Book description
This book approaches the HCI topic from the point of view that any individual working this field needs to have enough knowledge in all the different areas such as storage, storage networking, compute, virtualization, switching and routing and automation. The book will explain each area in the context of a legacy data center design, detailing the problem statement for the particular technology and how HCI solves the problem and to what extent. Equipped with such knowledge the IT professional whether at a technical or management level will be well prepared to evaluate the need to move into the HCI and to find the best approach and timeline to move from a legacy data center design to an HCI design.
The HCI for Data center book will be the bible for IT professionals, technical and management, in all technology areas, and will guide them through the decision process to move in the HCI direction.
Table of contents
- About This E-Book
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Icons Used in This Book
- Introduction
- Part I. Basics of Data Center Networking and Storage
- Part II. Evolution in Host Hardware and Software
- Part III. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
- Part IV. Cisco HyperFlex
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Part V. Alternative HCI Implementations
- Chapter 12. VMware vSAN
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Chapter 13. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
- Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform
- ECP Hyperconvergence Software
- I/O Path
- Data Protection
- Nutanix Advanced Functionality
- Snapshots and Clones
- Metro Availability: Stretch Clustering
- Data At Rest Encryption
- Nutanix Acropolis Block Services
- Nutanix Acropolis File Services
- Support for Hyper-V
- Docker Containers
- Provisioning, Managing, and Monitoring
- The Nutanix Competitive Landscape
- Looking Ahead
- Reference
- Chapter 14. Open Source—Compute and Storage
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Part VI. Hyperconverged Networking
- Chapter 15. Software-Defined Networking and Open Source
- Chapter 16. VMware NSX
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Chapter 17. Application-Centric Infrastructure
- Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure
- ACI Microsegmentation Constructs
- Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
- ACI Domains
- The ACI Fabric Switching and Routing Constructs
- Virtual and Physical Connectivity to the ACI Fabric
- The ACI Switching and Routing Terminology
- The ACI Underlay Network
- The ACI Overlay and VXLAN
- Multicast in the Overlay Versus Multicast in the Underlay
- ACI Multi-PoD
- ACI Multi-Site
- ACI Anywhere
- High-Level Comparison Between ACI and NSX
- Looking Ahead
- References
- Part VII. Public, Private, Hybrid, and Multicloud
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Data Centers: Demystifying HCI
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2019
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: 9780134997957
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