A successful vSphere deployment requires an appropriate plan to avoid problems of incompatibility, performance, and instability with the commitment of remaining within the available budget.

Three main areas should be considered when planning a vSphere deployment:

• Choosing the hardware platform
• Identification of the storage architecture and protocols (NFS, iSCSI, FC, or FCoE)
• Network configuration (number of NICs, FC adapters, 1GBoE, or 10GBoE NICs)