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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By : Valentin Hamburger
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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By: Valentin Hamburger

Overview of this book

VMware offers the industry-leading software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture that combines compute, storage, networking, and management offerings into a single unified platform. This book uses the most up-to-date, cutting-edge VMware products to help you deliver a complete unified hybrid cloud experience within your infrastructure. It will help you build a unified hybrid cloud based on SDDC architecture and practices to deliver a fully virtualized infrastructure with cost-effective IT outcomes. In the process, you will use some of the most advanced VMware products such as VSphere, VCloud, and NSX. You will learn how to use vSphere virtualization in a software-defined approach, which will help you to achieve a fully-virtualized infrastructure and to extend this infrastructure for compute, network, and storage-related data center services. You will also learn how to use EVO:RAIL. Next, you will see how to provision applications and IT services on private clouds or IaaS with seamless accessibility and mobility across the hybrid environment. This book will ensure you develop an SDDC approach for your datacenter that fulfills your organization's needs and tremendously boosts your agility and flexibility. It will also teach you how to draft, design, and deploy toolsets and software to automate your datacenter and speed up IT delivery to meet your lines of businesses demands. At the end, you will build unified hybrid clouds that dramatically boost your IT outcomes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Chapter 10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations

This chapter will dive into capacity management for the SDDC. Since requests through the cloud portal now drives the deployment and consumption of services, users expect that there are elastic or nearly limitless resources available. Similar to a public cloud provider, where resources are virtually endless and always available. The big cloud providers typically have a predictive analytics model to understand when if and how they need to provide additional resources to back the users demand.

Typically for a cloud provider, this is accomplished completely transparent in the background. It is their desire to keep the illusion of limitless and endless resources alive for their customers. In the end, this is what a lot of customers are looking for: quick and easy onboarding. No waiting time until some physical installation is going to be finished.

This implies that capacity management in a highly automated environment like the SDDC is a very...