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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

Use DevOps principles to manage the SDDC


Besides the pure developers view of DevOps to run application in the SDDC, there is another point of view worthwhile to cover. The SDDC itself consists of blueprints, which will deploy services. These blueprints are basically software or at least code definitions of infrastructure. In a production environment, it is very common to have a development SDDC and a production SDDC. Once new services pass all test and quality assurance criteria in the development SDDC, they can be transformed to the production environment. However, this task had to be done manually in the past or by the use of complex command-line tools without the ability to version control or roll back in case of an error.

This is quite close to what developers do in software and why DevOps is so popular. They simply want to be able to quickly reapply an updated version of their software. The same principle comes true for blueprints; it would be very handy to develop a simple blueprint...