It is now VCAP6-Design study time! Here is my blueprint laid out, and hopefully will be populated with some content.

Section 1 – Create a vSphere Conceptual Design

Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements

Skills and Abilities

Associate a stakeholder with the information that needs to be collected.Utilize inventory and assessment data from a current environment to define a baseline state.Analyze customer interview data to explicitly define customer #### Objectives for a conceptual design.Determine customer priorities for defined #### Objectives.Ensure that Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability and Security (AMPRS) considerations are applied during the requirements gathering process.Given results of the requirements gathering process, identify requirements for a conceptual design.Categorize requirements by infrastructure qualities to prepare for logical design requirements.

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