6 VMware SDDC Solutions

Question 1

Integrating Solutions at the SDDC Layers

Answer 1

• Physical: the physical infrastructure team manages the physical servers, storage, and networking devices.
• Virtual Infrastructure:
• vSphere manages multiple ESXi hosts and virtual machines (VMs) through vCenter Server.
• vSAN integrates with vSphere to manage the physical storage disks of ESXi hosts as a single virtual storage device for VMs.
• NSX Data Center provides the software-defined networking resources for managing connectivity between all SDDC layers.
• Cloud Management: Offers an online catalog of services for employees and customers. These services include applications, monitoring, storage, identity management, and many more.
• Service Management and Automation: VMBeans automates and monitors the entire portfolio of services and operations of its private cloud by integrating vRealize Automation with the service catalog and with vRealize Operations.
  So what happens when you make a catalog request for more storage space?
  The vRealize Automation system checks custom roles, policies, and approval flows that are predefined by the cloud team.
  vRealize Automation approves the request without any manual intervention.
  You begin to consume the additional storage space for your VMs.
  With vRealize Operations, the cloud team proactively monitors the usage of storage space to forecast when new storage space is required.
• Business Continuity: As an administrator, these solutions help you to protect the vSphere components, for example:
• To ensure that a data center continues operating during an anticipated storm, the team uses Site Recovery Manager to move the data center to a remote location, unaffected by the storm.
• With vSphere Replication, the team creates replicas of business-critical VMs. If a VM’s data becomes corrupted, you can recover it by using a replica.
• Security: VMware AppDefense and VMware Carbon Black provide security to the workloads running on your data centers.

Question 2

What solutions does each layer of an SDDC integrate with?

Answer 2

Security = VMware AppDefense and VMware Carbon Black
Virtual infrastructure = vSphere, NSX Data Center, and vSAN
Business Continuity = Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication
Service management and automation = vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation