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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

Summary


We have learned, in this chapter, how NSX Manager generates self-signed certificates for each of the hosts and controller nodes that are pushed to them over secure channels. A single CA-signed certificate will be installed for the NSX Manager to secure both the management interface and API endpoint on port 443. The vFabric RabbitMQ broker certificates, sent to the NSX Manager for communications with ESXi hosts, are uniquely generated on first boot.

NSX Manager instances on each site are configured to integrate with the vCenter SSO service associated with the vCenter Server instance to which they are bound. This facilitates the secure authentication of vCenter users within NSX for vSphere and any of the identity stores configured under vCenter, including LDAP, Active Directory, and NIS directories. The integration is set up through the NSX Manager user interface by supplying the address and port of the vCenter SSO server.

The NTP settings for the NSX Manager must be configured to ensure...