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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By : Valentin Hamburger
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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By: Valentin Hamburger

Overview of this book

VMware offers the industry-leading software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture that combines compute, storage, networking, and management offerings into a single unified platform. This book uses the most up-to-date, cutting-edge VMware products to help you deliver a complete unified hybrid cloud experience within your infrastructure. It will help you build a unified hybrid cloud based on SDDC architecture and practices to deliver a fully virtualized infrastructure with cost-effective IT outcomes. In the process, you will use some of the most advanced VMware products such as VSphere, VCloud, and NSX. You will learn how to use vSphere virtualization in a software-defined approach, which will help you to achieve a fully-virtualized infrastructure and to extend this infrastructure for compute, network, and storage-related data center services. You will also learn how to use EVO:RAIL. Next, you will see how to provision applications and IT services on private clouds or IaaS with seamless accessibility and mobility across the hybrid environment. This book will ensure you develop an SDDC approach for your datacenter that fulfills your organization's needs and tremendously boosts your agility and flexibility. It will also teach you how to draft, design, and deploy toolsets and software to automate your datacenter and speed up IT delivery to meet your lines of businesses demands. At the end, you will build unified hybrid clouds that dramatically boost your IT outcomes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Capacity planning


So far the monitoring and prediction of used capacity has been discussed in this chapter. But there is also a planning aspect to prevent low or risky resource situations. vROps will also allow for this capacity planning tasks with an extra tab called Projects.

At the beginning of this chapter, it was explained that resources where often added or bought based on projects and that this is no longer accurate for an SDDC. This statement was referring to large projects requiring also hardware resources to be bought. Based on this projects entire areas of data center might have been filled with servers, storage and compute.

In an SDDC, projects are still relevant and eventually will even increase popularity since they can be much quicker be realized. This is also referred to as time to market or sometimes, time to value. Since the SDDC is offering infinite resources on demand with a simple mouse click, it is the ideal platform for any project.

In reality, this illusion is only possible...