This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. Objectives A key objective in the Business Architecture phase is to develop a Target Business Architecture that shows how the enterprise can achieve the Architecture Vision and address the Request for Architecture Work. Its second objective is to identify first candidate architecture roadmap components to …
In my last post I covered vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) components and its architecture. Now I will focus more on real world scenario and present deployment options for two datacenters – multi availability zones deployment. Requirements: Design must cover two datacenters. Solution must be highly available and perform data gathering and analytics even when one component …
vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) is well known monitoring tool that provides recommendations, alerts, reports, and dashboards to display how the environment is performing. In this post I will not go into features, nor operational part of this solution, but rather focus on its components and architecture. It is designed to be highly scalable, built upon Gemfire cluster …
In this article I will go through design options for vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) for two-site deployment. I made some assumptions to narrow number of options for given requirements. Assumptions: Greenfield deployment, I will not take into consideration any migration scenarios No vSphere Storage Metro Cluster/Stretched Cluster VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus licence …
This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. Objectives Phase A – Architecture Vision – is the first phase in iteration cycle, after establishing Architecture Capability in Preliminary phase. It provides a Statement of the Architecture Work that will be delivered in an iteration of the ADM cycle. It also provides the Vision …
This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. Objectives The main objective of the Preliminary Phase is to determine and establish the Architecture Capability. This includes gathering business drivers and deciding what organizational context, structures, tools or architecture frameworks will be needed to support architecture work. Approach Where, what, why, who, and how …
This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. What is ADM? The Architecture Development Method (ADM) provides a tested and repeatable process for developing architectures. The ADM includes establishing an architecture framework, developing architecture content, transitioning, and governing the realization of architectures. All of these activities are carried out within an iterative cycle …
This is another post about TOGAF. Check other posts in the series. To understand TOGAF components we need to speak this same language and have this same vocabulary. Before we go to TOGAF Architecture Development Method take a look on a bit boring topic which is TOGAF terminology: Architecture Domain The architectural area being considered. There …
This is the first post in the series related to TOGAF. TOGAF stands for The Open Group Architecture Framework. Recently I went through the journey to get TOGAF 9 Certified badge and I will share here basic concepts that I learned on the way. In my daily work I’m Infrastructure Architect so I design mainly Information Systems and Technology Architectures. …