Decision Summary

Aligning technical decisions with business requirements is important to project success. Failure to clearly identify functional requirements that align with the business often results in a design that does not meet business needs.

In this step, the project team collected the following requirements:

  • Present and future locations in scope for the project

  • Characteristics of each location that’s in scope for the project

  • Requirements for supporting self-service provisioning of VMs

  • Management requirements for the project

These requirements drive technical decisions in subsequent steps. The outputs of this step include a detailed list of locations in scope for Virtual Machine Manager, self-servicing requirements, and management requirements. ...

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