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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 5. VMware vRealize Automation

The CMP of the SDDC is one of the most important components in the entire installation. It is the first point of interaction for users, admins, and even applications if they order/request new services. Also, it needs to be easy to consume, quick, and scalable, as well as responsive and intuitive to use. In a VMware SDDC, this tool is called vRealize Automation (vRA) and it tries to combine all of these assets into a single portal. Also, behind the curtain, it needs to fulfill several other requirements such as multitenancy as well as business and technical approvals for service requests and their policy-based placement.

The another strong deliverable of a self-service portal or a CMP is the abstraction of complex tasks into simple requestable services which do not require any technical skills from the user. Think of it like your organization's App Store which simply enables the deployment of complex and less complex applications. All the user has to do...