It's All About Delivering Service with vCloud Director Empowered by virtualization, companies are not just moving into the cloud, they're moving into private clouds for greater security, flexibility, and cost savings. However, this move involves more than just infrastructure. It also represents a different business model and a new way to provide services. In this detailed book, VMware vExpert Simon Gallagher makes sense of private cloud computing for IT administrators. From basic cloud theory and strategies for adoption to practical implementation, he covers all the issues. You'll learn how to build a private cloud and deliver it as a service using VMware vCloud Director 5.1. Consider what it takes to transition to the cloud, including the business, technical, and operational issues Get familiar with the essential tools—the vCloud Director 5.1 suite Understand the delivery model of infrastructure-as-a-service Define a service catalog, including determining how to track and allocate costs and design for service levels Measure the impact of a private cloud on your legacy applications and infrastructure Implement efficient operations—learn how to apply automation, set up backup and restore, and maintain HA Deliver an end-to-end solution to an end user with a fully managed guest Foreword by Joe Baguley, Chief Technologist, EMEA, VMware
In this detailed book, VMware vExpert Simon Gallagher makes sense of private cloud computing for IT administrators. From basic cloud theory and strategies for adoption to practical implementation, he covers all the issues. You'll learn how to build a private cloud and deliver it as a service using VMware vCloud Director 5.1.
Cloud computing-accessing computing resources over the Internet-is rapidly changing the landscape of information technology. Its primary benefits compared to on-premise computing models are reduced costs and increased agility and scalability. Hence, cloud computing is receiving considerable interest among several stakeholders-businesses, the IT ind
To help readers understand virtualization and cloud computing, this book is designed to cover the theories and concepts enough to understand the cutting-edge technology. Meanwhile, in this book, the reader can gain hands-on skills on VMware Cloud Suite to create a private cloud. With the academic support from VMware, readers can use the VMware supported software to create various virtualized IT infrastructures sophisticated enough for various sized enterprises. Then, the virtualized IT infrastructure can be made available to an enterprise through the private cloud services.
To help readers understand virtualization and cloud computing, this book is designed to cover the theories and concepts enough to understand the cutting-edge technology. Meanwhile, in this book, the reader can gain hands-on skills on VMware Cloud Suite to create a private cloud. With the academic support from VMware, readers can use the VMware supported software to create various virtualized IT infrastructures sophisticated enough for various sized enterprises. Then, the virtualized IT infrastructure can be made available to an enterprise through the private cloud services.
VMware vCloud Director Cookbook will adopt a Cookbook-based approach. Packed with illustrations and programming examples, this book explains the simple as well as the complex recipes in an easy-to-understand language.VMware vCloud Director Cookbook is aimed at system administrators and technical architects moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and some knowledge of virtualization and managing cloud environments is expected.
A step-by-step guide to understand Agile, Scrum, DevOps and Cloud Computing using Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure Cloud DESCRIPTION Agile development and implementation of Scrum methodologies require quick delivery of applications. Manual activities to manage application lifecycle management are no longer sufficient. This book will cover the DevOps practices implementation that helps to achieve speed for faster time to market using transformation in culture using people, processes, and tools. Ê This book discusses the definition of Cloud computing and the benefits of Cloud Service Models. You will understand how Agile, DevOps practices implementation and Cloud computing can be utilized effectively to transform the culture of an organization. The main objective of this book is to demonstrate continuous practices of the DevOps culture using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure Cloud. You will learn how to track features, user stories, backlogs, dashboards, and burndown charts. You will also learn how to create and manage repositories. This book gives an overview of Microsoft Azure Cloud and Azure App Services and a brief description of virtual machines and App Services. It summarizes Build and Release definitions available in Microsoft Azure DevOps and explains how to configure Pipelines and create end-to-end automation pipelines. KEY FEATURES _ÊLearn how to do Continuous Planning in Azure DevOps _ÊLearn the basics of Continuous Code Inspection and importance of Code Quality _ÊLearn how continuous integration can make a difference in the application life cycle _ÊLearn how to create and configure Cloud resources using Platform as a Service Model _ÊLearn how to perform continuous integration using the YAML script and continuous delivery pipeline using a release pipeline _ÊLearn how to configure monitoring for Platform as a Service resources WHAT WILL YOU LEARN By the end of the book, you will get an overview of Agile, Scrum, DevOps and Continuous Practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, and Continuous Code Inspection. You will learn how all these practices can be utilized in real-life scenarios with the sample applications. This book will provide detailed insights into Microsoft Azure Cloud, especially Platform as a Service Model. A step-by-step implementation guide of continuous practices of DevOps will help beginners to get started with. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR ÊDevOps Evangelists, DevOps Engineers, Technical Specialists, Technical Architects, and Cloud Experts Basic knowledge of application development and deployment, Cloud computing, and DevOps practices BeginnersÊ Ê Table of ContentsÊ 1. An overview of Agile 2. Need for DevOps 3. An overview of Cloud Computing 4. Azure Boards 5. Azure Repos 6. Microsoft Azure Cloud 7. Microsoft Azure Cloud: IaaS and PaaS 8. Azure Pipelines: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery 9. Azure Pipelines Implementation
VMware vCloud Security provides the reader with in depth knowledge and practical exercises sufficient to implement a secured private cloud using VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Networking and Security.This book is primarily for technical professionals with system administration and security administration skills with significant VMware vCloud experience who want to learn about advanced concepts of vCloud security and compliance.
This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book is also useful to readers who do not consider themselves experts in this area, this book explains in detail the backgrounds of the various solutions. Also, practice-oriented case studies are provided throughout the book in order to make the reader aware of essential but perhaps less obvious points. However, the book concentrates exclusively on the set up and operation of the SAP infrastructure. It does not give details on how to install and customize the SAP software, nor does it deal with the much more complex tasks involved in business process implementation and reengineering.
Networked Control Systems: Cloud Control and Secure Control explores new technological developments in networked control systems (NCS), including new techniques, such as event-triggered, secure and cloud control. It provides the fundamentals and underlying issues of networked control systems under normal operating environments and under cyberphysical attack. The book includes a critical examination of the principles of cloud computing, cloud control systems design, the available techniques of secure control design to NCS's under cyberphysical attack, along with strategies for resilient and secure control of cyberphysical systems. Smart grid infrastructures are also discussed, providing diagnosis methods to analyze and counteract impacts. Finally, a series of practical case studies are provided to cover a range of NCS's. This book is an essential resource for professionals and graduate students working in the fields of networked control systems, signal processing and distributed estimation. - Provides coverage of cloud-based approaches to control systems and secure control methodologies to protect cyberphysical systems against various types of malicious attacks - Provides an overview of control research literature and explores future developments and solutions - Includes case studies that offer solutions for issues with modeling, quantization, packet dropout, time delay and communication constraints
