Every VCDX submission requires an Implementation Plan. This post covers the standard activities that should be included and how to align your Project Schedule with the VCDX programme.
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VCDX – Proportion and Balance
As an Enterprise Architect, you want to produce architecture designs that are elegant and simple whilst meeting your customer’s requirements. It is very important that each design has proportion and balance.
Consider an artist creating a painting, the artist does not churn out a perfect canvas in one sitting, but starts with a broad sketch to define the outline of the painting before filling in the details.
The same process applies here. Get the “bare bones” on paper and then start fleshing it out. If the big picture does not make sense, fix it before you move on, otherwise it will mean more work to correct later on.
RapidMatter – Enterprise-Architecture-Design-as-a-Service
I am kick-starting a GitHub project called RapidMatter. The live version of this GNU General Public Licence prototype will run at RapidMatter.com, which I will fund personally through the earnings of my blog VCDX133.COM. I have been thinking about this since 2013 when I first started my VCDX journey and it is time to put it out there and make it a reality.
Mission Statement: To provide a vendor-agnostic Enterprise-Architecture-Design-as-a-Service for Infrastructure.
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NSX-v – Design Deep Dive
This is the VMware NSX for vSphere Design Deep Dive. I have aggregated all of the design considerations I could find that need to be assessed in a VMware NSX-v architecture design. Brevity and bullet-points are used to keep the information concise and readable. If you want more information on a concept use the Additional Resources section at the end.
This post will be updated with additional information as part of the NSX Link-O-Rama. If you have content to contribute, post a comment below.
VCDX – Great Logical Design
As Enterprise Architects we instinctively understand the purpose of the Conceptual Model (Requirements, Constraints and Assumptions) and the Physical Design (Vendor XYZ, Product A with setting B). Unfortunately, the Logical Design is something most architects struggle with, because it is abstract and theoretical. This is very common with Enterprise Architects who have been working with one vendor for a long time, because they are so used to building designs where Vendor XYZ has been preselected, that they overlook the need to provide a future possibility for other vendors.
Note: The VCDX program accepts the referencing of VMware technology in the Logical Design section, as long as the Physical Design section covers the VMware technology software version selection and justification.
VCDX – Bad Design
As a VCDX mentor and customer I review a lot of infrastructure architecture designs. Bad design can be hard to quantify, but this is the consolidated list of frequent comments I have from reading said documents:
List of articles in my VCDX Deep-Dive series (more than 70 posts)
VCDX – Skills Matrix
You have submitted your design to the VCDX Program and begun preparing for the defence which will be held in 60 days. You are wondering, “Where do I start?” A great first step is to complete a VCDX skills matrix and then formulate your plan of attack for the day of the defence.
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