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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

Summary


You have learned how to define priorities for applications migration, calculate the effort required to migrate them, understand the one-time operating expenses involved and predict the timeline by documenting the dependencies, create a dependency tree (workflow), and select the tools which you need to build or customize. You have learned how to build a cloud migration roadmap. Most customers leave this step and quickly jump to the next phase of building a pilot project as it gives them a better understanding of the technologies and tools, and also builds confidence to move ahead.

In this chapter, we have learned how VMware Cloud on AWS benefits customers with the best of both worlds from a single unified platform. This new cross cloud service will make it easier for customers to retain their investment in existing applications and processes while taking advantage of the global presence, advanced capabilities, and scale of the AWS public cloud. Customers will be able to leverage their...