VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture电子书

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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

IBM Cloud for VMware solutions

Conceptual view

Logical view

Deployment view

Summary

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

Workload domains

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary

Designing Software-Defined Storage Services

Software-defined storage overview

Purpose and applicability to the SDDC solution

Business requirements

Requirements and dependencies

Architecture overview

Conceptual design

Logical 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

Multicast requirements

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

Datastore sizing

Virtual SAN TCO and Sizing Calculator

vSAN cluster and datastore design decisions

vSAN design assumptions

vSAN policy design

Application demand assessment

Policy design decisions

vSAN monitoring design

General monitoring practices

Virtual SAN Health Check Plug-in

Virtual SAN Observer

vRealize Operations Manager monitoring

Monitoring design

Scalability limits of vSAN

Product documentation and tools

VMware product documentation

Supporting documentation

Tools

Summary

VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Services

VMware Cloud (SDDC) assessment, design, and deploy service solution overview

Virtualization conceptual design

Logical design

Virtualization logical design

Cloud tenant design

Comparison of single tenant and multi-tenant deployments

Single tenant deployment

Multitenant deployment

Cloud automation IaaS design

vSphere infrastructure

Infrastructure source endpoints

vRealize Operations Manager

Application architecture overview

vRealize Infrastructure Navigator

Application architecture overview

Security

Authentication

Communication

Licensing

vRealize Hyperic

Application architecture overview

vRealize Log Insight

Application architecture overview

Deployment architecture

Scalability

Security and authentication

Communication

Integration with different cloud components

vSphere integration

vRealize Operations Manager integration

VMware vRealize Business Manager

Conceptual design

vRealize Business Standard architecture

Data collection service

Data Transformation Service

FactsRepo inventory service

Server

Reference database

External interfaces

vRealize Business Standard appliance role

Supported product integrations

VMware vSphere

VMware vCloud Director

VMware vRealize Business Advanced and Enterprise

VMware vRealize Operations Manager

VMware vRealize Automation

Integrating vRealize Business with public clouds

Solution logical design

Service orientation principle

VMware vRealize Operations Manager

Business scenario

Interoperability requirements

Integration with vRealize Operations Manager

Integration between vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Automation

Business objective

Integration requirements

Credentials

Firewall rules

Specific configuration with specific objects to be created and consumed

Application release automation with Zero Touch Deployment

Summary

Transforming Your Network Architecture

Assumptions, risks, constraints, and use cases

Design guidelines

Networking and distributed firewalling best practices

Network virtualization

NSX for vSphere components

NSX for vSphere platform

NSX Manager

Distributed firewall

Service composer

NSX for vSphere system requirements

Micro-segmentation conceptual design

Network virtualization logical design

NSX for vSphere component placement

High Availability of NSX for vSphere components

Scalability of NSX for vSphere Components

Firewall logical design

Distributed firewall

Security groups and policies

NSX Manager design

Network virtualization platform management

Consumption layer

NSX for vSphere logging environment

NSX for vSphere management layer

NSX for vSphere deployed components

Distributed firewall logs

Distributed firewall monitoring

Backup and recovery – backing up the NSX Manager data

Backing up the vSphere Distributed Switch

Monitoring and troubleshooting

Flow monitoring

Activity monitoring

vSphere Distributed Switch monitoring

Port mirroring

vSphere Distributed Switch alerts

vSphere Distributed Switch network health check

SNMP

NetFlow/Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX)

Performance and scalability

Scalability considerations

VXLAN

MTU on the transport network

NSX Controller

IGMP usage

Hybrid mode

Brownfield migration

Migration inside the same hardware infrastructure

Migration to a new hardware infrastructure

NSX for vSphere port and protocol requirements

Reference documents

Summary

Dealing with Data Sovereignty

Security

Securing ESXi hosts

Lockdown mode

Securing vCenter Server

Encryption and security certificates

Virtual network security considerations

Network firewalls and vCenter Server

Securing virtual machines with vLANs

Securing virtual switch ports

Securing iSCSI storage connectivity

Securing NFS storage connectivity

Virtual machine security considerations

Security design decisions

Micro-segmentation – how to define security on east-west traffic

PAN security – integrating NSX with Palo Alto

Application modeling for micro-segmentation – protecting your apps from east-west traffic in a data center

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager architecture design

Backup and restore

General use cases of customers

vRealize Configuration Manager logical architecture overview

VCM platform

Summary

Designing Effective Compliance Regulations to Fix Violations

Best practices to follow for compliance regulations

Data collection

Data analysis

Report generation and data integration

Standard use cases

Network virtualization

NSX Edge Gateway Firewall and Trust Groups

VMware vCloud Hybrid Manager

Phase 1 – Planning

Phase 2 – Kickoff

Phase 3 – Solution overview

Phase 4 – Assess

Phase 5 – Design

Conceptual design

Logical design

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager platform

vRealize Configuration Manager guest OS compliance

Summary

Lower TCO and Greater ROI with Maximum Agility

Operational readiness for the cloud

Phase 1 – Cost Center

Phase 2 – Service Provider

Phase 3 – Business Partner

Contrasting approaches to building a private cloud

VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure management

A traditional 3-tier architecture-based private cloud

Cost comparison methodology and approach

Hardware and software cost analysis

Cost comparison results - upfront costs for hardware, software, and support

Comparing the key technical capabilities and business benefits

Integrated provisioning and life-cycle management

Support experience

Comparison of the key technical and business value attributes

OpEx costs savings analysis

Virtualization First Policy

Summary

VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model

Transforming a data center with Cloud Foundation

VMware pricing and licensing in AWS Cloud

Summary

The Economics of Cross-Cloud Services

Total cost of ownership with cost categories

Summary

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