Develop enterprise architect skills by building secure, highly available, and cost-effective solutions with Oracle Functions, Terraform, and the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Key Features Explore Oracle's Gen 2.0 Cloud infrastructure and its high-performance computing capabilities Understand hybrid cloud capabilities and learn to migrate apps from on-premises VMware clusters to OCI Learn to create Kubernetes clusters and run containerized applications on Oracle's Container Engine Book DescriptionOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a set of complementary cloud services that enables you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment. This book is a fast-paced practical guide that will help you develop the capabilities to leverage OCI services and effectively manage your cloud infrastructure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Solutions Architects begins by helping you get to grips with the fundamentals of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and moves on to cover the building blocks of the layers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), compute, storage, network, and database. As you advance, you'll delve into the development aspects of OCI, where you'll learn to build cloud-native applications and perform operations on OCI resources as well as use the CLI, API, and SDK. Finally, you'll explore the capabilities of building an Oracle hybrid cloud infrastructure. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to leverage the OCI and gained a solid understanding of the persona of an architect as well as a developer's perspective. What you will learn Become well-versed with the building blocks of OCI Gen 2.0 Cloud Control access to your cloud resources using IAM components Manage and operate various compute instances Tune and configure various storage options for your apps Develop applications on OCI using OCI Registry (OCIR), Cloud Shell, OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), and Service Mesh Discover ways to use object-relational mapping (ORM) to create infrastructure blocks using Terraform code Who this book is forThis book is for cloud architects, cloud developers, and DevSecOps engineers who want to learn how to architect and develop on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by leveraging a wide range of OCI IAAS capabilities. Working knowledge of Linux, exposure to basic programming, and a basic understanding of networking concepts are needed to get the most out of this book.

Discover how to simplify your data center architecture, reduces costs, and improve speed and agility with Cisco UCS at your side About This Book * Learn how to reduce equipment and operating costs, consolidate resources, and automate data center processes * Eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks that were traditionally required to connect servers in data centers * A practical hands-on guide that will help you to deploy servers and application stacks with ease Who This Book Is For This book is for system, network, and storage administrators who are responsible for Cisco UCS deployments. You need to have basic knowledge of server architecture, network, and storage technologies. What You Will Learn * Set up your Lab using Cisco UCS Emulator * Configure Cisco UCS, LAN, and SAN connectivity * Create and manage Service profiles * Perform various tasks using UCS * Backup and restore Cisco UCS configuration * Test various Cisco UCS scenarios * Manage and automate multiple domains In Detail Cisco Unified Computer System (UCS) is a powerful solution for modern data centers and is responsible for increasing efficiency and reducing costs. This hands-on guide will take you through deployment in Cisco UCS. Using real-world examples of configuring and deploying Cisco UCS components, we'll prepare you for the practical deployments of Cisco UCS data center solutions. If you want to develop and enhance your hands-on skills with Cisco UCS solutions, this book is certainly for you. We start by showing you the Cisco UCS equipment options then introduce Cisco UCS Emulator so you can learn and practice deploying Cisco UCS components. We'll also introduce you to all the areas of UCS solutions through practical configuration examples. Moving on, you'll explore the Cisco UCS Manager, which is the centralized management interface for Cisco UCS. Once you get to know UCS Manager, you'll dive deeper into configuring LAN, SAN, identity pools, resource pools, and service profiles for the servers. You'll also get hands-on with administration topics including backup, restore, user's roles, and high availability cluster configuration. Finally, you will learn about virtualized networking, third-party integration tools, and testing failure scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll know everything you need to know to rapidly grow Cisco UCS deployments in the real world. Style and approach This hands-on book takes a tutorial-based approach to help you understand the practical methodologies and deployment of Cisco UCS components.

Over 80 recipes to help you improve vSphere 6.5's performance and solve problems before they arise About This Book * The practical recipes provide cost-effective and high performance for any application running in a virtual machine * Contains best practices and troubleshooting techniques to resolve vSphere 6.5 performance issues * Get a comprehensive coverage of performance issues and solutions including vCenter Server design and virtual machine and application tuning Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator and are planning to deploy vSphere 6.5 in your organization and want to maximize its performance, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of the vSphere 6.5 concepts is essential. What You Will Learn * Understand the VMM Scheduler, cache aware CPU Scheduler, NUMA aware CPU Scheduler, and more during the CPU Performance Design phase * Get to know the virtual memory reclamation technique, host ballooning monitoring, and swapping activity * Choose the right platform while designing your vCenter Server, redundant vCenter design, and vCenter SSO and its deployment * Learn how to use various performance simulation tools * Design VCSA Server Certificates to minimize security threats * Use health check tools for storage and boost vSphere 6.5's performance with VAAI and VASA In Detail vSphere is a mission-critical piece of software for many businesses. It is a complex tool, and incorrect design and deployment can create performance related issues that can negatively affect the business. This book is focused on solving these problems as well as providing best practices and performance-enhancing techniques. This edition is fully updated to include all the new features in version 6.5 as well as the latest tools and techniques to keep vSphere performing at its best. This book starts with interesting recipes, such as the interaction of vSphere 6.5 components with physical layers such as CPU, memory, and networking. Then we focus on DRS, resource control design, and vSphere cluster design. Next, you'll learn about storage performance design and how it works with VMware vSphere 6.5. Moving on, you will learn about the two types of vCenter installation and the benefits of each. Lastly, the book covers performance tools that help you get the most out of your vSphere installation. By the end of this book, you will be able to identify, diagnose, and troubleshoot operational faults and critical performance issues in vSphere 6.5. Style and approach This cookbook is written in a practical, helpful style with numerous recipes focusing on answering and providing solutions to common and not-so-common performance issues and problems.

VMware vCloud Security provides the reader with in depth knowledge and practical exercises sufficient to implement a secured private cloud using VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Networking and Security. This book is primarily for technical professionals with system administration and security administration skills with significant VMware vCloud experience who want to learn about advanced concepts of vCloud security and compliance.

A tutorial-based approach which will help you understand the practical methodologies and deploying of Cisco UCS components. If you are a professional such as a system, network, or storage administrator who is responsible for Cisco UCS deployments, this is the perfect book for you. You should have some basic knowledge of the server's architecture, network, and storage technologies. Familiarity with virtualization technologies is also recommended (though not necessary) as the majority of real-world UCS deployments run virtualized loads. Knowledge of Nexus OS is not necessary as the majority of the management tasks are handled in a graphical user interface with very few exceptions using the CLI.

vSphere High Performance Cookbook is written in a practical, helpful style with numerous recipes focusing on answering and providing solutions to common, and not-so common, performance issues and problems.The book is primarily written for technical professionals with system administration skills and some VMware experience who wish to learn about advanced optimization and the configuration features and functions for vSphere 5.1.