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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the main principles of build in vSphere automation and some of its advanced features. From basic HA and resiliency topics, all the way to vSphere integrated resource shaping options are valid functions for the SDDC. By leveraging all these included functions in vSphere and by ensuring that your clusters are meeting HA and resiliency standards this will form a healthy and capable infrastructure layer for your SDDC.

The next chapter will highlight SDDC design considerations to take into account. It will discuss the tools required for the SDDC based on the requirements. Furthermore, it will help you to map business requirements to actual SDDC design elements and to form proper decisions which tools are required. It will touch all components required for an SDDC as well as components to enhance the SDDC possibilities. Also, it will guide you to basic design principles which include assumptions, risks as well as constraints you have to take into account.