Build Performance Requirements into the Logical Design

vROPS 7.0 launched with a feature called Business Intent which controls workload placement based on vSphere tags Announcement. This feature tackles several use cases one being controlling the host placement of workloads which have physical licencing requirements. Business Intent settings are configured at the data centre (or custom datacenter) level within vROPS 7.0 and can be configured at the per cluster or per host level. For the scope of this post, I am going to cover a customer use case to combine clusters, increaseing availability for some workloads while maintaining licencing compliance for others.

Build Manageability Requirements into the Logical Design

Compare vRA appliance configuration against the hardending guide

RabbitMQ causes join cluster process to hang when adding new vRA nodes.

Build Availability Requirements into the Logical Design

Map Service Dependencies

Determine Use Cases for Multi-Tenancy

Map Business Requirements to the Logical Design

Differentiate requirements, risks, constraints and assumptions

Gather and analyze use cases

As part of the VCAP7-CMA Design study guide, I have put together a use case which will be used to provide context when addressing each of the exam objectives. The study guide can be found Here Use Case Mega-Awesome Transit have identified a need to increase the reliability and reduce the complexity when updating their dispatching system during update periods. Currently updates to the dispatch system cause interruptions for up to 12 hours.

Gather and analyze business requirements