VMware Cloud Foundation 4 – Hybrid Cloud Platform

Create/Scale/Remove VI Workload Domains

Automated Developer
Cloud
Automated Patching and Upgrades
Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes Infrastructure
VMware Cloud Tanzu Kubernetes vSphere Pod Service Registry Service Storage Service Network Service Ready
Operations Grid Service
APIs
Foundation
Run containers Store, manage and Manage persistent Manage virtual
Manage consistent, directly on the secure Docker and disks for use with routers, load
compliant and hypervisor for OCI images. containers, balancers, and
Password Update and Rotation conformant impoved security,
performance, and
Kubernetes clusters,
and virtual machines.
firewell rules.
Kubernetes clusters.
manageability.
Automated SSL Certificate Replacement
Multi-Site Management SDDC Manager VMware Cloud Foundation Services consists of two families of services
Cloud Admin Firmware, BIOs and Driver Updates Automation
Tanzu Runtime Services deliver core Kubernetes development services, including an up-to-date
distribution of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
Developer

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Hybrid Infrastructure Services include full Kubernetes and RESTful API access that spans creating
Integrated developer ready API and manipulating virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and other core capabilities.
Upstream
Network to
LAN/WAN/Internet

Physical Storage Options Physical Compute Options Physical Network Options

IP or FC Network
Management Domain -
Principle Storage ESXi Hosts Switches
TOR BGP TOR
vSAN is required to create vSAN ReadyNodes and Appliances
ASN 65001
the Management Domain
vSAN All-Flash Management
Workload
Domain
Caching
SSD PCIe NVMe
Tier
Write Cache

VI Workload
Domain - Principle
Storage Options
ESXi Hosts ESXi Hosts ESXi Hosts vmnic0 vmnic1 vmnic2 vmnic3 vmnic4 vmnic5
Used to create the
Workload Domain vSAN NFS FC
Capacity VI Workload ESXi
Domain
Capacity
Tier

uplink1 uplink2 uplink3 uplink4 uplink5 uplink6

Hybrid

All Domains - Supplemental Storage SSD PCIe NVMe

Caching
Tier

Used to add capacity

VI Workload
Read and Write Cache

to the Domains Scale out

vVoIs iSCSI NFS FC Domain Capacity

Capacity

Capacity
Tier
VDS-1 VDS-2 VDS-3

Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domains

Management Domain VI Workload Domain-1 VI Workload Domain-2

Cluster-1 Cluster-1

vSAN Cluster vSAN Cluster

Fiber
ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi Data-at-Rest ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi Data-at-Rest
Scale Scale Channel or Scale
Encryption Encryption
NFS Cluster

WLD1-VDS-01 WLD1-VDS-01
MGMT-VDS-01

Management

vMotion

vSAN
Edge 1 Edge 2 Edge 1 Edge 2
NSX-TEPs APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

T1
BGP Cluster-2 CPU
ASN 65005
NSX Manager
SDCC Manager ESXi
Controller
MGMT MEM LB
vCenter
T-0 ESXi ESXi ESXi Scale ESXi
Fiber
vSphere Pod Service
Storage Harbor
Channel or
Edge 1 Edge 2 NFS Cluster NameSpace-01
VI Workload Domain
vCenter-1
Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
NSX Manager
ESXi
Controller T-1
Master Worker Worker
vRealize Suite VI Workload Domain Node Node Node
VMs vCenter-2
NSX Edge Cluster
WLD1-VDS-02
NSX Segments

APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP Application Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod Pod
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
VLANs

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