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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

Basics and recommendations for vSphere in the SDDC


This chapter is not discussing general vSphere basics, the title might be slightly misleading. You should already have a profound vSphere knowledge and know your way around in vCenter server. Also, you should know how to setup and configure an ESXi server. However, in a traditional vSphere environment, some features might not be as important and therefore they might not be considered to be used. This chapter is to touch some basic features, which will help you in efficiently setting up your SDDC on top of vSphere.

All these recommendations are based on good practice, but they will not replace the need for a design of the vSphere infrastructure to meet your SDDCs requirements. The vSphere design is a very important point and should not be underestimated.

Besides that, here are some vSphere prerequisites for a successful SDDC installation:

  • Check the interoperability matrix for all used VMware products
  • Ensure the most recent version of vSphere...