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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

Defining a catalog


The catalog definition is based on various different factors. Its content should be easily guessed by its name. Also, the content should be sharing characteristics, which will enable to easily identify it as part of a distinct service catalog.

Here are a few examples of service catalogs and their possible contained service:

IaaS: Normally this is a catalog providing only OS installs with no further software installation or other customization. This catalog may offer a quick way to deploy an OS (with IP, domain join, security hardening, and so on) but nothing more than that.

Typical services are:

  • Windows (different versions)
  • Linux (different versions)
  • Bare metal resources (install Windows/Linux on a blade or rack server).

Typically an IaaS service catalog is the first to start with since it delivers a fundamental functionality of every SDDC. It can easily deploy a VM containing an OS of choice including the integration into the third party management framework. Although there...