30 Aug 2016
By Yendis Lambert

VMware Cloud Foundation

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With the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), VMware laid out the vision for the architecture of the hybrid cloud. SDDC redefines the architecture and operational model of the data center, enabling IT to complete the transition to hybrid cloud and maximize its benefits. In an SDDC, compute, storage, and networking services are decoupled from underlying hardware infrastructure and abstracted into logical pools of resources that can be more flexibly provisioned and managed.   To accelerate the customer journey to SDDC, VMware has introduced VMware Cloud Foundation™, a new unified SDDC platform for the private and public cloud. Cloud Foundation brings together…
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01 Jan 2015
By Yendis

NSX vSphere – Getting Started

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This document provides step-by-step examples that demonstrate how to set up the following network services in NSX for vSphere: Logical Switches Logical Distributed Router Distributed Firewalls Logical Centralized Routers (Edge) with Dynamic Routing and with many-to-one NAT Logical Load Balancers (Edge) At the end, you'll have the following logical network deployed in your lab: L2 bridging, VPN, and service composer are not covered in this document. Likewise, integrations with third party vendors, such as Palo Alto Networks, Symantec and F5, are not covered here.
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28 Nov 2014
By Yendis

NSX Design Guide v2.1

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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 are just a handful of the gains that have already been realized. Now, VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is 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 VMware NSX, virtualization now delivers for networking what it has already delivered for…
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