Learning VMware vCloud Air

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with VMware vCloud Air
Chapter 2: Working with Virtual Machines
Chapter 3: vCloud Air Networking and Security
Chapter 4: Extending vCloud Air
Chapter 5: Monitoring Workloads on vCloud Air
Chapter 6: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery using vCloud Air