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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By : Valentin Hamburger
Book Image

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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

vRealize Operations Manager


In the VMware suite of products necessary for a Software Defined Data Center, these tools are actually a must. vRealize Operations is covered in Chapter 10, Capacity Management with vRealize Operations when it came to capacity monitoring. But actually, it can deliver so much more including performance analytic, anomaly detection as well as relational mapping of items. It is also capable of modeling KPIs, and it creates super metrics (metrics consistent out of many others to deliver a single baseline) To complete the set of supporting tools, vRealize Log Insight for log management and analytics makes a perfect add-on to the monitoring toolset. It can handle a very high amount of logs and make them searchable in a quick and easy way. It features the creation of custom log dashboards as well as nice precreated vendor adapters.

Analytics using vRealize Operations Manager

Even though this entire chapter is about monitoring, vRealize Operations Manager is actually a...