Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Techniques and Designs for Highly Efficient Data Centers with Cisco Nexus, UCS, MDS, and Beyond Author: Gustavo A. A. Santana | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DGU17F8 | Format: EPUB
Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Techniques and Designs for Highly Efficient Data Centers with Cisco Nexus, UCS, MDS, and Beyond Description
Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals
For many IT organizations, today’s greatest challenge is to drive more value, efficiency, and utilization from data centers. Virtualization is the best way to meet this challenge. Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals brings together the comprehensive knowledge Cisco professionals need to apply virtualization throughout their data center environments. Leading data center expert Gustavo A. A. Santana thoroughly explores all components of an end-to-end data center virtualization solution, including networking, storage, servers, operating systems, application optimization, and security. Rather than focusing on a single product or technology, he explores product capabilities as interoperable design tools that can be combined and integrated with other solutions, including VMware vSphere. With the author’s guidance, you’ll learn how to define and implement highly-efficient architectures for new, expanded, or retrofit data center projects. By doing so, you can deliver agile application provisioning without purchasing unnecessary infrastructure, and establish a strong foundation for new cloud computing and IT-as-a-service initiatives. Throughout, Santana illuminates key theoretical concepts through realistic use cases, real-world designs, illustrative configuration examples, and verification outputs. Appendixes provide valuable reference information, including relevant Cisco data center products and CLI principles for IOS and NX-OS. With this approach, Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals will be an indispensable resource for anyone preparing for the CCNA Data Center, CCNP Data Center, or CCIE Data Center
certification exams.
Learn how virtualization can transform and improve traditional data center network topologies
Understand the key characteristics and value of each data center virtualization technology
Walk through key decisions, and transform choices into architecture
Smoothly migrate existing data centers toward greater virtualization
Burst silos that have traditionally made data centers inefficient
Master foundational technologies such as VLANs, VRF, and virtual contexts
Use virtual PortChannel and FabricPath to overcome the limits of STP
Optimize cabling and network management with fabric extender (FEX) virtualized chassis
Extend Layer 2 domains to distant data center sites using MPLS and Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
Use VSANs to overcome Fibre Channel fabric challenges
Improve SAN data protection, environment isolation, and scalability
Consolidate I/O through Data Center Bridging and FCoE
Use virtualization to radically simplify server environments
Create server profiles that streamline “bare metal” server provisioning
“Transcend the rack” through virtualized networking based on Nexus 1000V and VM-FEX
Leverage opportunities to deploy virtual network services more efficiently
Evolve data center virtualization toward full-fledged private clouds
- File Size: 116652 KB
- Print Length: 900 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (June 18, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DGU17F8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I've been looking for Data Center material that could help me getting in touch with these technologies for such a long time. I've always felt the DC world was too advanced for me because of the distinct protocols and the lack of readings for beginners. This book takes us from VLANs to Cloud Computing in an engaging and logical way. I especially enjoyed the "evolution" chapters because of the vendor-independent concepts concerning networking, storage, and server technologies. Great read!
By Rico Pereira
I found this book to be easier to read than most Cisco Press books. It's well written. This book is very useful for understanding how new visualization techniques work and where they fit into your network. The book is great on its own, but I would also recommend it if you plan on buying the NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching book. It gives much of the context and background information that seems to be lacking from 'NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching'.
By Keith
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