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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

By : Ajit Pratap Kundan
Book Image

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

Managing AWS with vCenter


AWS Management Portal for vCenter gives customers a simple GUI for creating and managing AWS resources from VMware vCenter.

Major advantages of this tool include:

  • You can manage AWS networks, AWS resources using their infrastructure, and grant/remove access to users at the granular level
  • Users can view their applications/resources if they have permission to read, create, and manage/modify EC2 instances
  • AWS Connector for vCenter help users to import their virtual machines in AWS

Administrators for AWS Management Portal for vCenter are responsible for managing an AWS network, known as a VPC, creating environments, and granting users permission to access environments.

Managing administrators on the management portal

We suggest you select different users to administer the management portal. You should be an administrator for both vCenter and the management portal to create an administrator for the management portal.

Steps for adding an administrator

The steps are as follows...