ARCHITECT
Architect (Design)
27 Virtual’s architects design custom modern software defined data center and modern application development platform solutions. The design service includes an in-depth discovery and validation of the current environment. During discovery, we will uncover any upcoming short and long-term data center plans. This discovery process allows our architects to create a comprehensive architectural design. Complex deployment can be simplified with in-depth upfront discovery, planning, and information sharing. We will create both a short-term and long-term road map to allow you to plan integration of your current and future technology leveraging a phased methodology.
vSphere Infrastructure Design | HCI / VCF Design
vSphere has matured but still today is at the core of any VMware Software Defined Data Center Design. 27 Virtual’s team of experienced Architects and Engineers will assess your business needs and current environment to develop a custom core vSphere infrastructure.
Our team will assess:
- Compute, Network and Storage | HCI or Traditional
- Single Rack | Multi-Rack
- Single Data Center | Multi-Data Center
- Current / Planned Resource Usage and Scale Considerations
- Cloud Posture and Hybrid Cloud Consideration
- Network and Security Consideration
Our team will create vSphere Design including but not limited to:
- vCenter Design placement and SSO considerations (vSphere HA)
- HCI and VCF Criteria and Design Guidance
- Data Center Design and Cluster Design with Storage Considerations
- Advanced Design considerations based on type of physical servers, physical network cards
- Single site, multi-site and stretched cluster considerations
- Single site, multi-site with stretched cluster, multi-site design considerations
- Resource Planning and Resource Pool Design for optimal workload performance
- Management, vMotion and core infrastructure network design
NSX Network Design
NSX has become the industry standard for software defined networking. 27 Virtual has been designing and deploying NSX since its inception at VMware. Allow our teams to first assess your current network infrastructure.
Our team will assess:
- Your current underlying network infrastructure
- Single-site vs. multi-site
- Current physical router/switch vendor and capabilities
- Current switch configurations HSRP, VRRP, MLAG, Active/Standby
- Current routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP, eBGP, iBGP
- Future planned changes to current router/switch infrastructure
- Data Center inter-connects, bandwidth and latency
Our team will create:
- Conceptual design single-site vs. multi-site
- Logical design single-site | multi-site
- Physical Design (IP addresses, physical switch/router)
- Integration for consistent networking between on-prem and cloud services
NSX Security Design
NSX has become the industry standard for software defined networking and security. 27 Virtual has been designing and deploying NSX since its inception at VMware. Allow our teams to first assess your current security posture infrastructure.
Our team will assess:
- Your current hardware-based security devices
- Your current virtual security appliances
- Current physical firewall placement, posture, and use
- Any third-party software-based security agents
- Protection of both physical and virtual workloads
- Any hardening or lack hardening steps that are in place
- Traffic flows with vRealize Network Insight
- Future planned changes to current security design
Our team will create:
- Conceptual security design single-site vs. multi-site
- Logical security design single-site vs. multi-site
- Physical security design (IP addresses, physical switch/router
- Firewall design based on security group tags
- Agent based protection for bare metal Windows and Linux
- Integration for consistent security between on-prem and cloud
vRealize Automation & Orchestration Workflow Design
27 Virtual has an experienced team of automation engineers working various complex automation projects. We design an automation platform that is fully validated and tested for consistency, reliability, and upgradability. Next, we work with your team to uncover key business drivers where automation will play a key role in accelerating the business.
Our team will assess:
- Your current business operations, processes, and tools
- Identify current key roadblocks to better utilization of IT as a service (ITaaS)
- Discover end user wants and needs to increase productivity
- Determine key processes that can be converted to Anything as a Service (XaaS)
- Discover current CRM SR or Ticketing requests processes
- Identify daily tasks that are currently being completed manually
Our team will design:
- Custom single-multi machine blueprints
- Custom scripts
- Custom workflows
- Leverage NSX Network and Security integration
- Create custom business groups and tenants
- Operationalize the environment
Contact 27 Virtual for a FREE Initial Design Session(s):
- vSphere Infrastructure Design
- NSX Network Design
- NSX Intrinsic Security Design
- vRealize Automation & Orchestration Workflow Design
Custom IT Plan for Your Situation
