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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

Over the past two decades, VMware vSphere has been known as the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform. VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture shows you how to design and configure Cross Cloud Architecture by using VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite with various use cases across private, public, and hybrid Cloud. This book takes you through everything from a basic understanding of virtualization to advanced aspects of storage and network virtualization, clustering, automation, and management. This book will be your guide to designing all aspects of Cloud. We start with the challenges faced by a traditional data center, define problem statements for you, and then brief you on respective solutions. Moving on, all kinds of virtualization and Cloud offerings from AWS and IBM Soft Layer are introduced and discussed in detail. Then, you'll learn how to design IT infrastructures for new and existing applications with a combination of Cloud Foundation, vRealize Suite, and vSphere enabled with VSAN and NSX. Furthermore, you'll learn how to design and configure high availability, disaster recovery, and apply an appropriate compliance matrix. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to calculate the TCO/ROI, along with the VMware products packaging and licensing in detail.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

A traditional 3-tier architecture-based private cloud


We can build a private cloud using traditional 3-tier systems with various software products included in order to build a partially integrated SDDC solution. We have gone through various traditional 3-tier integrated systems or converged infrastructures as well as 3-tier do-it-yourself (DIY) reference architectures. Figure 3 shows the basic approach to the rack design using a traditional 3-tier architecture:

  • Networking: Spine and Leaf based on networking provided by industry leaders. Hardware-based load balancing and security was used when needed in lieu of software-based.
  • Management cluster: A dedicated set of isolated servers forms a compute cluster, which is sized to host all dedicated management software for operating both the hardware and virtualization software infrastructure.
  • Compute cluster: A dedicated set of servers reserved exclusively for hosting private cloud workloads. All servers were based on blade servers with necessary...