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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 8. Network Virtualization using NSX

This chapter will focus on the network virtualization technologies available for the VMware SDDC. Network virtualization is a new topic that has become important for the agile and flexible data center. When deploying services, the network part is often crucial since there are various security requirements that need to be met with an application. Also, there might be pre-existing network requirements that need to be fulfilled when porting the application to the environment. Finally, it will harm the overall agility if the whole OS deployment and storage deployment can be done automatically, but the network part might actually require human interaction. A true end-to-end automation is not quite possible without network virtualization. If it is not in place, it may cause delays and even roadblocks in SDDC projects.

This chapter will require basic network knowledge since some medium to advanced network configuration will be discussed in here. It will...