Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals: Understanding Techniques and Designs for Highly Efficient Data Centers with Cisco Nexus, UCS, MDS, and Beyond (Paperback)

Gustavo A. A. Santana

  • 出版商: Cisco Press
  • 出版日期: 2013-07-01
  • 售價: $2,310
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,195
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 960
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1587143240
  • ISBN-13: 9781587143243
  • 相關分類: Cisco
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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.

 

Gustavo A. A. Santana, CCIE® No. 8806, is a Cisco Technical Solutions Architect working in enterprise and service provider data center projects that require deep integration across technology areas such as networking, application optimization, storage, and servers. He has more than 15 years of data center experience, and has led and coordinated a team of specialized Cisco engineers in Brazil. He holds two CCIE certifications (Routing & Switching and Storage Networking), and is a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E). A frequent speaker at Cisco and data center industry events, he blogs on data center virtualization at gustavoaasantana.net.

 

  •  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

 

-Reviews -

 

“The variety of material that Gustavo covers in this work would appeal to anyone responsible for Data Centers today. His grasp of virtualization technologies and ability to relate it in both technical and non-technical terms makes for compelling reading. This is not your ordinary tech manual. Through use of relatable visual cues, Gustavo provides information that is easily recalled on the subject of virtualization, reaching across Subject Matter Expertise domains. Whether you consider yourself well-versed or a novice on the topic, working in large or small environments, this work will provide a clear understanding of the diverse subject of virtualization.”

-- Bill Dufresne, CCIE 4375, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco (Americas)

 

 

“..this book is an essential reference and will be valuable asset for potential candi­dates pursuing their Cisco Data Center certifications. I am confident that in reading this book, individuals will inevitably gain extensive knowledge and hands-on experience dur­ing their certification preparations. If you’re looking for a truly comprehensive guide to virtualization, this is the one!”

-- Yusuf Bhaiji, Senior Manager, Expert Certifications (CCIE, CCDE, CCAr),

Learning@Cisco

 

“When one first looks at those classic Cisco Data Center blueprints, it is very common to become distracted with the overwhelming number of pieces and linkages. By creating a solid theoretical foundation and providing rich sets of companion examples to illustrate each concept, Gustavo’s book brings hope back to IT Professionals from different areas of expertise. Apparently complex topics are demystified and the insertion of products, mechanisms, protocols and technologies in the overall Data Center Architecture is clearly explained, thus enabling you to achieve robust designs and successful deployments. A must read... Definitely!”

-- Alexandre M. S. P. Moraes, Consulting Systems Engineer — Author of “Cisco Firewalls”

 

 

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《資料中心虛擬化基礎》

對於許多IT組織來說,當今最大的挑戰是如何從資料中心中獲得更多價值、效率和利用率。虛擬化是應對這一挑戰的最佳方式。《資料中心虛擬化基礎》匯集了Cisco專業人員在整個資料中心環境中應用虛擬化所需的全面知識。領先的資料中心專家Gustavo A. A. Santana徹底探索了端到端資料中心虛擬化解決方案的所有組件,包括網絡、存儲、服務器、操作系統、應用優化和安全性。他不僅關注單一產品或技術,還將產品能力視為可與其他解決方案(包括VMware vSphere)相結合和整合的互操作設計工具。在作者的指導下,您將學習如何為新的、擴展的或改造的資料中心項目定義和實施高效的架構。通過這樣做,您可以在不購買不必要的基礎設施的情況下提供靈活的應用程序供應,並為新的雲計算和IT即服務倡議奠定堅實基礎。在整個過程中,Santana通過實際用例、現實世界的設計、圖解配置示例和驗證輸出來闡明關鍵的理論概念。附錄提供有價值的參考信息,包括相關的Cisco資料中心產品和IOS和NX-OS的CLI原則。採用這種方法,《資料中心虛擬化基礎》將成為準備CCNA資料中心、CCNP資料中心或CCIE資料中心認證考試的不可或缺的資源。

Gustavo A. A. Santana, CCIE® No. 8806,是一位在企業和服務提供商資料中心項目中工作的Cisco技術解決方案架構師,需要在網絡、應用優化、存儲和服務器等技術領域之間進行深度整合。他擁有超過15年的資料中心經驗,並曾在巴西領導和協調一支專業的Cisco工程師團隊。他擁有兩個CCIE認證(路由和交換和存儲網絡),並且是一位VMware認證專業人員(VCP)和SNIA認證存儲網絡專家(SCSN-E)。作為Cisco和資料中心行業活動的頻繁演講者,他在gustavoaasantana.net上以博客形式分享資料中心虛擬化的知識。

學習虛擬化如何改變和改進傳統資料中心網絡拓撲
了解每種資料中心虛擬化技術的關鍵特性和價值
深入研究關鍵決策,並將選擇轉化為架構
順利將現有資料中心向更高程度的虛擬化遷移
打破傳統使資料中心效率低下的隔離
掌握VLAN、VRF和虛擬上下文等基礎技術
使用虛擬PortChannel和FabricPath來克服STP的限制
通過Fabric Extender(FEX)虛擬化底座來優化布線和網絡管理
使用MPLS和Overlay Transport Virtualization(OTV)將Layer 2域擴展到遠程資料中心站點
使用VSAN來克服光纖通道網絡的挑戰
改善SAN數據保護、環境隔離和可擴展性
通過資料中心橋接和FCoE來整合I/O
使用虛擬化徹底簡化