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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 vRealize Configuration Manager architecture design


The VMware vRealize Configuration Manager architecture design was developed to support virtual infrastructure compliance and change management within the customer environment. The required platform being defined here will be used to assist a customer with configuration, change, and compliance of their virtual infrastructure, including the guest computing resources, as well as provide a tool for patching both Linux and Windows Server guest machines.

This chapter details the recommended implementation of a vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) foundation architecture based on VMware recommended practices and specific customer requirements and goals. The document provides both logical and physical design considerations that encompass all VMware VCM-related infrastructure components, including requirements and specifications for virtual machines, networking and storage, and management. After this initial foundation architecture is successfully...