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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

Monitoring and analytics in the SDDC


As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, the SDDC introduces some challenges, which cannot be easily overcome with traditional monitoring systems. This becomes clear if one looks at the traditional versus the SDDC way of deploying services and workloads.

In the traditional data center, workloads are often deployed in form of projects. They have a distinct function (web server, application server, database, and so on) as well as foreseeable workload profile. Based on this, the monitoring admin can set a set of thresholds to make sure that the workload is working within its expected range. Normally, these thresholds are CPU usage, memory usage, swapping, disk space, and so on.

A monitoring system is aware of the new server and is associating all these thresholds to the server. If one of these values are violated, it will send a warning or an alarm to the monitoring team or the administrator. This has been used for years in the data center and is a well...