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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283435

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Kundan

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. The Freedom with Cross-Cloud Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services

3. Transforming a Data Center from Silos to Software-Defined Services

4. Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware

5. Implementing Service Redundancy Across All Layers

6. Designing Software-Defined Storage Services

7. VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Services

8. Transforming Your Network Architecture

9. Dealing with Data Sovereignty

10. Designing Effective Compliance Regulations to Fix Violations

11. Lower TCO and Greater ROI with Maximum Agility

12. VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model

13. The Economics of Cross-Cloud Services

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Index

Architecture overview

Let's look at the architecture in detail in the following sections.

Conceptual design

The following figure illustrates the design at a high level for the customer:

Conceptual design (for DC)

Logical design

Software-defined storage logically extends the abilities that exist with compute resources to the storage infrastructure. Rather than using CPU or RAM reservations, limits, and shares, with software-defined storage, the administrator defines policies that are assigned to virtual machines and allows the characteristics of the storage to be defined and changed as business requirements change. Software-designed storage logical design is illustrated here:

Software-defined storage logical design

The software-defined storage architecture design addresses all the functional components of a solution that have an impact on the resulting logical designs in the environment.