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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

Service catalogs


This basically reflects the shop front end of vRA. Service catalogs are categories and contain their various services. vRA does not limit the number of service catalogs, nor their name or function in any matter. There can be numerous Service catalogs be created. All the names are basically freeform text, however, there are some best practices and standards which may make sense to follow, since all cloud provider will have similar naming and functionality.

In Chapter 5 , VMware vRealize Automation the three most used categories have been briefly discussed, those are basically IaaS, PaaS as well as XaaS. The latter category is a VMware introduced term and describes Anything as a Service.

Besides the as a Service ending, there are endless possibilities. There are also other categories in the market such as:

  • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    • These are offerings like Gmail, Salesforce, Office 365

  • Backup as a Service (BaaS)

  • Storage as a Service (STaaS)

  • Database as a Service (DBaaS)

    • This often...