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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

Capacity monitoring in the SDDC


Most organizations do a very basic but well-established form of capacity planning. Typically resources are tied to projects or to a bigger data center initiative. Groups participating that initiative may provide a budget and growth plan. These plans are used to buy required hardware, which will be available for the entire project time phase. Sometimes, if more resources are required as expected, there will be additional servers shipped to fulfill this demand during the project run time. All this requires a proper planning and a big amount of human interaction. Also it requires being aware of what is going on in the data center and a good amount of preplanning.

Traditional monitoring and capacity planning tools might not be able to deal with the different requirements a SDDC introduces. Furthermore, using legacy capacity planning tools might increase the overhead for the workforce and in worst cases maybe even limit the way the SDDC can be consumed.

Since the...