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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
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Preface

Summary


This chapter described capacity management in the SDDC. It was talking about useful techniques to stay on top of the unpredictable nature of the SDDC demand. It also discussed some resource management basics, which are necessary to gain a better understanding of vRealize Operations Manger displayed graphics. Finally it discussed some pro-active tasks like capacity planning. The last section discussed how to use reports and views in order to create custom data providers. Also scheduling aspects of reports where discussed in order to ensure that data can be proactively sent to a capacity management team.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on troubleshooting and monitoring of the SDDC. It will introduce concepts based on best practices and experience to avoid worst-case scenarios. Also it will discuss vRealize Operations from an analytics standpoint to detect anomalies and report those. Furthermore the use of actions attached to alarms is discussed. Finally it will also discuss the...