Learning VMware vCloud Air - Softcover

Wadia, Yohan Rohinton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785282875 ISBN 13: 9781785282874

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Leverage VMware's latest public cloud offering to build an efficient hybrid cloud infrastructure for your business

About This Book

• Create, deploy, and manage virtualized workloads on a public cloud platform using VMware vCloud Air
• Dive into the world of VMware vCloud and discover the key best practices and steps to perform disaster recovery using vCloud Air
• Monitor and automate your vCloud Air infrastructure using the VMware vRealize suite of products

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for cloud engineers or administrators who wish to explore and gain hands-on experience of VMware vCloud Air. To make the most of this book, it would be beneficial to have a bit of familiarity with basic VMware vCloud concepts, but no prior experience is required.

What You Will Learn

• Get to know cloud computing in detail: its features, benefits, and uses
• Explore the key features and functionalities of VMware vCloud Air
• Create and deploy your own virtual infrastructure on a public cloud
• Connect your workloads securely to internal and external networks
• Secure your infrastructure using firewalls and security policies
• Safeguard and protect your workloads using top of the line disaster recovery solutions
• Monitor and explore various aspects of VMware vCloud Air using the VMware vRealize suite of products
• Design a secure infrastructure on VMware vCloud Air with the help of tips and best practices

In Detail

VMware vCloud Air is a cloud offering by VMware that provides you with the flexibility and agility to create and manage your virtualized workloads with ease on a VMware-backed cloud platform.

This book starts off by providing you with a few key features and benefits of cloud computing, along with some interesting real-world use cases. You'll walk through how to integrate your vCloud Air with either an on-premise VMware-based private cloud or a different public cloud provider. Next, you'll explore the performance and workloads of your vCloud Air instance using VMware vRealize Operations Manager. Finally, you'll also learn how to leverage vCloud Air's Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering.

About this title

About the Author

Yohan Rohinton Wadia

Yohan Rohinton Wadia is a client-focused virtualization and cloud expert with over 5 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been involved in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing large-scale solutions for a variety of enterprise customers. These were based on the VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud, and Amazon Web Services platforms. He has authored numerous articles on cloud computing and open source technologies and products in international magazines, such as Open Source For You and Ezine. Yohan has also coauthored and published an IEEE paper titled Portable Autoscaler for Managing Multi-Cloud Elasticity. He shares his passion for technology on his blog at http://www.yoyoclouds.com. He is currently working with Virtela Technology Services, an NTT communications company. He is involved in managing the company's in-house cloud platform, and he works on various open source and enterprise-level cloud solutions for internal as well as external customers. He is a VMware Certified Professional and a vExpert (2012 and 2013) as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785282875
• ISBN 13: 9781785282874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192