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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 

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Automate and orchestrate your Software-DefinedData Center on AWS

Ajit Pratap Kundan

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

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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 with cross-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 certified professional

VMware-I currently reside in New Delhi, VMware-India with my wife and two boys VMware-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.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

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Preface

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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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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 overvie w

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 c onsumed

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 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

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 traffi c

PAN security – integrating NSX with Palo Alto Application modeling for micro-segmentation – protecting your a pps 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

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 su pport

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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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture is the most trusted platform, not only fornew applications, but also for existing legacy applications This book willintroduce you to tried and tested cloud design and deployment methodologies

to help you achieve your business objectives and overcome all of the

challenges faced by traditional data centers Cloud Foundation and vRealizeSuite will help you to set up and integrate private clouds with public cloudssuch as AWS and IBM Soft Layer

Who this book is for

This book is intended for those planning, designing, and implementing thevirtualization components of the SDDC foundational infrastructure Theintended audience is core technical teams, including those responsible forproduct development, servers, storage, networking, security, and backup andrecovery It is assumed that the reader has knowledge of and familiarity withvirtualization concepts and related topics (including storage and networking)

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 cloud benefits that canhelp you to overcome traditional or multi-cloud challenges with Cross CloudArchitecture

Chapter 2, Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services, makes

use of VMware Cloud Foundation deployment to achieve a unified defined data center (SDDC) platform for the hybrid cloud, that is based on

software-VMware compute, storage, and network virtualization, a natively integratedsoftware stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment orrun as a service from the public cloud with consistent, simple operations byintegrating it with VMware vRealize Suite, VMware Horizon, and VMwareIntegrated 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 control along with business valuesfrom 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 Fault Tolerance 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 designand configuration) in detail and also helps you to design correctly with bestpractices to follow for specific use cases and the orchestration of all cloudcomponents

Chapter 8, Transforming Your Network Architecture, provides examples ofcreating, provisioning, and managing networks in a software-defined wayusing the underlying physical network as a simple 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 to secure data at all stages ofthe cloud journey This chapter also shows you how to ensure that data

backup and secondary data centers 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 sharedresponsibility between 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 to lower the capital and operationalexpenditure, achieving maximum ROI

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

discusses VMware Cloud Foundation pricing and licensing as well as otherVMware Cloud component licensing models

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

different cost categories and compares competitive existing solutions on themarket

To get the most out of this book

This book is intended for administrators with different levels of server,

storage, and networking experience:

All administrators can learn network design and storage scaling to

manage and monitor hosts in the vSphere environment

Experienced VMware administrators can learn about private/hybridcloud design and deployment in different scenarios They can customizetheir designs as per customer requirements

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The Freedom with Cross-Cloud

Architecture

This chapter briefs you on cloud service architectures The chapter includesthe 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 basicapplication hosting and DevOps environment with VMware components aftergoing through this book You will be able to install and configure all thebuilding blocks to get the benefits of VMware 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 market segment,including financial services, healthcare, retail, education, and government.The world is being redefined by software and data, creating new priorities forevery business, and new imperatives for every IT organization IT has to beagile enough to drive 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 to public clouds to boostinnovation, agility, and cost savings

IT is playing a key role in business growth IT organizations work as strategicpartners, and business leaders are seeking better alignment with their

technical teams as they evaluate go-to-market strategies and important

decisions, such as mergers and acquisitions

Organizations expect their technical teams to support them with a modern ITenvironment that helps them accelerate innovation and agility, so they cancompete with new services and applications that will help them to grow theirbusiness rapidly IT organizations are expected to help keep costs in line Toaddress 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 for meeting their ITplatform requirements

CapEx pressures: IT teams are under considerable pressure to take

advantage of potential cost savings They are replacing on-premisesinfrastructures with public cloud-based hosting models or services, toincrease 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 leveraging shared

infrastructure and paying only for the resources consumed Many

enterprises are already using hybrid clouds; some mix of private andpublic clouds, for greater flexibility and resilience

Businesses are strongly embracing the cloud for every challenge Enterprisesrecognize the value of public cloud flexibility and agility, but still must

address key challenges to integrate hybrid cloud solutions into their

operations

Cloud challenges and solutions

We have cloud options, such as a private cloud, different service provideroptions, and large public clouds The best solution is possible without addingcost and complexity The VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture helps you tochoose the cloud that fulfills your business 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 create overhead Youmust avoid these silos and get a unified console to fulfill the requirements ofthe business objective IT organizations are looking for ways to take

advantage of the flexibility and agility that various clouds offer, even thoughmany mission-critical and data-sensitive apps are currently running on-

premises We need to take a close look at how we can migrate applicationsrunning on-premises or in a private cloud to the public cloud, without addingany cost to their existing investments We have to utilize the applicationdesign, 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 publicclouds and services in a secure manner by applying all governance regulatorycompliance You can maintain all on-premises network policies, even

extending your applications across multiple clouds You have all the freedom

to host/publish your applications anywhere and anytime with end-to-endcontrol and compliance

Challenge 2 – managing/integrating across clouds

We want to host our applications and manage resources in various clouds Asorganizations invest in multiple clouds, they are also creating more complex,siloed environments that don't have common management tools or enterprise-class security across their cloud infrastructure They may even build newteams to own and operate these different silos, reducing efficiency and

driving up costs 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 to monitor and manageresources, applications, and operations across different clouds This approachprevents you from experiencing cloud 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 with

confidence A single unified management layer with automated processesdelivers a fully customized cloud management platform, which gears upservice delivery, enhances operations, and delivers end-user choice withcontrol and compliance, across heterogeneous, multi-cloud environments

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

The VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture provides freedom for end users andcontrol from a service provider perspective, helping a customer to makehybrid cloud decisions, when running, managing, connecting, and securingall of their applications across any cloud in a common operating

environment

The Cross-Cloud Architecture enables uniform deployment models, securitypolicies, visibility, and governance for all applications running on-premisesand off, irrespective of the underlying cloud or hypervisor

The following architecture consists of SDDC-based VMware Cloud

Foundation with a hyper-converged software solution, a set of VMwareCross-Cloud Services, and the vRealize cloud management platform:

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture