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VMware® administrators can quickly realize cost-effective hybrid cloud characteristics by deploying into the {{site.data.keyword.BluSoftlayer_full}} enterprise-grade global cloud. vSphere workloads and catalogs can be provisioned onto VMware® vSphere environments within the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} data centers without modifying VMware® VMs or guests. These deployments are made possible by using a common vSphere hypervisor and management and orchestration platform. vSphere implementations can also use other components of the VMware® vCloud Suite – vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vSAN, vCloud Network & Security, Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, and NSX.
The core objective of the VMware® cookbook series is to assist vSphere administrators with the deployment of VMware® vSphere environments within an IBM Cloud infrastructure. The cookbooks are not intended to train you how to administer vSphere. For more information about administering vSphere, see VMware® Education{: external}.
{{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} has several specific capabilities that give VMware® administrators the flexibility to use bare metal servers and network, storage, and backup and recovery constructs in a self-service manner. You can then use these constructs to deploy fully functional vSphere implementations, which can be built to extend or replace on-premises vSphere implementations (VMware@Home).
The following guides are intended for experienced vSphere administrators. Some topics that are covered, consider that the reader has basic deployment skills to install and configure vSphere and vCenter. {: note}
- Build a Single Site VMware® Environment You, as the vSphere administrator, are guided through the steps of building your environment, including the use of either Endurance or Performance Block Storage or QuantaStor.
- vSphere Migration{: external} Scenarios are presented to help you migrate workloads into VMware® after your vSphere implementation is deployed in an IBM Cloud data center.
- VMware® backup{: external} describes alternative approaches to backing up, recovering, and archiving VMware-based workloads that are running in a VMware deployment.
- VMware® disaster recovery guide{: external} Documentation for VMware® Site Recovery Manager.