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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

Integration with different cloud components


Integration is a process in which separately produced components or subsystems are combined and problems with their interactions are addressed.

VMware provides solution integrations through an ecosystem, which can be found at the VMware Solution Exchange website (https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/).

vSphere integration

vRealize Log Insight can be configured to pull data for tasks, events, and alarms that occur in one or more vCenter server instances. vRealize Log Insight uses the vSphere API to connect to vCenter Server systems and collect data.

You can also configure ESXi hosts to forward syslog data to vRealize Log Insight.

The support for vSphere products is as follows:

Type of integration

Supported product versions

Tasks, events, and alarms data collection

vCenter Server 5.1 and later

Syslog feeds

ESXi 4.1 and later

The vSphere Integration design decision is as follows:

Design decision

Design justification

Design implication

All vCenter Servers and ESXi...