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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

VMware Cloud Foundation software design


Cloud Foundation controls the software as well as hardware in the environment using SDDC Manager. SDDC Manager is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12: SDDC Manager design

SDDC Manager has three major functions, as described in the following sections.

SDDC Manager

SDDC Manager is capable of managing and monitoring the virtual, as well as physical, components of Cloud Foundation. SDDC Manager further helps you in Cloud Foundation configuration, operations, and management configurations, allowing you to do the following:

  • Abstract, pool, and automate the physical components into a virtual entity.
  • Scale up/down hosts or switches to the rack. Adding more racks brings scalability, performance enhancements, and easy failure management.
  • Orchestrate and automate the lifecycle of logical components and management-plane components of Cloud Foundation.
  • Trend analysis and proactive mapping of resources depending on their profiles, events, and operations such as vCenter...