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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Summary

This chapter described DevOps in general. Its purpose and what differences it might bring to an SDDC. The general meaning and purpose of DevOps was discussed in order to understand that this way of creating applications requires different approaches. It also listed several approaches to run cloud-native applications and listed ways to further automate their release and tests. Also, it listed tools to integrate in vRA in order to be able to provide the best of both worlds for DevOps as well for the classic legacy IT application. Finally, it highlighted a way of applying the DevOps principle to the SDDC service development, in order to leverage its agility and flexibility for the creation and distribution of infrastructure blueprints.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on capacity management in an SDDC. It will highlight why it is important to do predictive capacity planning as well as which tool in the VMware family can be used to further provide this functionality. Also, it will...

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