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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By : Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar
Book Image

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By: Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
VMware vSphere Design Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Cloud computing essentials


Cloud computing is a solution that provides Computing as a Service via a public accessible portal and offers computing resources on demand, such as desktop-to-data centers and hybrid Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The most essential characteristics of every cloud product are pay-per-use, elastic resources, self-service, and so on.

Cloud computing services are classified into three major groups:

  • IaaS

  • PaaS

  • SaaS

The following diagram illustrates a conceptual view of these services:

Cloud computing as a service more than a product—in other words, shared resources, software, and data—and is provided to end-user devices as a service over a network. The following diagram illustrates traditional computing components as services:

Let's get started by understanding each service. We'll begin with IaaS. It has the ability to deliver computing resources, such as a VDI, DaaS, VMs, to cloud consumers. Other essential computing systems can be delivered to consumers as well, where...