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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

Cloud-based approaches for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions


Disasters do not only define natural occurrences such as hurricanes, blizzards, and earthquakes, but also manual errors like data breaches and cyber-attacks and even downtime, which can occur because of simple human error. All of these can have the same impact as natural occurrences.

Most customers don't have a proper disaster recovery plan and capabilities to execute disaster recovery testing or a routine DR drill task. You have so many replication technologies on the market, but the difficulties of creating and testing these tasks along with the expense of operating expenses of a secondary site can put a critical application at risk.

vCloud Availability supports customers' vSphere environments by leveraging native vSphere replication and providing the simplest way to secure critical applications. It also helps with native integration with on-premises systems without any third-party agents being loaded, meaning that...