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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

Network virtualization logical design


The NSX DFW solution will be deployed over an existing VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure, coupled with an existing cloud consumption management platform. The solution has two independent deployment target data centers.

Within this deployment, the construct of the cloud tenant has been declined by the customer in the project entity, which is identified as a group of VMs characterized by the same customer, application, reference environment, and network zone. The tenant and project are considered as the same entity in the following descriptions.

NSX for vSphere architecture will consist of the following clusters, as per VMware best practices:

  • A set of management clusters (one for the smaller site, two for the second site) containing the NSX Manager instance, the vCenter Server instances, and any other management VMs that are needed by the cloud and IAAS manager. The clusters don't have the underlying hosts prepared for NSX for vSphere to protect...