By leveraging additional guidance contained in the VMware Validated Designs, customers can deploy VMware Cloud Foundation environments in multiple availability zones topologies to support a variety of multi-site, and stretched cluster use cases.

Figure 33.          VMware Cloud Foundation stretched cluster support

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9 and later supports multi-instance management, which allows multiple VCF instances to connect via a federation for aggregated visibility and ease of management. Figure 34 illustrates single site, stretched and multi-instance architectures:

Figure 34.          Various architectures supported by VMware Cloud Foundation