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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

The business use case


This is also often referred to as business use case and should describe an IT need from a business perspective. Many organizations have such cases, but some lack of translating them into IT needs. Sometimes, there is simply no communication between the lines of business and the IT. This often ends in a bad relationship between those two departments. Often the business thinks IT is too slow, complex and ancient to understand their needs and deliver what they ask for. On the other hand, the IT often gets just a fraction of the problem, but then it has already escalated a few times and now only complaints reach the IT department.

Since a successful SDDC is about communication (people, processes, technology) it is important to understand the business needs of an organization to create a solution which is capable of supporting them and even give them an advantage over the competition. The first step of creating your SDDC design is to document and question that business need...