This solution consists of two VxBlock 1000 arrays for availability zones 1 and 2. There are two hardware resource tables shown below: to show the lab environment on which this was tested, and to provide the minimum configuration options needed to implement this solution.
Table 5. Hardware resources used in testing
VxBlock 1000 | 2 | VCF Cloud Builder VM, and NSX DHCP VM, Stretched VCF management domain, VI workload domain, edge cluster | ESXi 7.0.3 |
Cisco UCS B or C-Series Server | 1 | Stand-alone server used as witness host for VCF vSAN stretched cluster and a Metro node cluster witness | ESXi 7.0.3 |
metro node | 2 | metro node | V7.0 |
PowerMax 8000 | 1 | Backend storage for AZ2 | |
Unity XT 380 | 1 | Backend storage for AZ1 | |
The following table details the configuration options needed for a minimum VCF Multi availability zone deployment.
Table 6. Configuration options
Cisco UCS C-Series M5 spec AMP Nodes | 8 | 2 Clusters of 4 for VCF Cloud Builder VM, and NSX DHCP VM, Stretched VCF management domain (AZ1, AZ2) | ESXi 7.0.3 |
Cisco UCS B/C-Series M5,M6 | 8 | VI Workload Domain cluster (AZ1, AZ2) | ESXi 7.0.3 |
Cisco UCS C-Series M5, M6 | 6 | NSX Edge Cluster (AZ1, AZ2) | ESXi 7.0.3 |
Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 | 4 | 2 Top or Rack switches per VxBlock system (AZ1, AZ2) | |
Cisco Nexus 91308TC-FX3P or 92348GC-X | 4 | Management switches (AZ1, AZ2) | |
Cisco MDS 9148S, 9148T, 9396S, 9396T, 9706, or 9710 Multilayer Fabric Switches | 4 | SAN Switches | |
metro node | 2 | Storage replication | V7.0 |
Metro Node supported storage (See the metro node Simple Support Matrix.) | 2 | metro node backend storage (AZ1, AZ2). | |
PowerMax 8000 | 1 | Workload domain storage, R1 of SRDF/Metro configuration or metro node backend storage | |
PowerMax 2000 | 1 | Workload domain storage, R2 of SRDF/Metro configuration or metro node backend storage | |
