Abstract: An example method of determining application topology in a virtualized computing system having a cluster of hosts with hypervisors supporting virtual machines (VMs), the method including: executing agents on the VMs to obtain process metadata describing processes executing in the VMs; receiving, at an application analysis system, the process metadata; receiving network flow metadata from the agents on the VMs and/or from a network analyzer in the virtualized computing system; parsing the network flow metadata to identify a source VM and a destination VM of the VMs; relating the network flow metadata to portions of the process metadata associated with the source and the destination VMs to identify a source process and a destination process; and generating a topology of a source component connected to a destination component, the source component identifying the source VM and the source process, the destination component identifying the destination VM and the destination process.

Abstract: Aspects directed towards deploying a software-defined data center (SDDC) are disclosed. In one example, an SDDC software package is received at a public cloud computing environment in which the SDDC software package facilitates creating an SDDC on a plurality of host computers. A first test of the SDDC is then performed via a first testing server and a second test is performed via a second testing server. For this example, the first test is a generic test of the SDCC corresponding to a generic deployment of the SDDC software package on the plurality of host computers, whereas the second test is a custom test of the SDCC corresponding to a custom deployment of the SDCC software package. A usability of the SDCC is then validated based on at least one of the first test or the second test.

Abstract: Aspects directed towards deploying a software-defined data center (SDDC) are disclosed. In one example, an SDDC software package is received at a public cloud computing environment in which the SDDC software package facilitates creating an SDDC on a plurality of host computers. A first test of the SDDC is then performed via a first testing server and a second test is performed via a second testing server. For this example, the first test is a generic test of the SDCC corresponding to a generic deployment of the SDDC software package on the plurality of host computers, whereas the second test is a custom test of the SDCC corresponding to a custom deployment of the SDCC software package. A usability of the SDCC is then validated based on at least one of the first test or the second test.