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About the author

Ajit Pratap Kundan is an infrastructure software consultant with

18 years' experience, having has worked with Novell, Redington,PCS, and Innodata Currently, he is a technical consultant at

VMware, Delhi and provides productive solutions for Federal

Government clients, espousing the benefits of hybrid cloud withcross-cloud services He has a graduate degree in electronics

engineering from Pune University with experience in Lotus, Tivoli,PlateSpin, IDM, SUSE Linux, Sentinel, and all of the VMware

products He is an ITIL, CCNA, Lotus, SUSE, Red Hat, and

VMware-certified professional

I currently reside in New Delhi, India with my wife and two boys I would like to thank

my wife for putting up with my late-night writing sessions I also give deep thanks and gratitude to my colleagues for their guidance and suggestions.

About the reviewer

Daniel Jonathan Valik is an industry expert in unified

communications and collaboration technologies, cloud computing,and Platform as a Service (PaaS) He has worked for large softwarecompanies and start-ups in Europe, Asia (APAC), and the US He isthe founder of Hanako Consulting LLC—a strategy, product

marketing, and management consulting company He has strongexpertise in areas such as IoT, DevOps, Automation, Microservices,Containerization, Virtualization, Cloud-Native Applications,

Artificial Intelligence, and Contact Center Technologies

What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Freedom with Cross-Cloud Architecture, introduces

different types of clouds, where we will learn about all of the cloudbenefits that can help you to overcome traditional or multi-cloudchallenges with Cross Cloud Architecture

Chapter 2, Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud

Services, makes use of VMware Cloud Foundation deployment to

achieve a unified software-defined data center (SDDC)

platform for the hybrid cloud, that is based on VMware compute,storage, and network virtualization, a natively integrated softwarestack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment orrun as a service from the public cloud with consistent, simple

operations by integrating it with VMware vRealize Suite, VMwareHorizon, and VMware Integrated OpenStack to deliver a

comprehensive SDDC platform

Chapter 3, Transforming a Data Center from Silos to

Software-Defined Services, explains how to host applications in the cloud

world to provide administrators with flexibility and best controlalong with business values from Cross Cloud Architecture

Chapter 4, Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware, combines a

best-in-class private cloud with leading public clouds, all powered

by the ever-reliable and most flexible hybrid cloud platform offered

by VMware

Chapter 5, Implementing Service Redundancy Across All Layers, talks

about different vCenter Server deployment topologies with

redundant operations, and all of the High availability

functionalities of vSphere, such as vMotion, and different FaultTolerance options comparing their strengths and weaknesses

Chapter 6, Designing Software-Defined Storage Services, discusses

how to design and scale a software defined storage service and

deep dives into reference deployment scenarios of VMware vSAN

Chapter 7, VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Service,

discusses the technical analysis of all VMware Cloud components(including their design and configuration) in detail and also helpsyou to design correctly with best practices to follow for specific usecases and the orchestration of all cloud components

Chapter 8, Transforming Your Network Architecture, provides

examples of creating, provisioning, and managing networks in asoftware-defined way using the underlying physical network as asimple packet forwarding backplane, and also explains how to

migrate from legacy network architectures to new network

virtualization techniques

Chapter 9, Dealing with Data Sovereignty, explains sovereignty

compliance strategies and how to use an encryption solution tosecure data at all stages of the cloud journey This chapter alsoshows you how to ensure that data backup and secondary datacenters for data recovery/disaster recovery purposes remain local

Chapter 10, Designing Effective Compliance Regulations to Fix

Violations, explains design compliance regulations for multiple

purposes by aligning line of business divisions with the best

technology, such as VMware, to be compliant in this versatile

market Security and compliance must be a shared responsibilitybetween IT and its cloud service provider

Chapter 11, Lower TCO and Greater ROI with Maximum Agility,

explains that, in order to achieve the goal of cloud, we need to

extend virtualization techniques across the entire data center tolower the capital and operational expenditure, achieving maximumROI

Chapter 12, VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model,

discusses VMware Cloud Foundation pricing and licensing as well

as other VMware Cloud component licensing models

Chapter 13, The Economics of Cross-Cloud Services, explains a cost

analysis of different cost categories and compares competitiveexisting solutions on the market

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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1 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 complianc

e 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

2 Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services

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

3 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 securit y

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

4 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

Network virtualization components

Distributed virtual switches

Network I/O control details

Network virtualization services

Monitoring Log consolidation and analysis Patching

Business services Business management

IT financials

IT benchmarking Cloud-based approaches for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution s

Summary

5 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

6 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

Host memory requirements

Host CPU overhead

Hardware design decisions

Network design

vSAN network port group

Network speed requirements

Type of virtual switch

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

7 VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Services

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

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

8 Transforming Your Network Architecture

Assumptions, risks, constraints, and use cases

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 dat a

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

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 traff ic

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

10 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

11 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 s upport

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

12 VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model

Transforming a data center with Cloud Foundation

VMware pricing and licensing in AWS Cloud

Summary

13 The Economics of Cross-Cloud Services

Total cost of ownership with cost categories

Summary

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objectives and overcome all of the challenges faced by traditionaldata centers Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite will help you toset up and integrate private clouds with public clouds such as AWSand IBM Soft Layer

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The Freedom with

Cross-Cloud Architecture

This chapter briefs you on cloud service architectures The chapterincludes the following sections:

Cloud benefits and challenges

VMware solutions to overcome different cloud challenges

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Overview of private, public, and hybrid clouds

Overview of vCloud Air, AWS, and the IBM Cloud

Readers will be able to design elastic IT infra capabilities and set up

a basic application hosting and DevOps environment with VMwarecomponents after going through this book You will be able to

install and configure all the building blocks to get the benefits ofVMware SDDC components in an on-premises private cloud, a

public cloud such as IBM or AWS, or a mix of both—a hybrid cloud

Scaling your business with

Cross-Cloud Architecture

Digital transformation is taking place in each and every marketsegment, including financial services, healthcare, retail, education,and government The world is being redefined by software anddata, creating new priorities for every business, and new

imperatives for every IT organization IT has to be agile enough todrive growth and extend the capabilities and services that they

deliver to lines of business (LOBs) IT organizations have to

transform their legacy setup and extend their IT environments topublic clouds to boost innovation, agility, and cost savings

IT is playing a key role in business growth IT organizations work

as strategic partners, and business leaders are seeking better

alignment with their technical teams as they evaluate go-to-marketstrategies and important decisions, such as mergers and

acquisitions

Organizations expect their technical teams to support them with amodern IT environment that helps them accelerate innovation andagility, so they can compete with new services and applications thatwill help them to grow their business rapidly IT organizations areexpected to help keep costs in line To address these expectations,

IT teams are embracing public cloud solutions

Top IT drivers for

integrating public clouds

IT leaders cite three primary drivers for integrating public clouds:

Disruptive approach: In today's disrupted, accelerated,

app-centric marketplace, speeding up time-to-market is critical;LOBs and developers see public clouds as the fastest option formeeting their IT platform requirements

CapEx pressures: IT teams are under considerable pressure

to take advantage of potential cost savings They are replacingon-premises infrastructures with public cloud-based hostingmodels or services, to increase capacity while reducing

operational efforts and costs According to a Gartner research

director, "Customers are saving 14 percent of their budgets because of public cloud adoption, which subsequently grow public cloud businesses."

A cloud-first strategy: Most senior leadership mandates a

cloud-first strategy to drive reduced time to value by leveragingshared infrastructure and paying only for the resources

consumed Many enterprises are already using hybrid clouds;some mix of private and public clouds, for greater flexibilityand resilience

Businesses are strongly embracing the cloud for every challenge.Enterprises recognize the value of public cloud flexibility and

agility, but still must address key challenges to integrate hybridcloud solutions into their operations

Cloud challenges and

solutions

We have cloud options, such as a private cloud, different serviceprovider options, and large public clouds The best solution ispossible without adding cost and complexity The VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture helps you to choose the cloud that fulfills yourbusiness objective

Challenge 1 – connection and security with full compliance and control

We have to manage incompatibility between different cloud models

or service providers, otherwise it will create new silos and createoverhead You must avoid these silos and get a unified console tofulfill the requirements of the business objective IT organizationsare looking for ways to take advantage of the flexibility and agilitythat various clouds offer, even though many mission-critical anddata-sensitive apps are currently running on-premises We need totake a close look at how we can migrate applications running on-premises or in a private cloud to the public cloud, without addingany cost to their existing investments We have to utilize the

application design, SDLC processes, and maintain security and

compliance best practices

Solution: VMware overcomes this issue by extending a network to

public clouds through a network virtualization technique It

interacts with public clouds and services in a secure manner byapplying all governance regulatory compliance You can maintainall on-premises network policies, even extending your applicationsacross multiple clouds You have all the freedom to host/publishyour applications anywhere and anytime with end-to-end controland compliance

Challenge 2 –

managing/integrating across clouds

We want to host our applications and manage resources in variousclouds As organizations invest in multiple clouds, they are alsocreating more complex, siloed environments that don't have

common management tools or enterprise-class security across

their cloud infrastructure They may even build new teams to ownand operate these different silos, reducing efficiency and driving upcosts Customers are looking for a solution that can help them tomanage mixed clouds from a single console

Solution: VMware will give you the holistic view from a single

console of the entire infrastructure, and also management tools tomonitor and manage resources, applications, and operations acrossdifferent clouds This approach prevents you from experiencingcloud vendor lock-in, monitoring operations, and managing specific

service-level agreements (SLAs) You have holistic

management and your end users can connect to public clouds withconfidence A single unified management layer with automatedprocesses delivers a fully customized cloud management platform,which gears up service delivery, enhances operations, and deliversend-user choice with control and compliance, across

heterogeneous, multi-cloud environments

VMware Cross-Cloud

Architecture

The VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture provides freedom for endusers and control from a service provider perspective, helping acustomer to make hybrid cloud decisions, when running,

managing, connecting, and securing all of their applications acrossany cloud in a common operating environment

The Cross-Cloud Architecture enables uniform deployment models,security policies, visibility, and governance for all applications

running on-premises and off, irrespective of the underlying cloud

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture