Wolk you through installation of the new VMware vCenter 6.5 appliance, in this tutorial we are covering this areas, Installing appliance, Admin interface, creating folders, datacenters and clusters
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IT organizations have gained significant benefits as a direct result of server virtualization. Server consolidation reduced physical complexity, increased operational efficiency and the ability to dynamically re-purpose underlying resources to quickly and optimally meet the needs of increasingly dynamic business applications.
VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is now extending virtualization technologies across the entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform, is a key product in the SDDC architecture. With NSX, virtualization delivers for networking what it has already delivered for compute and storage
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Arista Networks was founded to deliver software defined cloud networking solutions for large data center and high-performance computing environments.
Consolidation of what was traditionally three-tier Core/Aggregation/Access designs into two-tier Spine/Leaf designs; fewer tiers decrease cost, complexity, cabling and power/heat.
Private cloud is a computing model that uses resources which are dedicated to your organization/department. A private cloud shares many of the characteristics of public cloud computing including resource pooling, self-service, elasticity.
I will walk you through the steps for configuring the System Center VMM and Create Microsoft private cloud.
Citrix XenCenter is the Windows-native graphical user interface for managing Citrix XenServer.
let’s install and manage XenCenter and then configure network and create a VM’s
You should have a central storage like SAN in order to play with the VMware advance feature like HA, vMotion, FT…Etc, but that is not always possible for Lab or evaluation.
In my previous posts, I showed you how to install and setup HPLeftHand P4000 on ESX and provide a shared storage for VMware.
In this blog I will show you how to use Microsoft windows 2012 ISCSI solution as a shared storage for VMware.
I will not walk you through the step to setup iSCSI Target; if you are interested in step-by-step iSCSI Target setup take a look in to Microsoft iSCSI Solution.
What is a vSphere 6 Distributed switch and distributed port group?
A vSphere Distributed Switch acts as a single virtual switch across all associated hosts. This allows virtual machines to maintain consistent network configuration as they migrate across hosts.
Distributed virtual networking configuration consists of three parts.
Modern Network infrastructure designed for virtualization and the cloud
“Deploy flatter Two-Tier Network and Leaf-Spine Architecture”
As cloud architectures and multi-tenancy capabilities continue to develop and mature, here is an economy of scale that can be realized by aggregating resources across applications, business units, and separate corporations to a common shared, yet segmented, infrastructure.
Elasticity, mobility, automation, and density of virtual machines demands new network architectures focusing on high performance, addressing portability, and the innate understanding of the virtual machine as the new building block of the datacenter.
Virtualization technologies from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft encapsulate existing applications, and abstract them from the physical hardware.The network access layer formed by virtual switches is now inside the server.
The characteristics of networks that support virtualization and cloud computing demand that legacy network practices be abandoned in favor of modern cloud networking architectures, flatter two-tier leaf-spine architecture over a legacy, enterprise
three-tier design.
GRE vs. NAT
Packet encapsulation (GRE) and packet rewrite (NAT) are the two address translation mechanisms included in Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Network implementation
Cloud Network Topologies
Network virtualization and Multi-Tenancy virtual infrastructure provides the capability to run multiple virtual network infrastructures on the same physical network, and each virtual network infrastructure operates as if it is the only virtual network running on the shared network infrastructure.
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