By Alex West, Technical Writer, End-User Computing, VMware
Deployment and Design Considerations for VMware Mirage is hot off the presses. Written with a single goal in mind—to help you get up and running with Mirage—this brand-new white paper boils down a complex deployment process into two crucial phases: “Surveying Your Environment and Accumulating Data” and “Architecture Planning.”
Read on for a sneak peek at the new paper.
Surveying Your Environment and Accumulating Data
Before you start planning your deployment, be sure to gather environmental data in these important categories:
- Endpoint properties
- Endpoint applications
- User data on endpoints
- Endpoint security measures
- Network topology
With a few easy calculations, you can use this data to predict the size of your Mirage environment, thus eliminating the possibility of over- or under-provisioning. You can also use this information to outline a thorough centralization (backup) schedule, which will minimize downtime and speed the overall deployment process. After all, centralization should be one of your main concerns, right?
Wondering how to get your hands on these crucial data sets? The full Deployment and Design Considerations for VMware Mirage white paper gives you the right tools for the job.
Architecture Planning
Now, this is where the job gets more difficult, and where your network data really comes in handy.
Walking you through the appropriate calculations and considerations, the “Architecture Planning” section outlines how to use your network data to plan your Mirage deployment according to your specific needs.
It includes sections on
- Mirage clusters
- Mirage servers
- Mirage storage
- Network
- Database
This section can also help you make sure that Mirage fits cleanly into your existing environment. For example, the “Ports and Protocols” subsection outlines, you guessed it, the ports and protocols used by Mirage.
Figure 1: Ports Required by Mirage
Want More?
Visit the full Deployment and Design Considerations for VMware Mirage white paper or the VMware Mirage Documentation page for more information on Mirage.
