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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 described the basic catalog design as well as the different catalog types. The business case and the expectations are main drivers for filling a catalog with the right services. Also, the difference between technology-focused and outcome focused catalogs has been described. The main part was also to describe how to setup and create an outcome focused blueprint in vRA which will provide a fully running service on demand.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on network virtualization. This is a huge topic in an SDDC since it can enhance flexibility and security aspects of a data center. Nevertheless, it will also increase complexity since it adds another layer to take care of. The chapter will discuss NSX basics and describe its main functions and features. Furthermore, it will describe how to include NSX networks in blueprints and how to create on demand networks while provisioning VM resources.