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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

Summary


Congratulations, this was the configuration of your first blueprint, including advanced parameters; the new service is now ready to be ordered using the catalog menu. This concludes the chapter on vRA. It was meant to provide powerful insights of what this tool can achieve with the right configuration.

Although it is impossible to describe every function in great detail in this chapter, this should be an overview of the most important functionalities. Finally, the chapter concluded in a series of sample configurations to create a first Windows service blueprint for a pre-existing catalog.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on vRealize Orchestrator. This is the powerful counterpart to vRA and will enhance the deployment of VMs by running individual workflows based on properties. Also, it can be used to create completely new services based on workflows which will be imported as XaaS services to be ordered using the vRealize portal.