Cloud Infrastructure Design Objectives

Cloud Infrastructure Design Objectives #

The deployment of VMware Cloud Director on VMware Cloud Foundation using VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager validated solution has objectives to deliver prescriptive content about the solution so that it is fast to deploy and is suitable for use in production environments.

Objective Description
Main Objective Provide enterprise-grade validated VMware Cloud Director infrastructure on VMware Cloud Foundation deployed by VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture Support vSAN Ready Nodes
  • Standard
    • Single VMware Cloud Foundation Instance

  • VxRail Nodes Standard
    • Single VMware Cloud Foundation Instance
    • Scope of Implementation VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
  • Appliance based deployment
  • Configuration of NFS share for VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
    • vSAN FS – 100GB Size

    VMware Cloud Director
  • 5 Node Deployment (1 Primary + 2 Standby +2 Application)
  • Single Site
  • Appliance Based
  • Large sized cell deployment

    Configuration of NFS for VMware Cloud Director
  • vSAN File System
    Configuration of NSX for VMware Cloud Director
  • Deploy and configure NSX-T Data Center for VMware Cloud Director

    Usage Meter
  • Appliance deployment

    vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
  • Appliance based deplioyment
  • Node details to be updated
    Note: As a part of pre-requisites vRealize Operations needs to be deployed and pre-configured for vROPS TA to use.VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager doesn’t support deployment of vRealize Operations Manager.

    RabbitMQ
  • Linux based deployment
  • 2 Node Deployment
    • Workload Domain Type Support
  • Management workload domain
  • Virtual Infrastructure (VI) workload domains.
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    Scope of guidance Detailed design for solution components.
    Implementation
    Operational Guidance
    Solution Interoperability
    Deployment of VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
    Deployment of VMware Cloud Director, Usage Meter, vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App and RabbitMQ on VMware Cloud Foundation using VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
    Cloud Type Private Cloud
    Tenancy Multi-Tenant
    Load Balancing NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi)
    Availability 99%
    Certificate Signing Certificates are signed by a certificate authority (CA) that consists of a root and intermediate certificate authority layers