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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

vRA concepts


If this is the first encounter with the tool, it will throw a lot of new terms at administrators, yet to be understood. While it follows VMware's methodology and naming conventions, there are a couple of things which are not used by any other tool in the VMware ecosystem.

vRA's little helper

Besides the portal itself, vRA requires some helper services to actually get things done in the underlying environment. During the setup, those are configured and aligned to work together with vRA to be able to automate the underlying infrastructure.

DEM

DEM is sometimes also referred to as the manager service. Basically, this component is connecting vRA to possible deployment targets for VMs. This can be vCenter (as suggested during the wizard-driven installation for vRA) but it can also be other hypervisor targets such as Hyper-V or KVM. Besides that, vRA will also be able to connect to external clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), vCloud Air (VMware), and Microsoft Azure, as well as...