VSphere 5.5 Design Review Checklist

In my new assignment, I am doing Design Review of a vSphere 5.5 Environment.
Is there a brief Checklist that mentions All the Best Practices; To get me started.
Thank You !

Hi,
Usually companies like IBM, VMware, HP, etc. have their own Reference Architectures.
A lot of Reference Architectures are posted publically by VMware. Try to search, if you can find the one which suits your needs.
If you work in one of the BIG companies, try to check your internal documentations.
Good Luck

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BI Technical Design Review Criteria/Best Practice Assessments

Dear Experts,
I am currently involved in conducting a pre-build BITechnical Design Review i.e. Data Model structure/Extractor/Transformation Logic/Data Flow Diagrams.
Are there any tangible criteria/review template/methods out there to ensure all components are included in a BI design and that they conform to the SAP Best Practices?
Thanks,
Jony

Hi jonathan,
The BW Project guidelines can be as follows ,
Stages in BW project
1 Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering
2 Business Blueprint
3 Realization
4 Final Preparation
5 GO Live & Support
Project Preparation / Requirement Gathering
Collect requirement thru interviews with Business teams /Core users / Information Leaders .
Study & analyze KPI 's (key figures) of Business process .
Identify the measurement criteria's (Characteristics).
Understand the Drill down requirements if any.
Understand the Business process data flow if any .
Identify the needs for data staging layers in BW (i.e need for ODS if any)
Understand the system landscape .
Prepare Final Requirements Documents in the form of Functional Specifications containing :
Report Owners,
Data flow ,
KPIs ,
measurement criterias,
Report format along with drilldown requirements .
2 Business Blueprint
Check Business content against the requirements
Check for appropriate
Info Objects - Key figures & Characters
Check for Info cubes / ODS
Check for data sources & identify fields in source system
Identify Master data
document all the information in a file follow standard templates
Prepare final solution
Identify differences (Gaps) between Business Content & Functional
specification. propose new solutions/Developments & changes if required at different levels such as Info Objects ,Info cube , Data source etc . Document the gaps & respective solutions proposed follow standard templates
Design & Documentation
Design the ERD & MDM diagrams for each cube & related objects
Design the primary keys/data fields for intermediate Storage in ODS
Design the Data flow charts right from data source up to Cube .
Consider the performance parameters while designing data models
Prepare High level / Low level design documents for each data model.--- follow standard templates
Identify the Roles & Authorizations required and Document it follow standard templates
final review of design with core BW users .
Sign off the BBP documents
3 Realization
Check & Apply Latest Patches/Packages ...in BW & R/3 systems.
Activate/Build & enhance the cubes/ODS as per data model designs...maintain the version documents .
Identify & activate Info objects / Master data info sources / attributes ,prepare update rules
Assign data sources .prepare transfer rules , prepare multi providers . prepare Info packages .
perform the unit testing for data loads.both for master data & transaction data .
develop & test the end user queries .
Design the process chains ,schedule & test
create authorizations / Roles assign to users ..and test
Apply necessary patches & Notes if any .
freeze & release the final objects to quality systems
perform quality tests .
Re design if required . (document changes, maintain versions)
4 Final Preparation
Prepare the final check list of objects to be released .identify the dependencies & sequence of release
perform Go Live checks as recommended by SAP in production system
keep up to date Patch Levels in Production system
Test for production scenarios in a pre-production system which is a replica of production system .
Do not Encourage the changes at this stage .
freeze the objects .
5 GO Live & Support
keep up to date Patch Levels
Release the objects to production system
Run the set ups in R/3 source system & Initialize Loads in BW
Schedule Batch jobs in R/3 system (Delta loads)
schedule the process chains in BW .
Performance tuning on going activity
Enhancements - if any
You can get some detailed information in the following link.
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581
Try to go to ASAP implementation roadmap.
https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000420636&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202
Check the links below that gives you brief overview of the above steps .
https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap
http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/
ASAP
https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/asap
http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/ASAP/
https://service.sap.com/roadmaps
https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/bi
***Please reward if useful.**
Blue Print:
http://www.sap.com/services/servsuptech/bestpractices/index.epx --- look for blueprint
http://iris.tennessee.edu/Blueprint/BW/BW-Blue%20Print-Final.doc
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/html/Business_Blueprint.htm
You can get some detailed information in the following link.
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3581
also please chck out
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2e8e5288-0b01-0010-2ea8-bcd4df5084a7
a hwo to on BI7.0 upgrade .. also as suggested check out the BW upgrade roadmap on the support portal..
Hope it helps..
CSM Reddy
Assign points if helpful
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Review checklist - XI development

Hi,
Can you provide a set of useful points/checklist that we can use for reviewing XI work.
For e.g. i need to do a peer review of the scenarios developed by my team mates. it must cover sld, id, ir, alerts, mappings, proxies, bpm, adapters etc.
For a XI work based on PI 7.1, what could be additional review areas.
Thanks in advance.
Ganesh (g22sep).

Thats a nice idea .
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/86bdc490-0201-0010-b9a2-b98373ea4dc4
There are many checklist available on XI and it can also be desinged as per the project requirement. However please some of the checklist which may be helpful for you in regards to XI:
Checklist - Making Correct Use of an Integration Process:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/98d06d5a-0401-0010-c7a5-ca3dad5a3cfc
Checklist: Making Correct Use of Mappings:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d5/be364296f1b26be10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Checklist: Making Correct Use of Correlations:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6d/94364296f1b26be10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Checklist: Making Correct Use of Dynamic Processing:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ce/bb2c421f3fda2ce10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

IPS design review

Hello ,
Could you review my IPS design (the topology picture is in the attachment) ? Can I have one IPS with three or four ports attached to the same switch in an etherchannel? I am talking about one IPS with multiple interfaces. For example two IPS with four interfaces in the switch's etherchannel group with eigth ports. ( IPS's interfaces are in VLAN pair mode )
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Sorry, i have forgotten to attach the topology picture.

Technical Design Review Question: mySAP Execution Architecture.

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the Requirements discussion, I came across something
Job naming conventions apply and completion of Autosys Job Schedule request form is required.Forward this form to the mySAP Execution Architecture team for processing
Is this a an internal team or it refers to some group at SAP company?
Is the Autosys Job Schedule request form a standard for or you think the environment had just come up a form for their internal processes? What may this include?
Thanks.

Hi,
If I understood correctly, The organization wants to maintain a document on jobs to be maintained regularly in production system. It will be used as a reference in the support of BW production activities.
I hope, the mySAP Execution Architecture team for processing is the internal team from your client.
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Anil Kumar Sharma .P
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Multiple WAN site redundancy design review (dark fiber, p2p, DMVPN)

I'm re-designing a couple of wan sites. I'm using EIGRP over both some leased dark fiber and p2p provider connections. The attached (pdf) physical topology says it all, I'm thinking of using ip sla to track and inject routes over prefered connections, but really just looking for feed back if someone is interested in taking a look.
I've bought 2 2951's with es3g-16-p modules so I can build svi's and do hsrp between the paths, building redundancy between the 3 available paths back to our enterprise core (1Gbps, 40Mbps, 50Mbps).
multiple vlans at both sites...
e.g.: (wan site1 (vlan 10-15), want site2 (vlan 16-20))
Thoughts and thanks?

hi there
not sure why you need to use DMVPN if it all internal same internal network unless you need to have all the traffic between sites to be encrypted
anyway in general i would say of use the direct link to reach the directly connected networks per site
example using site one 100M link to reach DC and WAN
and use site2 50M local link to reach WAN as primary path and use the site1-site2 fibre to reach DC as primary path for site2 this could archive a good load sharing and reduce the load on the link between site1 and site2
IP SLA in a topology like your for sure can very helpful to improve failover time and make the routing more topology aware
hope this helps

DMZ layer design review

Hello,
I would appreciate if some can share their experience/problems with below design between Core-Firewall-DMZ-Aggregation setup.
1. There is a Layer-3 connectivity between core and firewall segments with L3 point-to-point links running OSPF. The active firewall(FW-A) forms ospf neighborship with Core-A and similarly FW-B forms ospf neighborship with Core-B and Core-A / Core-B form ospf neighborship.
2. Aggregation switch and Firewall are connected over L2 trunks and OSPF is running over SVIs (VLAN 13 / bcast segment), Aggregation switch-A is elected as DR and Aggregation switch-B is BDR, both firewalls have configured ospf priority to zero. FW-A(active) forms ospf adjacency with Aggregation-A and Aggregation-B, and each Aggregation switch forms ospf neighborship with the active firewall only.
Is there any chance that the broadcast network b/w Aggregation switch and Firewall can cause any problem when any of the aggregation switch reloads.
I have attached a rough sketch for better understanding.
Regards,
Akhtar

Hello,
I would appreciate if some can share their experience/problems with below design between Core-Firewall-DMZ-Aggregation setup.
1. There is a Layer-3 connectivity between core and firewall segments with L3 point-to-point links running OSPF. The active firewall(FW-A) forms ospf neighborship with Core-A and similarly FW-B forms ospf neighborship with Core-B and Core-A / Core-B form ospf neighborship.
2. Aggregation switch and Firewall are connected over L2 trunks and OSPF is running over SVIs (VLAN 13 / bcast segment), Aggregation switch-A is elected as DR and Aggregation switch-B is BDR, both firewalls have configured ospf priority to zero. FW-A(active) forms ospf adjacency with Aggregation-A and Aggregation-B, and each Aggregation switch forms ospf neighborship with the active firewall only.
Is there any chance that the broadcast network b/w Aggregation switch and Firewall can cause any problem when any of the aggregation switch reloads.
I have attached a rough sketch for better understanding.
Regards,
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Flash Design Review

Hi
I have designed hanging flash menu for my web design web site
Hope this is compatible with all web browers
Please give your comment on this unique flash design
kushan

It's cute but Flash for navigation is pure poison because many browsers don't support it. Most notably Apple iPad, iPhone & iTouch do not support Flash. How will those users navigate your site?
For all practical purposes, Flash is dead as a web technology except for gaming sites and special device apps.
I think a better choice is CSS styled menus to support the majority of users. If you want to add some animation to your site, look at HTML5, CSS3 transitions and JavaScript
See Adobe Edge
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
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Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Technical Design Review Question: Key Figures

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
In the discussions of Key Figures, a table was provided showing Name, description, source field, data type and Unit. With the exception of 5 of them, all the key figures had data type as Curr(17,2).
My confusion is why all their equivalent Units were 0Currency while the 4 exceptions which had Data Type QUAN(17,2) had Units of the form zvv90_ME, zvv094_ME, etc.
I will appreciate your thoughts on these.
Thanks

All the Key figures which are curr(17,2) are meant to be used as Amounts which can be ties to different currencies..
Like The key figure might have a number 1,000 and the corresponding entry in 0currency might be USD which means its $1000.
You can find all the valid currency keys in the TCURC table..
On similar lines For Key figures which specify quantity a few examples will be ;
100 pc
30 Hr
Where the unit is stored in 0UNIT.
Ashish

Technical Design Review Question: Requirements.

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the Requirements, I saw a reference to some terms and I am wondering whether they are standard BW terms that I missed or, whether they are some abbreviations related to the particular project.
Product Contribution, Gross Margin, etc. reports from SAID, RAPID, and SMRS must be enabled from the BW COPA design
Any clarification on the above quote and are SAID, RAPID, and SMRS some terms in BW or some abbreviations in the project.
Thanks.

Hi Caud,
I think it's better to directly ask your client !
Probably it's something related to reportins system...
??? SMRS = (Study Management and Reporting System from PercipEnz Technologies, Inc) or (Standard Mortality Ratios)
RAPID = http://www.microwavenews.com/rapidereport.html
...but are you working on an healht and science project ?!?

Technical Design Review Question: Operating Concern.

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the Data Flow Description, it was noted that
The operating concern will be 1010
Any clarification on the above 1010? Any clarification as to how the decisions on the operating concerns are made? What are the options and why is one chosen over the other.
Thanks.

Hi Caud,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/7a/4c38b54a0111d1894c0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Try to take a look to this operating concern definition to better understand which char, value and account compose it to better understand how your company build this organizational unit (with a more or less uniform structure) related to its sales and the reason for what they choos this OC rather than another one !
Hope it helps!
Bye,
ROberto

Technical Design Review Question: Data target Mapping and transformation

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
In the discussions of Data target Mapping and transformation, there was a table of characteristics, showing dimensions, BW filed, Source field, data type, etc.
1. What is the technique in deciding which characteristics get grouped together into a particular dimension?
2. Why do some dimensions only have one characteristic and what is its significance?
3. I saw one BW field, OVAL_TYPE (description= valuation type) included in three dimensions: Customer, Material and Valuation Type(only field=OVAL_TYPE). What is the significance of this repetition?
Thanks

Morning,
To define Dimension means, to group all characters together, which do have a relationship "1 to n" and not "n to m" to reduce data volume (cardinality). If you reduce cardinality (which means to define 1:m relationship whenever it is possible and group them within one common dimension) you increase performance (make performance better) because of less data volume. It is essential to understand that this can not be changed easily after definition in PROD. So data modeling is also from this point of view very important.
Example:
An accounting object has a "m:n" relation ship to the accounting partner object. that's the reason way accounting object and accounting partner object do not belong to the same dimension.
Ni hao
Eckhard Lewin

Technical Design Review Question: InfoPackage Selection

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the discussions of InfoPackage Selection, a statement
The budgets InfoSource will have full/Replace loads, based on plan version
Can you explain what this statement may mean? I am not sure I get it right.
Thanks.

Hi Caud !
I think that thi statement refers to the possibility to delete the content of an infoprovider for the same selection criteria...so, in this case, you have to load budget data on the basis of the plan version and delete (replace) the already existing data for the same plan version loaded before !
Hope it helps!
Bye,
Roberto
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f8/e5603801be792de10000009b38f842/content.htm

Technical Design Review Question: Characteristics --UNITS

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the discussions of characteristics I find that some were user defined i.e. begins with z and others 0.
How is the decision made to create your own Units? And in particular, what are the steps to define it in BW for the system to know it? Need to do the same on R/3 side?
Thanks.

Hi,
You do not need to create the units and currencies in BW system .Those will be populated from R/3 system .For the updation of unit and currency table(in BW) you have an option in the context menu of source sytem in the source sytem tree(RSA1).
With rgds,
Anil Kumar Sharma .P

Technical Design Review Question: Technical Build

I got my hands on technical design documentation for a project on COPA budget. I came up with a few questions but I will post them separately for fast closing and awards:
1. In the discussions of the technical build steps, the Profit Center was to be made the field for partitioning.
How is such a decision made?
And what is the implication?
Thanks.

Hi,
If the reports are profit center specific , you can built
the partitions on base of profit center. That means
reports does not take the data from multiple profit
center , then take that characterstic as base for
partition.
Here you will go for logical partitioning by
multiproviders.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw32/helpdata/en/33/dc2038aa3bcd23e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/bestpractices/crossindustry/businessintelligence/v131/documentation/Multi-dimensional_modeling_EN.doc
With rgds,
Anil Kumar Sharma .P
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