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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

Scalability and future growth


If you are about to design your VMware SDDC you should always have growth and scalability in mind while doing so. There is a lot of options to install the needed VMware components for small, medium or even large environments, but it is important that all of them are having their own requirements and limitations.

Keep in mind that albeit there is a very good implementation of a self-service portal in vRealize, the whole SDDC can also be consumed programmatically using APIs. There is APIs for vRealize Automation and its plugins as well as for the vRealize Orchestrator. This might include a scenario where application servers get deployed on a specific day to prevent additional power. After their task is done they are simply removed from the environment to free up the resources for the other existing workloads. The programmatic consumption of the whole SDDC also needs to be considered in a good design document.

Before starting creating a design or even deploying the...