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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By : Valentin Hamburger
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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By: Valentin Hamburger

Overview of this book

VMware offers the industry-leading software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture that combines compute, storage, networking, and management offerings into a single unified platform. This book uses the most up-to-date, cutting-edge VMware products to help you deliver a complete unified hybrid cloud experience within your infrastructure. It will help you build a unified hybrid cloud based on SDDC architecture and practices to deliver a fully virtualized infrastructure with cost-effective IT outcomes. In the process, you will use some of the most advanced VMware products such as VSphere, VCloud, and NSX. You will learn how to use vSphere virtualization in a software-defined approach, which will help you to achieve a fully-virtualized infrastructure and to extend this infrastructure for compute, network, and storage-related data center services. You will also learn how to use EVO:RAIL. Next, you will see how to provision applications and IT services on private clouds or IaaS with seamless accessibility and mobility across the hybrid environment. This book will ensure you develop an SDDC approach for your datacenter that fulfills your organization's needs and tremendously boosts your agility and flexibility. It will also teach you how to draft, design, and deploy toolsets and software to automate your datacenter and speed up IT delivery to meet your lines of businesses demands. At the end, you will build unified hybrid clouds that dramatically boost your IT outcomes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Chapter 12. Continuous Improvement

This chapter will discuss the continuous improvement process, which is required in order to keep the software-defined data center (SDDC) working. In Chapter 2, Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities of this book, the principle of automation and standardization was discussed. Also, the business processes in an organization, which need to be adopted in order to support the different requirements of the SDDC. The required changes to make the SDDC run successfully are not static, though. They need to be as flexible and agile as the SDDC itself.

There are rumors that Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is no longer needed in the SDDC since this is now performing all these tasks requiring documentation and control. But actually, the SDDC is an outcome of ITIL. It is the automated way of running a data center, which forces organizations to standardize and to automate as much as possible. The service catalog is what ITIL called the...