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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

Software-defined storage overview


The software-defined storage module expands the power of virtualization by adding VMware vSAN, fully integrated, hypervisor-converged, storage software, to an environment. Virtual SAN creates a cluster of server hard disks and solid-state drives that present a flash-optimized, highly resilient, shared-storage datastore to the environment. This allows for on-demand policies to be specified for virtual machines, which enable the administrator to control the capacity, performance, and availability attributes.

Software-defined storage is a key technology in the software-defined data center (SDDC) methodology. This module helps customers on their SDDC journey, so that they realize the benefits of compute-style policies for their storage infrastructure.

Purpose and applicability to the SDDC solution

The software-defined storage module extends the SDDC architecture through the delivery of software-based storage solutions powered by VMware technology. The module provides...