vmware on IBM Cloud - Solution Architecture (2 of 10)
Nilay Shrivastava
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This is the 2nd of the 10 part blog series on vmware on IBM Cloud. In the first part I gave an introduction of vmware on IBM Cloud
We briefly touched on all the offerings which constitute vmware on IBM in my last post.
IBM Cloud provides the automated deployment of vmware solution components The offering in the solution portfolio consists of
- vCloud Foundation ( VCF) : vSphere ESXi, Platform Services Controller, vCenter Server appliance, SDDC manager, NSX and vSAN. VSF consists of :
a. 4-node base cluster
b. 2 Bare Metal Server size options
c. Upgradable Memory option
d. upto 27 additional nodes
VCF supports a minimum of 51 VMs considering each VM is 4 cores, 8 GB RAM and 150 GB HDD.
2. VMware vCenter Servers : vSphere ESXi, Platform Services Controller (PSC), vCenter Server Appliance, NSX and optionally vSAN.
a. 2-node base cluster
b. 3 bare metal server size options
c. up gradable memory options
d. up gradable NSX options
VCS supports a minimum of 31 VMs considering each VM is 4 cores, 8 GB RAM and 150 GB HDD.
The below diagram shows the solution components of vmware solutions on IBM Cloud:
The architecture of the deployment will be :
To learn about the solution architecture refer to my blog here. You can also reach out to me here, in case you need more information about the deployment of your workload.