vSphere (2011-2020)
vSphere is the industry-leading server virtualization software and the heart of a modern SDDC, helping you run, manage, connect, and secure your applications in a common operating environment across clouds. It enables IT departments to efficiently place application workloads on the most cost-effective compute resource available.
Product Designs
Landing Pages
Every successful product should have some type of landing page that serves as an entry point for the user. The following designs show two typical landing pages.
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A dashboard that is used by more advanced VI admins to monitor the state of their virtual infrastructure and vCenter Server resource consumption, while also troubleshoot VI objects that may cause downtime or performance bottlenecks.
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A help center that gets novice VI admins acquainted with typical VI building blocks, how to perform typical E2E workflows to set up a basic virtual infrastructure, and new features that servers for novice and advanced VI admins and show newly available features after a vSphere update.
The vSphere dashboard vision that I initiated, advocated, and lead into development was demoed at Dell EMC World 2017 (with CEO Pat Gelsinger) during a VM provisioned workflow.
vSphere Licensing
vSphere provides a centralized license management system that you can use to manage licenses for ESXi hosts, vCenter Server systems, vSAN clusters, Supervisors, and solutions. Licensing is a vital operation in managing your on-premises vSphere infrastructure to avoid downtime and be EULA complaint.
My contributed value
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Designed numerous UI workflows for license management.
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Discovered major pitfalls and critical user facing issues of how licensing admin license their vSphere objects and sync licenses with their MyVMware Licensing Portal
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Lead UI/UX team in validating findings through user research with our customers.
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Defined use cases based on validations which paved the way for vSphere Online Sync UI/UX vision
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Translated uses cases and UX requirements into well mapped out End-2-End user stories and workflows.
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Social Web Client - Mentoring Intern Project
I was responsible for mentoring an intern by starting off his career track as a Product Designer. We worked together to brainstorm the idea of integrating social networking features into vSphere to allow admins to collaborate with VMware support and with other admins while administrating and managing their virtual infrastructures.
My contributed value
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Hired and mentored intern through a well crafted UX curriculum based on a User Centered Design process.
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Proposed project of integrating social networking into vSphere Web Client along with defining use cases and value proposition through user research with internal users.
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Defined list of project features based on use cases.
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Designed pixel perfect UI prototypes and validated them with users through usability testing.
vSphere Networking
Networking is a vital domain in vSphere that allows the connectivity between virtual machines, hosts and datastores within your virtual infrastructure. Configuring standard and distributed switches, physical network adapters, vmkernel adapters, port groups and other networking components can establish building blocks that provide business critical services such as vMotion, vSphere Replication, vSAN cluster, FT, and others.
My contributed value
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Simplified numerous user workflows for already complicated networking configurations for vital vSphere managed objects like hosts, VMs, distributed switches, and datastores that are vital objects for configuring features such as vSAN, Fault Tolerance, VM replications, and other vSphere features.
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Proposed and defined Clone Networking assistant feature to help networking admins easily configure hosts across their infrastructure.
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Proposed numerous usability improvements and UI/UX requirements when porting all networking workflows from vSphere from Adobe Flex to HTML5
vSphere Storage
vSphere provides a software-defined storage platform that integrates with block, file, and hyper-converged offerings such as VMware vSAN. These storage offerings can be exposed as VMFS, NFS, vVols, or vSAN datastores.
vSphere has enterprise grade features, such as Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM), that enable users to define performance, availability, and redundancy levels requested by their business critical applications and ensure compliance with these requirements. vSphere provides high availability and redundancy at a compute and data level for all workloads.
My contributed value
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Proposed numerous usability improvements and UI/UX requirements when porting SPBM functionality and workflows from vSphere from Adobe Flex to HTML5
