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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 platform management


The process through which new and existing firewall rules change has been designed from the Cloud Orchestrator (CO) consumption and orchestration platform. The process covers the lifecycle for establishing firewall rules in the cloud setup:

Firewall configuration process

Message Bus Client: The NSX Manager connected with the ESXi host with a secure protocol called AMQP. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. The defining functionalities of AMQP are message orientation, queuing, and routing, including the point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe).

The vShield-Stateful-Firewall works as a RabbitMQ Client in the ESXi. It is a user space service daemon, and uses a TCP/5671 connection to the RabbitMQ server in the NSX manager. NSX Manager used the message bus to send different information to the ESXi hosts:

The...