
VMware Design involves many phases starting from requirement definition to handover to operations. The Requirement definition clearly states about the project requirements, design considerations, existing infrastructure details, stakeholders expectation etc.
Model – Design specification

- Requirement Definition
- Use Case list
- Resource Estimation
- Operation Schedule
- Network diagram
- Hardware architecture
- Software involved to implement
- Server (hardware) list
- Storage
- DR
- Antivirus
- VDI configuration
- View Desktop workflow
- user profile
- View Desktop technology
- Applications [ IE, outlook, intranet apps…]
- High level Design Architecture
- Purpose and Overview [ Exec summary, Scope, operation]
- Project Scope
- Project Goals
- Design constrains
- Design Assumptions
- Success Criteriea
- Logical Design
- High level conceptual design
- End user experience design
- User Connectivity categories
- Application requests
- Use Case
- View pool design
- Technical Design
- Virtual Desktop pools
- View pool attributes
- View desktop design
- Horizon View logical design
- Horizon View Block design
- Logical Storage design
- Logical network design
- Load Balancer architecture
- Technical Design
- Horizon View pod configuratoin
- vCenter configuration
- Global configuration setttings
- Composer Server specifications
- Horizon View Events
- Golden VM specification – Optimization
- Maintenance pool specification and attributes
- Desktop maintenance
- Replica placing datastore
- End user experience configuration
- Active Directory integration – GPO
- Virtual printing
- user accounts
- profile management
- Client Device
- DNS, DHCP, Failover, BIG IP external dependencies
- Purpose and Overview [ Exec summary, Scope, operation]
- Low Level Design – Basic Design Documents
- Project Objective
- Sizing considerations
- Load Balance design
- Network design
- Security design
- High Availability design
- Operations impact and management design
- ESXi – component design
- vCenter component design
- Storage Design
- Network design
- Horizon Infrastructure design
- Sizing considerations
- Terminal – End user access
- Golden Image
- View pool design
- BIG IP design
- View Components failure management
- Detail Design
- Parameters of each Basic design documents
- Implementation Document
- The Step by Step procedure document with prerequisites
- Test case documents
- Each components various test cases and result collections
- Integration Test
- Test in UAT environment
- Component level test
- Fail-over tests..
- Quality test as per RD document expectation
- Implement production
- Handover to operation