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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

Continual Service Improvement


The ITIL describes standard processes occurring in most organizations. Actually, an SDDC is a way of automating ITIL and enforce standardization and repeatable actions across the entire data center. Often ITIL is reduced to a specific toolset or action within the data center, for example, ticketing systems. But that is only a small fraction of what it does. It basically tries to provide a framework to standardize and streamline the delivery of IT services. Furthermore, it also provides options to predefine services so they can be delivered multiple times in a similar format.

Besides that, it also regulates what a change is and what the actions are in order to make changes. Data centers across the globe have made great use of these suggestions in order to streamline their IT tasks and make sure that maintenance can be predicted. Also, this kind of documented changes is necessary in order to prevent any unforeseen consequences when it comes to incorporate patches...