Managing Workload Domains in VMware Cloud
Foundation
Workload domains are logical units that
carve up the compute, network, and storage resources of the
VMware Cloud Foundation
system. The logical units are
groups of ESXi
hosts managed by vCenter Server
instances with specific
characteristics for redundancy and VMware best practices. The first workload domain, referred to as the
management domain, is created by during bring-up. The
VMware Cloud Foundation
software stack is deployed
within the management domain. Additional infrastructure virtual machines which provide
common services, such as backup or security appliances, can also be deployed in the
management domain.Each workload domain include these VMware
capabilities by default:
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vSphere High Availability (HA)
- vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- vSphere Distributed Switch
- VMware vSAN
- NSX Manager Cluster