September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
Content preview from Cisco Data Center Fundamentals
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Chapter 20
Automating the Data Center
The data center is home to the applications that provide needed services. There are multiple different components, starting with the physical characteristics of the premises, such as the power supply and cooling, going through the infrastructure components, such as the compute, network, and storage building blocks, and moving up through the application stack to the operating systems, virtualization, microservices, and everything else that’s needed to create the redundant environment for our applications to run in and offer services. Multiple different professionals are involved in the designing and creation of a data center, and it continues to evolve and change over time. It is obvious that building and ...