VMware private cloud computing with vCloud Director / Simon Gallagher with Aidan Dalgleish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Simon.

Contributor:

Dalgleish, Aidan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware vSphere.

Virtual computer systems.

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Sybex, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

It's All About Delivering Service with vCloud Director Empowered by virtualization, companies are not just moving into the cloud, they're moving into private clouds for greater security, flexibility, and cost savings. However, this move involves more than just infrastructure. It also represents a different business model and a new way to provide services. In this detailed book, VMware vExpert Simon Gallagher makes sense of private cloud computing for IT administrators. From basic cloud theory and strategies for adoption to practical implementation, he covers all the issues. You

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part I Private Cloud Foundations; Chapter 1 What Makes a Private Cloud?; Understanding the Great Abstraction Layer; Abstraction and Cloud Computing; Virtualization and Cloud Computing; Defining Cloud Computing; On-Demand Self-Service; Broad Network Access; Resource Pooling; Rapid Elasticity; Measured Service; Is Virtualization Cloud Computing?; Are Traditional Services Cloud Computing?; Understanding Services and Delivery Models; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); Software as a Service (SaaS); Public Cloud; Private Cloud

Hybrid CloudCommunity Cloud; Summary; Chapter 2 Developing Your Strategy; Developing Your Strategy; Buy or Build?; Deciding to Buy; Service Level Agreement; Service Credits; Disaster Recovery; Cost Structure; Deciding to Build; Greenfield or Reengineer?; Hardware Platform; Datacenter Facilities; Virtual or Physical Servers; Application Stack Considerations; Design for Failure; Scale-Out Elasticity; Framework (PaaS); Gathering Requirements; Documenting Requirements; Define Use Cases; Who Are Your Users?; What Do They Do?; What Would They Like to Do?; Executive Sponsorship

Dealing with "the Directive""The Pitch": Into the Dragon's Den; Explaining the Current State of Your Organization; Proposing Your Solution; Presenting the Numbers; How Long, Who, and When?; Case Study; Cost Breakdown; Logical Diagrams; Overcoming Hurdles; Cloud? Our Auditors Will Go Nuts!; But Amazon Will Sell Me This for Like 1 a Day; Life Cycle; Inception; Feasibility; Development; Emerging Service; Established Service; Deprecated Service; Decommissioned Service; Building the Right Team; Product/Portfolio Manager; Change Manager; Capacity Manager; Commercial Manager; Operations Manager

Relationship ManagerSummary; Chapter 3 Introducing VMware vCloud Director; Heriarchical Management; Understanding How vCloud Director Works; Exploring the Interfaces; Exploring vCloud Director's Core Components; Cell Servers; Database; vCenter; vCloud Networking and Security Services; vCNS Manager; Chargeback Manager; Application Programming Interface; Virtual Datacenter Objects; Organization; Provider Virtual Data Center; Organization Virtual Data Center; Catalog; vApp; vCloud Networking; vCloud Network Isolation (VCNI); Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN); Network Pools

vCloud Director NetworksSummary; Part II Designing Your Cloud Service; Chapter 4 Defining the Service Catalog; From Stability to Dynamic Change; Understanding the Service Catalog; Existing Standard Builds; Sharing Service Catalogs; The vApp; Examples of vApp Use Cases; Self-Contained LAMP Stack; Production SQL Server; Test SQL Server; Isolated Server Sandbox; Clone of Production Application Stack; Operating System Templates; Media Files; What Is Your Current Environment?; Active Directory; Backup/Restore; IP Addressing; Management Agents and Firewalling; Legacy System Dependencies

Security Considerations

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118240304

1118240308

9781118227367

1118227360

OCLC:

851190345