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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

VMware Cross-Cloud Model with IBM Cloud


VMware's Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) on IBM Cloud enables existing VMware virtualized data center customers to extend their footprint into the IBM Cloud and includes use cases like capacity expansion into the cloud (scale up as well as scale down), migration to the cloud, disaster recovery to the cloud, backup into the cloud, and the ability to configure and provision a customized cloud environment for development, testing, training or a lab kind of setup.

We will brief you about the design of the advanced version of the VMware SDDC on IBM Cloud, which is capable of designing high levels of scalability across multiple global regions:

An introduction to VMware SDDC on IBM Cloud

Prerequisites

The design requires the following prerequisites:

  • Customer has to acquire all needed software licenses/ keys for all products used in this design before starting implementation
  • Customer has to have a SoftLayer account
  • Customer has to bear for SoftLayer costs for...