New eBook: Gorilla Guide to…Operating and Optimizing VMware vSphere Foundation

The new Gorilla Guide to…Operating and Optimizing VMware vSphere Foundation by Ed Tittel and published by ActualTech Media is informative for vSphere customers who are looking to get started with enterprise-class Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).

Broadcom Partners can assist interested customers in maximizing their engagement with VMware vSphere Foundation by applying the concepts outlined in this eBook.

In this eBook, you will learn:

How VMware vSphere Foundation is an improvement over vSphere-only environments.

What is in VMware vSphere Foundation:

Compute virtualization with vSphere
Hyperconverged storage with vSAN
Proactive operations, logging, and diagnostics with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations.

How to optimize Data Centers with better operations management for both compute with vSphere and storage with vSAN.

Finally, learn from two customer stories: Wistron and CID who have accelerated their business innovation with better operations for their infrastructure.

Read the new eBook: Gorilla Guide to…Operating and Optimizing VMware vSphere Foundation

Here are some highlights:

“We’ll…cover the basics of intelligent operations management, and dig deep into… adding capacity, planning infrastructure and we’ll survey the…landscape, cover the basics of intelligent operations management, and…for adding capacity, planning infrastructure and more.”

“[VMware vSphere Foundation] VVF also incorporates vSAN storage to create a hyperconverged infrastructure. But as storage needs grow, organizations may choose to add vSAN capacity to increase available storage pools. Various VMware add-ons can cover high-impact use cases such as load balancing, ransomware and disaster recovery.”

“[VMware vSphere Foundation] VVF provides a…[operations] troubleshooting workbench for administrators. This offers a single, unified workspace in which operators can find, diagnose and even fix problems and issues”

“In VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), capacity assessments serve to evaluate current and future resource needs within its virtualized environment.”

“Based in Hessen, Germany, [customer] CID GmbH…implemented…vSAN… embedded within the vSphere hypervisor…CID GmbH expects that vSAN…will provide it with sufficient flexibility, scalability, and performance to meet its own and customer needs for the foreseeable future. Overall, benefits of the vSAN implementation included:

5x Improvement in transaction capacity: jumped from 300K to 1.5M IOPS, for better application performance and efficiency.
Faster backups: 1TB backup times dropped to under one minute.
Longer infrastructure lifecycle: Enabled a 5-year cycle with scaling on demand that minimized storage review needs.
Cost savings: CID experienced a 30% drop in costs for storage planning and infrastructure maintenance.”

VMware vSphere Foundation is as an enterprise workload engine for both traditional and next-generation applications. VMware vSphere Foundation is an enterprise class Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution with compute, storage, and operations management.