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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


The VMware Cloud assess, design, and deploy service delivers a SDDC that expands the power of virtualization and automation to data center services. This service provides integrated SDDC infrastructure for the enterprise that includes VMware best practices in a practical and scalable design that is holistic, cohesive, and modular. This chapter summarized the following:

  • Cloud infrastructure: This module provides a foundational approach to building a software-defined data center architecture delivered in a single physical data center. It consists of compute, storage, and network virtualization capabilities and provides a design that considers scalability and availability of management components, utilizing the underlying virtualization platform.
  • Cloud operations: This module provides comprehensive monitoring for the software-defined data center. The foundational monitoring platform delivers performance and capacity management dashboards for management components.
  • Cloud automation: This...