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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

Storage Policy Based Management


Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) is relatively new to the vSphere world. It got introduced with vSphere 5.0 and has been quite enhanced since then. The basic principle of SPBM is to manage the storage in form of VMFS data stores based on precreated policies instead of trying to figure out their function by their name.

Typically, organizations picked a distinct name scheme to apply to the data stores to identify their capabilities. Such a name could look like:

S1PDR040

This is a code to identify what this VMFS data store has to offer. Translated it means:

  • S1 = site 1
  • P = production
  • DR = disaster recovery/replicated data store
  • 040 =LUN ID to identify in ESXi/storage system

All the admins have to know all this abbreviations and codes to quickly identify where a VM should be deployed. While Storage DRS adds one simplification for that since all VMFS of a kind and site could be put together in a big storage cluster, SPBM adds another solution. It can create storage...