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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

What is DevOps


The term DevOps is an artificially created word and joins development and operations together in one term. In a traditional IT environment, two or more different teams perform those two disciplines. One team is responsible for developing the applications and their patches and fixes. The operations department is typically responsible for running the application and providing the required environment (physical or virtual infrastructure, networks, storage, and so on).

Typically, such environments are VMs with some kind of OS installed and the necessary addition to support the application. In case of Java, they would have the required binaries ready, so the developer can start using the environment to run the Java code.

Although this is working for years, it is a very static approach and can lead to some handover issues between the teams. An IT admin might not know the application in greater detail and therefore can only follow the developer's requirements in installing needed software...