Hamburger V. Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

Packt Publishing, 2017. — 350 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78646-437-8.VMware offers the best-in-class 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.What you will learn
Understand and optimize end to end processes in your data center
Translate IT processes and business needs into a technical design
Apply and create vRO workflow automation functionalities to services
Deploy NSX in a virtual environment
Technically accomplish DevOps offerings
Setup and use vROPs to master the SDDC resource demands
Troubleshoot all components of SDDCThe Software-Defined Data Center
Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities
VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation
SDDC Design Considerations
VMware vRealize Automation
vRealize Orchestrator
Service Catalog Creation
Network Virtualization using NSX
DevOps Considerations
Capacity Management with vRealize Operations
Troubleshooting and Monitoring
Continuous Improvement