This also includes the plan and design of public clouds and connectivity to an existing vSphere production environment leveraging vCloud Hybrid Manager.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- The Freedom with Cross-Cloud Architecture
- Scaling your business with Cross-Cloud Architecture
- Top IT drivers for integrating public clouds
- Cloud challenges and solutions
- VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture
- Secure connectivity across clouds
- The backbone of a private cloud
- Extending services to public clouds
- Cloud solutions supporting business objectives
- VMware – a partner for every cloud
- Summary
- Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services
- Architecture overview
- Workload domains
- Hardware architecture – rack architecture
- Storage architecture (software-defined storage)
- Network architecture (network virtualization or software-defined network)
- VMware Cloud Foundation software design
- Summary
- Transforming a Data Center from Silos to Software-Defined Services
- Need for VMware in data center transformation
- Business requirements of customers
- Interoperability and integration
- Integrated architecture design model for private and public clouds
- Integrated architecture design for virtual machines and applications
- Introduction to DevOps and its benefits
- SDDC object life cycle
- Summary
- Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware
- Core elements of VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture
- VMware Cloud on AWS
- Managing AWS with vCenter
- VM migration to Amazon EC2 with AWS Connector for vCenter
- VMware Cross-Cloud Model with IBM Cloud
- Prerequisites
- Components/services used in this architecture
- VMware Cloud services architecture on SoftLayer
- Physical operational model
- Logical operational model
- Cluster (compute, storage, and network) architecture
- Physical network provided by SoftLayer
- Physical storage
- Storage virtualization
- Virtual infrastructure
- Network virtualization
- Infrastructure management
- Common services
- Cloud management services
- Operational services
- Business services
- Cloud-based approaches for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions
- Summary
- Implementing Service Redundancy Across All Layers
- vSphere virtualization software
- VMware vCenter Management Server
- vCenter main components
- Environment preparation
- Certificate for the vSphere Web Client and the Log Browser
- Verify that the environment is working properly
- Comparison of the vCenter deployment topologies
- vSphere HA/redundancy features
- vSphere HA
- vSphere Fault Tolerance
- VM Component Protection (VMCP)
- vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC)
- vSphere Replication
- vCenter Watchdog
- vCenter database clustering
- Memory reservations
- Maximizing memory performance
- CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits
- Virtual machine disks
- Virtual SCSI HBA type
- Virtual NICs
- Virtual GPUs
- VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Guest operating system considerations
- VMware Tools
- Templates
- Snapshot management
- Virtual machine security considerations
- Encryption and security certificates
- Monitoring and management design practices
- Time synchronization
- Syslog logging
- Performance monitoring
- VM-to-VM affinity rules
- Backup and recovery - embedded deployment model
- Migration architecture design
- Migration scheduling
- Migration execution
- Migration validation
- Customer business objectives
- Migrated virtual machine framework
- IaaS migration portal logical design
- VMware CMP physical design
- Pre-migration activities
- P2V migration options
- V2V migration options
- Timing estimate (P2V/V2V timing)
- Post-migration activities
- Summary
- vSphere virtualization software
- Designing Software-Defined Storage Services
- Software-defined storage overview
- Architecture overview
- Product documentation and tools
- Summary
- VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Services
- VMware Cloud (SDDC) assessment, design, and deploy service solution overview
- Logical design
- Integration with different cloud components
- VMware vRealize Business Manager
- Conceptual design
- vRealize Business Standard architecture
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager
- Integration between vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Automation
- Application release automation with Zero Touch Deployment
- Summary
- Transforming Your Network Architecture
- Assumptions, risks, constraints, and use cases
- Design guidelines
- Micro-segmentation conceptual design
- Network virtualization logical design
- Network virtualization platform management
- NSX for vSphere port and protocol requirements
- Reference documents
- Summary
- Dealing with Data Sovereignty
- Security
- Encryption and security certificates
- Virtual network security considerations
- Securing iSCSI storage connectivity
- Securing NFS storage connectivity
- Virtual machine security considerations
- Micro-segmentation – how to define security on east-west traffic
- PAN security – integrating NSX with Palo Alto
- Application modeling for micro-segmentation – protecting your apps from east-west traffic in a data center
- VMware vRealize Configuration Manager architecture design
- Summary
- Designing Effective Compliance Regulations to Fix Violations
- Lower TCO and Greater ROI with Maximum Agility
- Operational readiness for the cloud
- Contrasting approaches to building a private cloud
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- A traditional 3-tier architecture-based private cloud
- Cost comparison methodology and approach
- Hardware and software cost analysis
- Comparing the key technical capabilities and business benefits
- Comparison of the key technical and business value attributes
- OpEx costs savings analysis
- Summary
- VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model
- The Economics of Cross-Cloud Services
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