, centralized log server, performance, capacity, usage, tresshold, alert, placement, dll
• VM Workloads: user growth, IOps, Tier1/Tier2/Tier3, mission critical, OS clustering, Java/Oracle/SQL Server/SAP, dll
• Security: firewall ports, virus protection, distributed firewall, hardening system, lockdown mode, access, dll
• Processes and Operations: SLA agreements, private/public/hybrid strategy, budget/scope constraint, unique processes, dll
• Availability & DR: RPO, RTO, VMware HA, Fault Tolerance, Active-Active DC. Bandwith and Hops, priority protected VMs, dll

Semoga bermanfaat.
Kind Regards,
Doddi Priyambodo