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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

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Published in Dec 2016

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ISBN-13 9781786464378

Pages 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Valentin Hamburger

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

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Preface

1. The Software-Defined Data Center

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

vRealize Operations Manager

In the VMware suite of products necessary for a Software Defined Data Center, these tools are actually a must. vRealize Operations is covered in Chapter 10, Capacity Management with vRealize Operations when it came to capacity monitoring. But actually, it can deliver so much more including performance analytic, anomaly detection as well as relational mapping of items. It is also capable of modeling KPIs, and it creates super metrics (metrics consistent out of many others to deliver a single baseline) To complete the set of supporting tools, vRealize Log Insight for log management and analytics makes a perfect add-on to the monitoring toolset. It can handle a very high amount of logs and make them searchable in a quick and easy way. It features the creation of custom log dashboards as well as nice precreated vendor adapters.

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Authors (1)

Valentin 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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