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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

You're reading from Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers Make the most of software-defined data centers with revolutionary VMware technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786464378

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Hamburger

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

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Preface

1. The Software-Defined Data Center

2. Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities FREE CHAPTER

3. VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation

4. SDDC Design Considerations

5. VMware vRealize Automation

6. vRealize Orchestrator

7. Service Catalog Creation

8. Network Virtualization using NSX

9. DevOps Considerations

10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations

11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring

12. Continuous Improvement

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the main principles of automation and standardization. Also, the differences of workflows and scripts have been highlighted. Finally, two examples have been described to give a better insight how automation and standardization might be applied in a real-world use case.

In the next chapter, we discuss the foundation of the SDDC which is built on VMware vSphere. It will be much more technical and provide a detailed description of useful vSphere features and functionalities fit for the SDDC. We will also recap some vSphere automation basics round workload deployment, storage management, and management best practices.

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Authors (1)

Hamburger

Hamburger

Valentin Hamburger was working at VMware for more than seven years. In his former role, he was a lead consulting architect and took care of the delivery and architecture of cloud projects in central EMEA. In his current role, he is EMEA solutions lead for VMware at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Furthermore he works as an advisor with HDS engineering on the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, which is based on VMware vRealize technology. He holds many industry certifications in various areas such as VMware, Linux, and IBM Power compute environments. He serves as a partner and trusted advisor to HDS customers primarily in EMEA. His main responsibilities are ensuring that HDS's future innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer challenges to opportunities focused on virtualization topics. Valentin enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at national and international conferences such as VMworld.

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