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Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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Identifying design risks


Risks include anything that may prevent the design from satisfying the requirements.

Design risks include the following:

  • Technical risks

  • Operational risks

  • Financial risks

Risks are often introduced through constraints or assumptions that have not been proven. Risks resulting from assumptions are mitigated by validating them.

How to do it...

Throughout the design process, design decisions should mitigate or minimize risks by following this process:

  1. Identify any risks associated with the design requirements or assumptions.

  2. Validate assumptions to reduce the risks associated with them.

  3. Determine how design decisions will help mitigate or minimize risks.

How it works...

There are a few risks in the design based on the discovery information, assumption, and constraints.

As part of the discovery process, the following risk was noted:

  • Currently, there is no shared storage. The current system and infrastructure administrators are unfamiliar with the shared storage concepts and protocols...

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Published in: Jun 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785283468

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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