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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

Summary


This chapter described DevOps in general. Its purpose and what differences it might bring to an SDDC. The general meaning and purpose of DevOps was discussed in order to understand that this way of creating applications requires different approaches. It also listed several approaches to run cloud-native applications and listed ways to further automate their release and tests. Also, it listed tools to integrate in vRA in order to be able to provide the best of both worlds for DevOps as well for the classic legacy IT application. Finally, it highlighted a way of applying the DevOps principle to the SDDC service development, in order to leverage its agility and flexibility for the creation and distribution of infrastructure blueprints.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on capacity management in an SDDC. It will highlight why it is important to do predictive capacity planning as well as which tool in the VMware family can be used to further provide this functionality. Also, it will...