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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

Hardware and software cost analysis


The approach used to calculate the cost metrics for each of these scenarios was to build solutions that matched the preceding characteristics. When possible, for the 3-tier systems, the hardware and software BOM structure exactly matched those provided by a vendor's own reference architecture. The list prices were obtained from vendor pricing tools, vendor reseller quotes, and pricing databases. Because of the constraints on building real systems based on real pricing, not every dimension in the area of compute/storage/memory ratios could be matched exactly. Instead of trying to force fit the ratio, it is left up to the readers to gauge the importance of each variable when comparing the scenarios.

The costs of the solutions were calculated in the following categories:

Hardware CapEx

For compute/server/networking, the actual prices of components were used based on current vendor pricing, and vendor reseller quotes for compute, storage, and networking resouces...