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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

Connecting vRealize Automation


Since NSX is installed and configured for basic functionality, vRA can be connected to the NSX manager in order to make usage of some advanced NSX functionalities.

In order to connect vRA to NSX, it is required to log on using a user with the tenant administrator role active.

Note

If the integrated vRO is used, nothing else is required. If the external vRO is used, make sure that all necessary plugins are installed, such as the NSX plugin for vRA. Otherwise, the connection will not work.

Follow these steps in order to enable NSX for vRA:

  1. Login to the vRA portal using the tenant administrator role.
  2. Click on Infrastructure and then on Endpoints.
  3. Hover over the vCenter endpoint and select Edit. In the configuration window, add the following information.
    1. Select Specify manager for network and security platform.
    2. Put in the NSX manager address, for example, https://nsx.example.com.
    3. Provide valid NSX credentials, if not already existent use the New icon to create those.
  4. Click...