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Intelligent Automation with VMware

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

Intelligent Automation with VMware

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

PKS on vSphere


vSphere cluster groups are sets of ESXi hosts that have a common compute entity; there are from 2 to 64 hosts per vSphere cluster when vSphere HA and DRS are activated at the cluster level. Resource pools are created under a vSphere cluster instance, and vCenter is able to manage multiple vSphere clusters instances, as there is no hard limit to the number of vSphere clusters. We can create different types of vSphere clusters, such as management clusters, compute clusters, and Edge clusters, since PKS fully leverages the vSphere cluster construct.

The following vSphere clusters are recommended in a typical PKS deployment:

  • Management cluster:
    • Hosted components: vCenter, NSX manager, and controller VMs
    • vSphere HA and DRS enabled
    • ESXi hosts need to be NSX prepared, as micro-segmentation is enforced on the hosted VMs
  • Compute cluster(s):
    • Hosted components: Kubernetes (K8s) clusters nodes VMs
    • vSphere HA and DRS should be enabled, as BOSH will check whether DRS is turned on
    • ESXi hosts need...