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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464378
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Software-Defined Data Center FREE CHAPTER 2. Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities 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

Sample configurations


This section will describe how to configure a blueprint, add it to a service catalog, and make it orderable for users in a given business group. It will cover the following points in greater detail:

  • Creating and preparing a template in vCenter to be used for a blueprint
  • Creating a network pool to be used with a pre-existing VLAN
  • Creating a set of properties to be used with the blueprint
  • Creating an IaaS blueprint for a VM
  • Publishing the service for a given business group (entitlements)

Template preparation in vCenter

Before the blueprint can rely on the template, a few things have to be checked in vCenter in order to make it a successful and straightforward deployment. Here is a list of things which should be considered for the template:

  • The most recent VMware tools should be installed in the template
  • The vRA Guest Agent should be installed successfully in the template
  • If it is a Windows template, it should NOT be part of a domain (only a workgroup)
  • For Windows or Linux VMs, there...
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