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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

vSphere virtualization software


vSphere provides a powerful solution to address customers' business continuity/disaster recovery requirements, High Availability (HA), and SLAs for mission-critical applications. The consolidation, automation, HA, and security benefits of vSphere also help to simplify IT operations:

vSphere 6.5: A platform for a private cloud

VMware helps to accommodate customer requirements using an appropriate VMware architecture with the design qualities shown in the following table:

Design Quality

Description

Scalability

Refers to the ability of vSphere-as well as the related network, storage, and security elements-to handle a growing volume of work in a capable manner, or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

Extensibility

Refers to how well the system is designed to include hooks and mechanisms for expanding and enhancing the system with anticipated capabilities, without having to make major changes to system infrastructure.

Availability

Refers to the ability...