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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

Summary


In this chapter, the monitoring and analytics methods for the SDDC have been discussed. It was not only explained how to use the toolset from VMware, but also that there are new concepts required in order to identify issues before they harm the environment. The mission of all these concepts and tools is to limit the impact on the user. In a perfect world, there will be none, these methods and tools will support the operations teams of an SDDC to achieve this difficult goal.

The next chapter will discuss the need for continuous service improvement. A lot of procedures have been changed in order to make the SDDC run properly, but this is just the beginning. An agile and healthy SDDC is always changing; therefore, it is important to revisit changes from time to time in order to make sure that they are still relevant. This chapter will discuss how to consistently and continuously improve the service quality in order to stay relevant for the SDDC user.