Design for a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain

A design model for a virtual infrastructure (VI) workload domain of a VMware Cloud Foundation™ instance (also called VCF) that is based on the industry best practices for SDDC implementation.

VMware Cloud Foundation

provides the available design options according to the supported configuration by

VMware Cloud Foundation

, and a set of design decisions to justify the path that you select for building each component.

VMware Cloud Foundation
Deployment Options in This Design

This design guidance is for the standard architecture model of

VMware Cloud Foundation

. By following the guidance, you can examine the design for these deployment options:

Single

VMware Cloud Foundation

instance. This is the default configuration of the design.

Single

VMware Cloud Foundation

instance with multiple availability zones (also known as stretched deployment). A cluster in the VI workload domain that is shared between the NSX edge nodes and the customer workloads is stretched between two availability zones by using vSAN and configuring vSphere DRS rules and BGP on the NSX Edge nodes accordingly.

Multiple

VMware Cloud Foundation

instances. You deploy several instances of

VMware Cloud Foundation

, using NSX Federation for cross-instance services to SDDC management components.

Multiple

VMware Cloud Foundation

with multiple availability zones. You apply the configuration for the stretched cluster in the VI workload domain for a single

VMware Cloud Foundation

instance to one or more

VMware Cloud Foundation

instances in your environment.

In certain areas, configuration and design decision alternatives for each deployment option are available.

Automation for This Design in
VMware Cloud Foundation

The configuration tasks for the majority of the design decisions are automated by VMware Cloud Foundation. You must perform the configuration manually only for a limited number of decisions as noted in the design implication.

Intended Audience

VMware Cloud Foundation

Design for a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain

document is intended for cloud architects who are familiar with and want to use VMware Cloud Foundation to deploy and manage an SDDC that meets the requirements for capacity, scalability, backup and restore, and extensibility for disaster recovery support.