Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on VxRail
Executive summary
VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail
VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Requirements and Use Cases
VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail workload domain planning
Data center and network requirements
Cloud Foundation on VxRail high-level design decisions
Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Planning
Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network planning
Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network preparation
VxRail Cluster deployment preparation
Prepare for VMware Cloud Foundation Management VI Workload Domain
Prepare for Cloud Foundation VI workload domain
Prepare for NSX edge gateway services
Prepare for Cloud Foundation Application Virtual Network
Cloud Foundation on VxRail housekeeping tasks
Appendix A: Cloud Foundation on VxRail checklist
Appendix B: Cloud Foundation on VxRail footprints for sizing
Appendix C: Cloud Foundation on VxRail Networks
Appendix D: VxRail network configuration
Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration
Appendix F: VI workload domain configuration settings
Appendix G: Edge gateway configuration
Appendix H: Application virtual network configuration
Appendix I: Sample switch configuration settings
References
NSX management options for VI workload domain
NSX management options for VI workload domain
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With each new VI workload domain, there is the option to deploy three new NSX management virtual appliances to manage network requirements, or to reuse existing NSX managers. The use cases that trigger this decision include:
- Test/Development or pre-production workloads that do not use the production network
- Applications in the workload domain have an NSX version dependency.
- Applications that require more isolation and security
- Cloud Foundation deployments that have a multitenant workload requirement
- A new VLAN-backed transport zone is required.
If a new set of NSX management virtual appliances is planned for the management workload domain, the following points must be considered:
- Each NSX manager has a resource reservation of 48 GB of memory.
- NSX managers are subject to vSphere HA admission control.
- NSX manager virtual appliances can be CPU intensive depending on workload activity.
Figure 10. VI workload domain deployment using existing NSX managers
Figure 11. Overview of initial deployment of NSX-based VI workload by SDDC Manager