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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

Log management in the SDDC


Although vROps is a perfect tool to analyze and monitor any workload, it has its limits. By default, it is not configured as a log receiver or a syslog server of any type. As described earlier, logs are an important part for troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Not only for the core components but also for all the sub asks and workloads required by the SDDC to run smoothly. Many companies do have already syslog servers running since they have been around for years. The typical syslog server is a global target for all other servers to send their logs to. The reason to do this is to speed up the process of analyzing an error since the admin does not have to connect to each affected system to see its logs.

Millions of log entries

Although this sounds great in theory, the reality is somewhat different. Systems can create a huge amount of logs per day. Multiple systems logging to one single server will quickly produce millions or even billions of logged events. For...