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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

Architecture overview


Let's look at the architecture in detail in the following sections.

Conceptual design

The following figure illustrates the design at a high level for the customer:

Conceptual design (for DC)

Logical design

Software-defined storage logically extends the abilities that exist with compute resources to the storage infrastructure. Rather than using CPU or RAM reservations, limits, and shares, with software-defined storage, the administrator defines policies that are assigned to virtual machines and allows the characteristics of the storage to be defined and changed as business requirements change. Software-designed storage logical design is illustrated here:

Software-defined storage logical design

The software-defined storage architecture design addresses all the functional components of a solution that have an impact on the resulting logical designs in the environment.

Virtual SAN (vSAN)

vSphere has an embedded software-defined storage solution called vSAN in its hypervisor footprint...