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Design Evolution of VMware vSphere

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

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Design Evolution of VMware vSphere

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  1. Design Evolutionof VMwarevSphere From Concept to Product Ken Guzik, vSphere Design Lead

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. Initial Concepts VMware VirtualCenter Concept Model Single Pane of Glass Well Known UI Models As Familiar and Comfortable UI as Possible (Windows Explorer)

  5. Initial Concepts Alternate VirtualCenter Concept Model Separate Navigation From Views Multiple Windows for Increased Visibility Well Known UI Models Less Familiar to Windows Users Rejected

  6. 1.0 Design Very limited functionality VM management and Host/VM monitoring only Simple wizard based VM deploy Drag and drop VM Migration Not much else

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Focus on Tasks Go.vmware.com Cloud based management of local datacenter Primarily task and wizard based UI Integrated with community for automated recommendations Designed for the small businessuse cases

  12. 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 StudiesCase 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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