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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamburger, Valentin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Packt Publishing, 2016.
Edición:1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Software-Defined Data Center; The demand for change; Business challenges: The use case; The business view; The IT view; Tools to enable SDDC; The implementation journey; The process category; The process change example in Tom's organization; The people category; The people example in Tom's organization; The technology category; The technology example in Tom's organization; Why are these three topics so important?; Additional possibilities and opportunities.
  • The self-healing data centerThe self-scaling data center; Summary; Chapter 2: Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities; Automation principles; Day two automation; The 80:20 rule; Think big, start small; The efficiency bottleneck; Bringing it all together; Script or workflow; Identifying processes and how to automate them; IT delivery frameworks; What if no CMDB or ticket management is in place; Achieving standardization; Deployment standards; Organization automation examples; Simple VM deployment; The hybrid cloud deployment; The analysis of the hybrid cloud deployment.
  • The better approachSummary; Chapter 3: VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation; Basics and recommendations for vSphere in the SDDC; Distributed Resource Scheduler; Resource pools; Storage DRS; Distributed Virtual Switch; Host Profiles; vSphere configuration considerations; Separate management cluster; Management cluster resource considerations; Separate management VDS; The payload cluster; [The resource pool approach]; The resource pool approach; The cluster approach; Storage Policy Based Management; SPBM definition; Integrated vSphere automation; Best practices and recommendations; Summary.
  • Chapter 4: SDDC Design ConsiderationsThe business use case; The business challenge; The CIO challenge; Constraints, assumptions, and limitations; Constraints; Limits; Assumptions; Scalability and future growth; vRealize Automation; vRealize Code Stream; vRealize Orchestrator; vRealize Operations Manager; vRealize Business; vRealize Log Insight; NSX; Design and relations of SDDC components; Logical overview of the SDDC clusters; Logical overview of the solution components; The vRealize Automation design; Small; Enterprise; Infrastructure design examples; Network; Storage; Compute.
  • Designing the tenantsTenants, business groups, and infrastructure fabrics; What is a tenant?; What is a business group?; What is a fabric group?; What is the infrastructure fabric?; What must be included in the design; What if the vSphere environment is already running?; Summary; Chapter 5: VMware vRealize Automation; vRA installation; First things first; Advanced installation configuration; vRA concepts; vRA's little helper; DEM; The IaaS server; vRealize Orchestrator; The Infrastructure tab; Endpoints; Compute Resources; Reservations; Managed Machines; The Administration tab.