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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 9.  DevOps Considerations

This chapter will discuss general DevOps topics such as what can be understood as DevOps and why this might be a game changer in application development and running businesses. It will describe the basic functions and fundaments in regard to DevOps as well as its radical new approaches to developing and operating new applications.

It will require some familiarity with the basics of software development as well as some basics in regard to public cloud offerings and knowledge about software containers.

Based on these points, the chapter will also highlight integration points between an SDDC for legacy applications (all non-cloud-native apps) and a DevOps-ready infrastructure. It will highlight how these two different approaches can coexist and what a hybrid SDDC unlocks in terms of options and possibilities from a business as well as a technology perspective.

The following topics are covered in greater detail in this chapter:

  • What is DevOps
  • Radical new IT approach...