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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 3. VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation

VMware vSphere is the foundation for the SDDC. It is the hypervisor to build the rest of the automation and management functionally upon. Consider it as the basement for your data center automation. vSphere is often seen as the given infrastructure provider. Like a real basement, it is sometimes not seen as the important bit of a cloud or SDDC environment.

However, this does not mean that it is unimportant, as every support or basement installation; if you make mistakes here, your whole SDDC might be weak and loose. Also, vSphere is offering automation, which is built already into the hypervisor. While some of these functions might be not as important for traditional environments, they are a huge time saver for an SDDC. Every vSphere functionality, which is offering time and effort savings should be strongly considered for the SDDC.

Note

If you haven't already considered an Enterprise Plus license for vSphere, you may do so now. Enterprise Plus...