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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

Integrated vSphere automation


vSphere already comes with very rich and built-in automation functionality. Initially, all this was added to make the administrators lives easier. Ultimately it was meant to ease the daily operation of medium and large vSphere deployments. Over time, the SDDC evolved and brought up new possibilities to deploy workloads in a vSphere environment.

With this new possibility also requirements are raised regarding basic SLAs like tiering, performance classes, security, and so on.

For the SDDC, the features which made the vSphere administrators live easier have become a huge time saver for any SDDC deployment. Think about the effort savings you get by using all of this automation vSphere provides per default.

These functionalities can save weeks of custom workflow scripting or implementation work. Just remember that VMware's engineers spent a fair amount of time developing all their functionality to blend in perfectly in the vSphere environment. DRS, Storage DRS, vMotion...