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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

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

Integrated architecture design for virtual machines and applications


This section provides an overview of the consumption components and services that are enabled in VMware NSX to allow converged blueprints to consume virtual machine and application-specific networking and security services. These diagrams can be used during the design workshop to define specific consumption requirements at the virtual machine level:

vRealize automation converged blueprint consumption model

Consumption model of network services components

The following figure explains provisioning blueprints in cloud:

Consumption model with integrated provider network services components

Components and processes for logical switching

Logical switching is the most common network service supported out-of-the-box with NSX for vSphere. This network service enables the extension of an L2 segment/IP subnet anywhere in the fabric, independently of the physical network design. The usage of VXLAN as an overlay to the physical network enables...