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Up to this point, this paper has covered vSphere with Tanzu (also known as TKGs) deployed on PowerStore T and PowerStore X models. vSphere with Tanzu is a fine option for organizations who want to deploy and manage containerized workloads in a Kubernetes runtime that is deeply integrated with vSphere.
VMware also offers and supports Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (also known as TKGm). Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides a consistent, upstream-compatible implementation of Kubernetes that is tested, signed, and supported by VMware. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid instances include the management cluster, the deployed Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, and the shared and in-cluster services that you configure. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid may be deployed to IaaS providers such as Azure and Amazon EC2 and for different failure domains such as AWS us-east-2, AWS us-west-2, and so on. TKG is a multicloud offering.
Like vSphere with Tanzu, TKG can also be deployed to vSphere infrastructure while vSphere with Tanzu is not enabled. This means that TKG can be deployed using a PowerStore T model for back-end storage. TKG can also be deployed to the AppsOn PowerStore X model to fulfill end-to-end vSphere, compute, and storage needs. TKG can be deployed on two ESXi hosts, which means that a single PowerStore X model appliance consisting of two nodes will meet deployment requirements. With this in mind, TKG on a PowerStore X model could be a good fit as an edge solution. For more information, see VMware Tanzu Edge Solution Architecture with ROBO Topology.