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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

Revisiting the business case


As the implementation of the SDDC might have taken quite some time it is important to revisit the business case and see if it still fits. The business might have changed its demands and therefore the data center automation might also need a change or an update. The initially created service might still be relevant, but there might be new services required to serve other cases. Therefore it is wise to keep the business close to the IT in order to be aware of actual requirements.

In the new SDDC environment, the introduction of new services should be simpler as in the non-automated data center. However, that does not mean that this works without planning and designing. There might be a domino effect if a single blueprint is changed affecting also other systems.

Such a change might be the introduction of a new service, which includes the automated installation of all components. It might be a business system, which can be ordered on demand and is completely deployed...