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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

IT delivery frameworks


Each IT has its own delivery frameworks. Even if it is a tiny company, there are some tools and actions which need to be performed to successfully deliver any application or service. The term framework means basically that it is a predefined routine or set of tools which should make its delivery easier. These normally consist out of installation tools used for application delivery, deployment tools for OSes and configuration tools for infrastructure. All together they form your delivery framework.

IT is important to understand what function each tool is covering. Sometimes there are tools which already cover a part of a process or an entire process. Then it is important to understand how to interact with those tools and at which point the automation has to handover the task to this tools. A very popular example is ticket managing systems. In bigger companies, they are typically part of the delivery process, even though they serve a rather passive role. However, they...