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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 7. Service Catalog Creation

The service catalog is the central element of each cloud environment. Based on the use cases identified it will provide the needed functionality to empower the business and speed up deployment. This will enhance the time to market significantly and enable the whole company to be able to react to market trends faster.

But to enable all these benefits, it is important to understand that this can only be accomplished if the services offered in the catalog are valid and needed by the end users.

This chapter will discuss the service catalog creation, different types of service catalogs, as well as detailed examples of simple and complex service designs.

Also, it will cover in detail how service catalogs are created in vRA and how they can be assigned to a specific business group or tenant, but also be available across different tenants. The later option is necessary if some very basic services might be worth sharing. An example for such service catalogs can be...