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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

Cost comparison methodology and approach


The systems were configured and optimized for customers' use cases, where the quantitative hardware metrics could be considered and compared to reference architectures from different vendors for cost comparison analysis. Each 3-tier system was tuned to meet similar CPU, memory, and storage parameters so that comparative study was possible within the given reference architecture. This helped us to compare VM density in a fair way.

The following are the references used in this comparative approach:

  • A single 42-U rack deployment as infrastructure
  • Use of a vendor's reference architecture
  • Configuration of a solution with the same compute, storage, and networking resources to make the comparison relevant
  • Consideration of key CapEx components with three years of ongoing support costs
  • Leverage of VMware OpEx savings study and model for three years OpEx cost

All traditional 3-tier setups were configured on the same line as the VMware Cloud Foundation setup. Since...