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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786464378

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Valentin Hamburger

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

PaaS as part of DevOps

PaaS is the most confusing term in an SDDC since different people refer to it for different descriptions and different parts of the SDDC. Basically, it can be broken down into the following two major meanings:

Installing one or multiple VMs and putting software on top of it, ready for consumption.
Providing a platform ready for developers to deploy applications into. This platform will provide several spaces or tenants such as development, quality assurance, and production. All the developer will need is an access and its application to upload.

This chapter is about DevOps, and this term is not set in stone and can describe different implementations or functionality of SDDC services. The first part discussed containers as cornerstone of DevOps. Often, this is also the first thought of any developer when it comes to application delivery automation. However, there are other implementations available, which will deliver even more flexibility and ease of use than a naked...

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Authors (1)

Hamburger

Hamburger

Valentin Hamburger was working at VMware for more than seven years. In his former role, he was a lead consulting architect and took care of the delivery and architecture of cloud projects in central EMEA. In his current role, he is EMEA solutions lead for VMware at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Furthermore he works as an advisor with HDS engineering on the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, which is based on VMware vRealize technology. He holds many industry certifications in various areas such as VMware, Linux, and IBM Power compute environments. He serves as a partner and trusted advisor to HDS customers primarily in EMEA. His main responsibilities are ensuring that HDS's future innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer challenges to opportunities focused on virtualization topics. Valentin enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at national and international conferences such as VMworld.

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