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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

Summary


Network virtualization offers a functioning micro-segmentation solution using the distributed firewall functionality of VMware NSX for vSphere. This service delivers enhanced security protections to workload-workload traffic, either virtual-to-virtual or virtual to physical, and provides granular, dynamic control over security policies within the software-defined data center. This chapter includes the following modules:

  • The micro-segmentation and security service provides assessment, technical validation of pre-requisites, design, deployment, and validation of NSX for vSphere micro-segmentation functionality. This includes L2-L4 distributed firewalls (DFW), the identity firewall, basic service composer, activity monitoring, and logging.
  • The assessment, design, and integration of NSX for vSphere with next-generation firewall-VM Series for NSX and vCenter manager.
  • The implementation of firewall policies, workload traffic, VM-to-VM traffic, redirection to L4-L7 deep packet inspection,...