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Design Evolution of VMware vSphere. From Concept to Product Ken Guzik, vSphere Design Lead. Evolution of Design. Creation of VMware vSphere VMware started with a vision to create a hands-off data center using virtualization Users were conservative and risk averse IT administrators - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Design Evolution of VMware vSphere
From Concept to Product Ken Guzik, vSphere Design Lead
+Evolution of Design
Creation of VMware vSphere
VMware started with a vision to create a hands-off data center using virtualization
Users were conservative and risk averse IT administrators
To our users, virtualization was complex, mysterious and scary
Simply providing great technology wouldn’t cut it The product had to “feel” simple and non-
threatening
+Evolution of Design
How could VMware bring virtualization to the enterprise?
Focus on the user experience as a primary goal Make the user experience simple, familiar and
approachable Remove the “mystique” of virtualization
Make the most complex operations ridiculously simple Instill a culture of great UE across the company Hire a dedicated UX design lead (Ken)
+Initial Concepts
Single Pane of Glass
As Familiar and Comfortable UI as Possible
(Windows Explorer)
Well KnownUI Models
VMware VirtualCenter Concept Model
+Initial Concepts
Alternate VirtualCenter Concept Model
Separate Navigation From Views
Less Familiar to Windows Users
Well KnownUI Models
Multiple Windows for Increased Visibility
Rejected
+1.0 Design
Very limited functionality
VM management and Host/VM monitoring only
Simple wizard based VM deploy
Drag and drop VMMigration
Not much else
+2.0 Design
Full datacenter automation
High availability
Host load balancing (DRS)
Fault tolerance
Scale out to 1000s of VMs
Full host, VM, network and storage configuration
+3.0 Design
Continuing to build out functionality
Policy based automation
High level intelligent monitoring
Scale out to 100Ks of VMs
Integration with other mgmt UIs
+What happened to the small user?
As the product scaled out, care was taken to ensure things worked on a small scale
But…
Complexity creeps in, and the usability for the small datacenter suffers
Time to rethink the small users’ needs
Better understanding of use cases lets us consider a different product that addresses their needs
+Downsize & Simplify
Conceptual single host UI model
Supports only the most valuable use cases
Fully automated with minimal user interaction
Focus on small business needs
+Focus on Tasks
Cloud based management of local datacenter
Primarily task and wizard based UI
Integrated with community for automated recommendations
Designed for the small business use cases
Go.vmware.com
+More on VMware vSphere
Ken Guzik’s portfolio page http://kenguzik.net/portfolio/vmware/vsphere
Case study of the evolution from vSphere 1.0 to 2.0 User-Centered Design Stories, Real-World UCD Case Studies
Case 12 – User Centered Design for Middleware Publisher: http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn
=9780123706089 Chapter: http://tinyurl.com/bghzy7l
VMware vSphere product page http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html
Video tour of vSphere 4.0 http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/video/A-tour-of-VMware-vSphere-4
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