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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

SDDC object life cycle


Everything, such as compute, storage, network, memory, and security, is becoming software-defined within a software-defined data center. This includes all of the policy-based management and automation tools that are used to enable a mixed cloud, including virtualized infrastructure. These tools have their own configurations that help to define and manage SDDC. These configurations have their own life cycle and this raises the question, "What's the most effective way to manage the life cycle of these SDDC objects?".

Dashboards, reports, blueprints, templates, properties, pipelines, and workflows are very important in defining how you manage your SDDC. All these objects require their own level of management. We can create something and start getting value out of the automation and abstraction that it provides at a primary stage. The need to maintain a common library of these objects, and configuration becomes critical as the number increases.

A lot of manual effort is...