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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


Some of the vRA concepts have been already addressed in Chapter 4, SDDC Design Considerations . However, there are a few concepts of vRA which are critical to understand in order to create a sound configuration of the portal and its functionalities. The most important concept is the service concept. It can be seen as the central point of vRA and therefore should be well understood.

vRA organizes deployments in so-called services and service catalogs. A service is far more than just one VM; it can consist of various different constructs. However, a service always starts with a blueprint.

As a Service synonyms

In the cloud space, there are many as a Service definitions around. Unfortunately, not all of them mean the same thing, even if they use the same acronym. This is a list of the most popular and most used acronyms and how they are translated into vRA.

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and is probably the most popular cloud abbreviation. Normally, if organizations refer...