Converged infrastructure systems simplify upfront integration efforts and operations compared to the 3-tier traditional approach. Even then, it doesn't get the efficiency, scalability, and agility that customers need to compete and succeed in markets. CIOs used to take decisions by adapting public cloud apps or emerging data center appliances under market pressure in an attempt to run more efficiently. This approach will introduce further complexities like heterogeneity and vulnerabilities, which increase OpEx costs. VMware Cloud Foundation gives customers better options from the operational perspective, and also minimizes upfront CapEx.
IT teams running a virtualized data center based on the 3-tier architecture model are considered in this chapter. They used to do activities like planning and build-up, system configuration, provisioning capacity, life cycle management, and many more, such as back-up, monitoring, integration, application architecture, and so on...