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Using cookbooks for VMware deployments

Using cookbooks for VMware deployments

VMware® administrators can quickly realize cost-effective hybrid cloud characteristics by deploying into the IBM Cloud® enterprise-grade global cloud. vSphere workloads and catalogs can be provisioned onto VMware® vSphere environments within the IBM Cloud data centers without modifying VMware® VMs or guests. These deployments are made possible by using a common vSphere hypervisor and management and orchestration platform. vSphere implementations can also use other components of the VMware® vCloud Suite – vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vSAN, vCloud Network & Security, Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, and NSX.

The core objective of the VMware® cookbook series is to assist vSphere administrators with the deployment of VMware® vSphere environments within an IBM Cloud infrastructure. The cookbooks are not intended to train you how to administer vSphere. For more information about administering vSphere, see VMware® Education.

IBM Cloud has several specific capabilities that give VMware® administrators the flexibility to use bare metal servers and network, storage, and backup and recovery constructs in a self-service manner. You can then use these constructs to deploy fully functional vSphere implementations, which can be built to extend or replace on-premises vSphere implementations (VMware@Home).

The following guides are intended for experienced vSphere administrators. Some topics that are covered, consider that the reader has basic deployment skills to install and configure vSphere and vCenter.

  • Build a Single Site VMware® Environment You, as the vSphere administrator, are guided through the steps of building your environment, including the use of either Endurance or Performance Block Storage or QuantaStor.
  • vSphere Migration Scenarios are presented to help you migrate workloads into VMware® after your vSphere implementation is deployed in an IBM Cloud data center.
  • VMware® backup describes alternative approaches to backing up, recovering, and archiving VMware-based workloads that are running in a VMware deployment.
  • VMware® disaster recovery guide Documentation for VMware® Site Recovery Manager.