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VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail– The only Cloud Foundation infrastructure offering with full stack integration

vRealize Suite ComponentsvRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager delivers complete lifecycle and content management capabilities for vRealize Suite products. The design uses vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to deploy, upgrade, and configure of the vRealize Suite components.

Performance Monitoring & Self Driving Operations: vRealize OperationsvRealize Operations Manager is installed by the SDDC Manager using the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager API and is load balanced with

NSX. Once installed, it is then configured to automatically collect performance metric data from all of the VMs in the Management Domain, including the SDDC Manager, PSC, vCenter, vRealize Suite, NSX, and ESXi hosts. The cloud administrator is then able to manage performance, monitor alerts, and optimize capacity all from the vRealize Operations Manager dashboards, including VxRail dashboards

when using the optional native VxRail Management Pack.

vRealize Operations Manager Cluster

vROpsData

vROpsReplica

vROpsMaster

SDDCManager

ESXiNSXvRAPSC

vCenter

Horizon

vROPs vRLI

vRSLCMAPI

VMware Cloud FoundationPrivate Cloud

NSX EdgeLoad Balancer

Log Aggregation: vRealize Log InsightLog Insight is automatically installed by the SDDC Manager during the bring-up process. Once installed, It is then configured to collect

unstructured syslog data from all VMware Cloud Foundation components, including the SDDC Manager, PSC, vCenter, vRealize Suite, NSX, and ESXi hosts. The cloud administrator is then able to review all the aggregated log information from the Log Insight dashboard.

ILBVIP

Single Log Insight Cluster Using Integrated Load Balancer

MasterLog Insight

WorkerLog Insight

WorkerLog Insight

SDDCManager

ManagementSwitch

ESXiNSXvRAPSC

ToR SwitchvCenter vROPs

VMware Cloud FoundationPrivate Cloud Components

vRealize Automation is installed by the SDDC Manager using the vRealize Suite

Lifecycle Manager API and is load balanced with NSX. Once deployed the vRA administrator can create blueprints and deploy VMs to the VMware Cloud

Foundation Private cloud.

vRealize Automation Business Users can deploy application

blueprints from the vRA Application Service Catalog or

through the vRA API

vRealize Automation Cluster

SDDCManager

vmvm

vm

vm

VMware Cloud FoundationPrivate Cloud

vRSLCMAPI

NSX EdgeLoad Balancer

DEMAgent SQLWebVRA

vRA Admin vRA Business User

Service Catalog: vRealize Automation

Install

Configuration Management

Patching

Upgrade

Content Management

Marketplace

Health Monitoring

vRealizeSuite

LifecycleManager

OverviewVMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail, a part of the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, delivers an experience you won’t find on any other infrastructure running VMware Cloud Foundation. It builds upon native

VxRail and Cloud Foundation capabilities with additional unique Dell EMC and VMware jointly engineered integration features that make VxRail the only jointly engineered HCI system with deep VMware Cloud Foundation integration, making it the operational hub for your hybrid cloud. This helps simplify, streamline, and automate IT operations and provides the simplest path to hybrid cloud yet.

Lifecycle Automation

VxRail Cloud Platform

VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail

NSX

Private cloud Public cloud Private cloud

vSphere vSAN

NetworkCompute Storage

Cloud ManagementvRealize Suite

Virtual Desktops Mission Critical Apps Container Apps Machine Learning Data

Analytics/Hadoop IoT

CaaSIaaS PaaS DaaS

Intrinsic Security

VxRail ManagerHCI

SDDC ManagerSDDC

Software Components

vRealizeLog Insight

vRealizeBusiness*

vRealizeAutomation

vRealizeNetwork Insight*

HCX* SDDC Manager

vRealizeOperations Manager

Enterprise PKS AppDefense*Horizon

vSAN

VxRail HCI System Software

NSXvSphere

* Manually deployed

Cloud Foundation Stretched Cluster Workload Domains

Availability Zone 1 Site BSite A Availability Zone 2

VxRail VI Workload Domain

VxRail VI Workload Domain

Management Workload Domain (4 node min per AZ)

VxRail VI Workload Domain (3+ node min)

StretchedvSAN Cluster

StretchedvSAN Cluster

StretchedvSAN Cluster

3rd site for witnesses

Increased availability with minimal downtime & data loss

Inter-site load balancing

Stretched cluster support in both management and selected workload domains from the site that is being stretched

Both Availability Zones (AZ) are active

Ability to expand, delete and upgrade clusters

Utilises a L2 stretched network

Each stretched workload domain utilises a 3rd site for a vSAN witness

VCF on VxRail Storage ArchitectureCloud Foundation on VxRail implements a highly scalable and performant native VxRail HCI-based storage subsystem with vSAN. Both hybrid and all-flash

configurations are supported. As an option, FC, iSCSI and NFS network attached storage are supported as supplemental storage options.

Logical NetworkThe configuration for the management, VxRail management, vMotion, vSAN and VXLAN networks are defined in the input parameters files used for VxRail and VCF bring-up. Network pools are defined within

VxRail Manager when new VxRail clusters are created

A Cloud Platform in your Data Center

VCF Building Blocks

Expandable as needed, up to vSphere Configuration Maximums

SDDC Manager

vCenter vCenter vCenter vCenter

Workload Domain

Multi-InstanceManagement

vm vm vm vm

vm vm vm vm

DatabaseWorkload Domain

vm vm vm vm

vm vm vm vm

DesktopWorkload Domain

GPU Enabled Servers

vm vm vm vm

vm vm vm vm

IaaSWorkload Domain

ContainerWorkload Domains

APP APP APP APP

APP APP APP APP

APP APP APP APP

vm vm vm vm

vm vm vm vm

Machine LearningWorkload Domain

Workload Types

SDDC Manager

vCenter vCenter

Workload Domain

SDDC Manager

vCenter vCenter

Workload Domain

Workload DomainsDomains start with a single VxRail cluster and as few as 3 VxRail hosts in each VxRail cluster. They can scale up to the vSphere/vSAN maximums and multiple clusters can be created per domain. Each domain has it’s own vCenter Server instance and is patched and upgraded independently. The vCenter Server instances for all workload domains are configured with enhanced linked mode to

allow for a central visibility and control while also allowing role-based access controls to be used to secure and limit access. Multi-cluster domains enable scalability.

Management Workload Domain

PSC PSCSingle Sign-on Domain

Management DomainvCenter

Workload Domain 1 vCenter

Workload Domain 2vCenter

Workload Domain 3vCenter

NSX-V Manager

NSX-T Managers

Horizon Cluster - Pod 1

VDI VDI VDI VDI

VDI VDI VDI VDI

Horizon Cluster - Pod 1

VDI VDI VDI VDI

VDI VDI VDI VDI

Workload Domain 1 (Virtual Desktops)

App Cluster

APPOS

APPOS

NSXESG

DB Cluster

DBOS

DBOS

DBOS

DBOS

Workload Domain 3(Traditional Workloads)

Workload Domain 2(Cloud Native Workloads)

Ent PKS

POD POD POD

POD POD POD

Master Worker Worker Worker

OpsMan PKS Bosh Harbor

POD

POD

VCF on VxRail Lifecycle ManagementCloud Foundation on VxRail delivers unique integrations with Cloud Foundation to offer a seamless, automated upgrade experience. This includes VxRail hardware. SDDC Manager orchestrates and routinely

checks the VMware and Dell EMC software depots to discover when software updates are available. If SDDC Manager does not have internet connectivity, use the Bundle Transfer Utility to manually download update bundles from the VMware software depot and manually transfer them to SDDC Manager. You can also perform offline updates for VxRail bundles too.

UpdateBundle

Released

Monitor& Reporting

ScheduleUpdates

ReviewUpdates

UpdateNotification

SDDCManager

ScheduleUpdates

Single ClickUpdates

2Copy

3Download

1Marker File

4Transfer

VMware and DellEMC depots

VxRail Manager

VxRail Cluster

VxRail Manager

VxRail Cluster

VxRail VI WLD

VxRail Manager

VxRail Cluster

Management Domain

Offline Lifecycle Management

Updates appliedper Cluster

Updates Over Time

SDDC Manager

Cloud Foundation Updates

VxRail UpdatesDell EMCSupport

Repository

VMwareSupport

Repository

VCF UpdateBundle

VxRail UpdateBundle

Customer Provided IP-based or FC-based Dell EMC storage (iSCSI/NFS/FC)

VxRail Hyper-converged vSAN Storage with Flash and HDD

vSAN

VxRail Hyper-converged vSAN Storage with all Flash

vSAN

Cloud Foundation supports a mixture of deployment options to suit a large variety of customer use cases. Cloud Foundation can be deployed in a single site consisting of one or more workload domains. Cloud Foundation can be deployed as a stretched cluster across availability zones with vSAN. New to Cloud Foundation 3.9 is Multi-instance Management which allows multiple VCF instances

to connect for aggregated visibility and ease of management.

Deployment Examples

VCF on VxRailSingle Site Deployment

Single site deployment of one or more workload domains. Each workload domain

can be multi-clustered

SDDCManager

vCenter vCenter

Site

VCF on VxRailStretched Deployment

Stretched vSAN workload domain(s)between 2 sites. Each VxRail cluster has

option to be stretched

SDDCManager

vCenter

VCF on VxRailMulti-instance Management

Multiple VCF on VxRail instances connected via a Federation for aggregated visibility

and ease of management

Federation

SDDCManager

VM

vCenter

SDDCManager

VM

vCenter

VCF Instance VCF Instance

WLD

Cluster

Site Boundary

1 2 3 Physical Switches

Virtual Distributed Switch

VxRail Host

nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3

VxRail Host

nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3

VxRail Host

nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3

VxRail Host

nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3

vmk0

nic0 nic1

Load Based Team

Management VLAN

vmk1

nic0 nic1

Load Based Team

vSAN

vmk2

nic0 nic1

Load Based Team

vMotion

vmk0

nic0 nic1

Route Orig Port ID

VxRail ManagementVXLAN

vmk3

nic1 nic0

Route Orig Port ID

VXLAN VTEP(NSX-V Only)

Port Group

nic0 nic1

Load Based Team

vRealize

NSX-V EdgeLoad Balancer(s)nic2 & nic3 reserved for NSX-T traffic

VxRail Delivery OptionsCloud Foundation on VxRail supports a flexible Bring Your Own Network (BYON) architecture. This allows for customer choice in VxRail delivery

options. You can purchase VxRail appliances and supply your own networking and install it in your own racks or you can get it as a VxRail integrated rack, a rack scale integrated system with integrated networking.

VxRail Appliances VxRail Integrated Rack Systems

Customer choice of BYON networking Rack scale integrated options that include integrated networking