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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

ITIL in the SDDC


The creation of an SDDC is far more than only the configuration of a view software tools. It begins with finding the right team for the SDDC operations. This team has to be inter-disciplinary in terms of technology to ensure that all aspects of the SDDC can work flawlessly together. Once such a team is built, it has to identify tasks and processes to either automate or substitute with newer ways of completing IT request. This is not an easy task to complete but necessary since it will ensure that further changes and requirements can be easier fulfilled by the SDDC.

Matching the requirements to the solution

After all of this has been outlined the solution has to be designed in order to fulfill the requirements. This will be the later foundation for the configuration and installation and shall incorporate all features and capabilities the solution needs to offer after it is completed. Compared to other designs, which may only include a single component, this one needs to include...