VMware cross-cloud architecture : automate and orchestrate your software-defined data center on AWS / Ajit Pratap Kundan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kundan, Ajit Pratap, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon Web Services (Firm).

VMware.

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Enhance your virtualization skills by mastering storage and network virtualization with automation across different Clouds About This Book Migrate and build your applications in Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cross Cloud components and services Gain in-depth configuration insights of VMware Cross Cloud architecture Learn to migrate applications from VMware to AWS and IBM Cloud Who This Book Is For This book is for administrators, Cloud architects and network engineers who want to globalize their infrastructure using VMware and AWS services. An initial setup of workloads and data center is beneficial. What You Will Learn Install and configure the Cloud foundation with Cross-Cloud services Configure vSphere high availability with the vCenter redundancy setup Architect and configure VMware with AWS Cloud Deploy VMware components in IBM Soft Layer Extend your DR setup with VMware to consume DRaaS Design and configure software-defined networking Implement compliance regulations to fix violations In Detail Over the past two decades, VMware vSphere has been known as the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform. VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture shows you how to design and configure Cross Cloud Architecture by using VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite with various use cases across private, public, and hybrid Cloud. This book takes you through everything from a basic understanding of virtualization to advanced aspects of storage and network virtualization, clustering, automation, and management. This book will be your guide to designing all aspects of Cloud. We start with the challenges faced by a traditional data center, define problem statements for you, and then brief you on respective solutions. Moving on, all kinds of virtualization and Cloud offerings from AWS and IBM Soft Layer are introduced and discussed in detail. Then, you'll learn how to design IT infrastructures for new and existing applications with a combination of Cloud Foundation, vRealize Suite, and vSphere enabled with VSAN and NSX. Furthermore, you'll learn how to design and configure high availability, disaster recovery, and apply an appropriate compliance matrix. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to calculate the TCO/ROI, along with the VMware products packaging and licensing in detail. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach which will help you to have a better understanding of the cloud technology and the steps required to qui...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Freedom with Cross-Cloud Architecture

Scaling your business with Cross-Cloud Architecture

Top IT drivers for integrating public clouds

Cloud challenges and solutions

Challenge 1 - connection and security with full compliance and control

Challenge 2 - managing/integrating across clouds

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Secure connectivity across clouds

The backbone of a private cloud

Extending services to public clouds

Multi-cloud/mixed cloud use cases

Cloud solutions supporting business objectives

Modernizing your data center

VMware hybrid clouds

VMware - a partner for every cloud

VMware vCloud Air

AWS hybrid cloud

IBM Cloud for VMware solutions

Solution features

Reference architecture

Conceptual view

Logical view

Deployment view

Summary

Chapter 2: Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services

Architecture overview

Seamless integration of software-defined services

Automating IT infrastructure

Policy-based resource containers

Automating manual and repetitive tasks

Unified Management Console

Scalability and performance

Workload domains

Management workload domain

VDI workload domains

Hardware architecture - rack architecture

Rack hardware

Rack sizing

Rack wiring

Storage architecture (software-defined storage)

vSAN storage policies

Network architecture (network virtualization or software-defined network)

Logical network design

VMware Cloud Foundation software design

SDDC Manager

Physical Resource Manager

Logical Resource Manager

LRM Controller

LRM logical resources and LRM services

Hardware Management Service (HMS).

Lifecycle management

vSphere products

NSX

vRealize products

vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Log Insight

vRealize Automation, VMware vRealize Business, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator

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

Need for VMware in data center transformation

Business requirements of customers

Interoperability and integration

Logical design

Orchestrator topology choice

Orchestrator server mode choice

vRealize Orchestrator SDDC cluster choice

Integrated architecture design model for private and public clouds

Private cloud integrated architecture design with network and security

Integrated architecture design for virtual machines and applications

Consumption model of network services components

Components and processes for logical switching

vRealize Automation with logical switching consumption overview

Introduction to DevOps and its benefits

Building, deploying, and running services in an innovative way

SDDC object life cycle

vRealize code stream functionality

Automating application release without manual intervention

Advantages of DevOps

Chapter 4: Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware

Core elements of VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture

Cross-Cloud Services

Choosing suitable applications to move in the cloud

VMware Cloud on AWS

Components/technologies used in VMware-AWS partnerships

Migrating your existing applications to AWS

Application migration phases with supporting tools

Migration assessment

Schema conversion

Conversion of embedded SQL and application code

Data migration

Testing converted code

Data replication

Deployment to AWS and Go-Live

Post-deployment monitoring

Managing AWS with vCenter

Managing administrators on the management portal.

Steps for adding an administrator

Steps for removing an administrator

VPCs and subnets management

Steps for creating a VPC and subnets

Steps for deleting a VPC

Security groups management

Steps for creating a security group

Steps for deleting a security group

Environment management in AWS

Steps for creating an environment

Steps for deleting an environment

User permissions management

VM migration to Amazon EC2 with AWS Connector for vCenter

The VM import authorization process

Virtual machine migration process

Backing up the instance

Migrated EC2 instance export process

Troubleshooting migration

Validation of the certificates

VMware Cross-Cloud Model with IBM Cloud

Prerequisites

Components/services used in this architecture

VMware Cloud services architecture on SoftLayer

Physical infrastructure

Physical operational model

Logical operational model

Cluster (compute, storage, and network) architecture

Compute clusters

Management cluster

Edge cluster

Storage cluster

Physical network provided by SoftLayer

Simplicity

Scalability

High bandwidth

Fault-tolerant transport

Physical storage

vSAN

Network File System (NFS)

Storage virtualization

VMware SDS is vSAN

Virtual Machine Disks (VMDK)

Virtual infrastructure

Compute virtualization

Provisioning

Resource scheduling

Availability

Performance

Network virtualization

Network virtualization components

Distributed virtual switches

Network I/O control details

Network virtualization services

Infrastructure management

Compute management

Storage management

Network management

Common services

Identity and access services

DNS

NTP services

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) services

Certificate Authority (CA) services.

Cloud management services

Service catalogue

Self-service portal

Infrastructure and process orchestration

Software orchestration

Operational services

Backup and restore

Disaster recovery

Monitoring

Log consolidation and analysis

Patching

Business services

Business management

IT financials

IT benchmarking

Cloud-based approaches for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions

Chapter 5: 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 vMotion details

EVC feature details

vSphere DRS feature details

VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management

Resource pools feature details

vSphere Fault Tolerance

Relevance of vSphere Fault Tolerance for vCenter HA

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

Multiple virtual disks

Virtual disk location

Swap file location

Virtual SCSI HBA type

Virtual NICs

Virtual GPUs

VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache

Guest operating system considerations

VMware Tools

Templates

Templates and multiple sites

Snapshot management

Virtual machine security considerations

Encryption and security certificates

Monitoring and management design practices

Time synchronization

Syslog logging

Performance monitoring.

Virtual machine backup and restore

VM-to-VM affinity rules

Backup and recovery - embedded deployment model

Backup and recovery - external deployment model

Migration architecture design

Migration process flow

Migration scheduling

Migration execution

Migration validation

Customer business objectives

Migrated virtual machine framework

Responsibility matrix

Design risks

IaaS migration portal logical design

VMware CMP physical design

VMware Converter Linux migration process

VMware Converter agent

Network/security changes

Port requirements

Operational readiness for migration

Pre-migration activities

P2V migration options

Hot clone - full outage

Hot clone - post-synchronisation

V2V migration options

V2V conversion

V2V requirements

CMP migration process

Timing estimate (P2V/V2V timing)

Post-migration activities

Chapter 6: Designing Software-Defined Storage Services

Software-defined storage overview

Purpose and applicability to the SDDC solution

Business requirements

Requirements and dependencies

Conceptual design

Virtual SAN (vSAN)

vSAN design workflow

Design parameters/considerations for vSAN

Hardware considerations

Comparing hybrid and all-flash designs

SSDs

Magnetic hard disk drives

I/O controllers

Host memory requirements

Host CPU overhead

Hardware design decisions

Network design

vSAN network port group

Network speed requirements

Type of virtual switch

Jumbo frames

VLANs

Networking failover, load balancing, and teaming considerations

Network design decisions

vSAN cluster and datastore design

vSAN disk format

Disk groups

Failures to tolerate policy

Fault domains

Hosts per cluster.

Deduplication, compression, and RAID 5/RAID 6 erasure coding.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1031340270