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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By: Ajit Pratap Kundan

Overview of this book

Over the past two decades, VMware vSphere has been known as the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform. VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture shows you how to design and configure Cross Cloud Architecture by using VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite with various use cases across private, public, and hybrid Cloud. This book takes you through everything from a basic understanding of virtualization to advanced aspects of storage and network virtualization, clustering, automation, and management. This book will be your guide to designing all aspects of Cloud. We start with the challenges faced by a traditional data center, define problem statements for you, and then brief you on respective solutions. Moving on, all kinds of virtualization and Cloud offerings from AWS and IBM Soft Layer are introduced and discussed in detail. Then, you'll learn how to design IT infrastructures for new and existing applications with a combination of Cloud Foundation, vRealize Suite, and vSphere enabled with VSAN and NSX. Furthermore, you'll learn how to design and configure high availability, disaster recovery, and apply an appropriate compliance matrix. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to calculate the TCO/ROI, along with the VMware products packaging and licensing in detail.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Best practices to follow for compliance regulations


Compliance regulations and internal auditors tend to focus on a core set of typical control objectives and control activities. Control objectives specify the actions that must be performed to be in compliance with the standard or requirement. Objectives state what needs to be done, but not how to do it. For example, an objective might state, "All administrator actions on the financial production application will be reviewed on a daily basis and correlated with approved change requests."

Control activities are the set of actions that you implement in order to meet the control objective. Activities state how to accomplish objectives and describe exactly how actions are done on a periodic basis to meet the intent of the control objectives. For example, a control activity might be defined with the statement, "Log all administrative activity on the production financial application and review the log daily. All actions in the log are matched with...