The vSphere physical design process (shown in the following diagram) includes choosing and configuring the physical hardware required to support the storage, network, and compute requirements:
During the physical design process, the hardware and configuration choices should map to the logical design and satisfy the functional and nonfunctional design requirements.
A design architect should answer the following questions about each design decision:
Does the design meet the requirements of the logical design?
Does the design satisfy the functional and nonfunctional requirements?
Is the selected hardware supported?
There will often be more than one physical solution that will meet the design requirements. The job of the architect is to choose the hardware to provide the resources required while meeting the design requirements and constraints.
This chapter contains recipes to check whether or not our hardware is supported by checking VMware's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), the physical...
