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This is a step-by-step guide that will help you understand disaster recovery using VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.5. The topics and configuration procedures are accompanied with relevant screenshots, flow-charts, and logical diagrams that makes grasping the concepts easier.

If you are a solution architect or administrator who is interested in using VMware s vCenter Site Recovery Manager as a DR solution, this is the book for you. It is also an excellent handbook for on-field engineers, customer engineers, and support professionals. Although, the book assumes that you have a basic knowledge of virtualization using VMware, it can still be used by those of you who are new to virtualization.

Disaster Recovery using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Network and data center virtualization offer today's IT organizations immense opportunities to reduce costs, improve agility, and drive business value. But the field is evolving at a breakneck pace: many decision-makers and implementers are struggling to understand and choose among the options now available to them.

This book will cover both the "how" and the "why" of network virtualization. You'll learn how it works, which technologies comprise it, where to find your best opportunities to gain value, and how to leverage it your own enterprise. Replete with use cases and specific examples, VMware Network Virtualization offers unprecedented insight into how network virtualization works in the context of the datacenter. Coverage includes:

• The history, evolution, status, and future of Virtual Networking and Software Defined Networks
• Prerequisites and preparations for effective network virtualization
• Using next-generation data center network design to improve scale, availability, resiliency, and performance
• The rise of the virtual data center: reducing equipment and management costs, while improving user experience
• Key characteristics of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
• Using network virtualization to provide secure, efficient application access across organizations and functions
• Migrating workloads without changing IP addresses or networks
• VMware technologies for network virtualization: vSphere, vCNS, NVP, CloudStack, vCloud Director and more
• Architectural considerations: public/private clouds, IaaS, and hybrid tenancy
• Automation and integration opportunities

VMware Network Virtualization: Connectivity for the Software Designed Data Center

• Divulges troubleshooting methodologies, performance monitoring tools, and techniques and tools for isolating performance problems
• Details the necessary steps for handling CPU, memory, storage, and network-related problems
• Offers understanding on the interactions between VMware vSphere and CPU, memory, storage, and network

VMware vSphere Performance is the resource you need to diagnose and handle VMware vSphere performance problems, and avoid them in the future.

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