Chapter 3. The Design Factors

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Identifying design requirements
  • Identifying design constraints
  • Making design assumptions
  • Identifying design risks
  • Creating the conceptual design

Introduction

During the discovery process, information is collected on the business and technical goals of the virtualization project. This information must be analyzed in order to determine the design factors.

The design factors that must be determined are as follows:

  • Requirements
  • Constraints
  • Assumptions
  • Risks

Determining the requirements, making and proving assumptions, determining constraints, and identifying risks form the conceptual design and provide the foundation to build on for the logical design. Business and technical design ...

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