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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


This chapter touched on the basic data model as well as variable types of vRealize Orchestrator. Although all this is only scratching the surface of vRO, it gave a deep insight into how workflows are created as well as how they could be linked with vRA in order to enable powerful and rich third-party integration points. This is probably one of the vRO's strongest capabilities.

Also, the scripting components based on JavaScript where discussed. Given the well-implemented help for JavaScript and all scripting classes, it should be possible to get up to speed on JavaScript after a little warm-up phase.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on the creation of a rich service catalog. The service catalog is the most important functionality of the SDDC. The services have to be easy to use as well as valuable and useful to the end users based on their business case. The chapter will also discuss how services and service catalogs will be created and maintained in vRA. But not only will the...