Delltechnologies.com Copyright © 2020 DellEMC, Inc. All rights reserved. VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail– The only Cloud Foundation infrastructure offering with full stack integration vRealize Suite Components vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager delivers complete lifecycle and content management capabilities for vRealize Suite products. The design uses vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to deploy, upgrade, and configure of the vRealize Suite components. Performance Monitoring & Self Driving Operations: vRealize Operations vRealize Operations Manager is installed by the SDDC Manager using the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager API and is load balanced with NSX. Once installed, it is then configured to automatically collect performance metric data from all of the VMs in the Management Domain, including the SDDC Manager, PSC, vCenter, vRealize Suite, NSX, and ESXi hosts. The cloud administrator is then able to manage performance, monitor alerts, and optimize capacity all from the vRealize Operations Manager dashboards, including VxRail dashboards when using the optional native VxRail Management Pack. vRealize Operations Manager Cluster vROps Data vROps Replica vROps Master SDDC Manager ESXi NSX vRA PSC vCenter Horizon vROPs vRLI vRSLCM API VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud NSX Edge Load Balancer Log Aggregation: vRealize Log Insight Log Insight is automatically installed by the SDDC Manager during the bring-up process. Once installed, It is then configured to collect unstructured syslog data from all VMware Cloud Foundation components, including the SDDC Manager, PSC, vCenter, vRealize Suite, NSX, and ESXi hosts. The cloud administrator is then able to review all the aggregated log information from the Log Insight dashboard. ILB VIP Single Log Insight Cluster Using Integrated Load Balancer Master Log Insight Worker Log Insight Worker Log Insight SDDC Manager Management Switch ESXi NSX vRA PSC ToR Switch vCenter vROPs VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud Components vRealize Automation is installed by the SDDC Manager using the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager API and is load balanced with NSX. Once deployed the vRA administrator can create blueprints and deploy VMs to the VMware Cloud Foundation Private cloud. vRealize Automation Business Users can deploy application blueprints from the vRA Application Service Catalog or through the vRA API vRealize Automation Cluster SDDC Manager vm vm vm vm VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud vRSLCM API NSX Edge Load Balancer DEM Agent SQL Web VRA vRA Admin vRA Business User Service Catalog: vRealize Automation Install Configuration Management Patching Upgrade Content Management Marketplace Health Monitoring vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Overview VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail, a part of the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, delivers an experience you won’t find on any other infrastructure running VMware Cloud Foundation. It builds upon native VxRail and Cloud Foundation capabilities with additional unique Dell EMC and VMware jointly engineered integration features that make VxRail the only jointly engineered HCI system with deep VMware Cloud Foundation integration, making it the operational hub for your hybrid cloud. This helps simplify, streamline, and automate IT operations and provides the simplest path to hybrid cloud yet. Lifecycle Automation VxRail Cloud Platform VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail NSX Private cloud Public cloud Private cloud vSphere vSAN Network Compute Storage Cloud Management vRealize Suite Virtual Desktops Mission Critical Apps Container Apps Machine Learning Data Analytics/Hadoop IoT CaaS IaaS PaaS DaaS Intrinsic Security VxRail Manager HCI SDDC Manager SDDC Software Components vRealize Log Insight vRealize Business* vRealize Automation vRealize Network Insight* HCX* SDDC Manager vRealize Operations Manager Enterprise PKS AppDefense* Horizon vSAN VxRail HCI System Software NSX vSphere * Manually deployed Cloud Foundation Stretched Cluster Workload Domains Availability Zone 1 Site B Site A Availability Zone 2 VxRail VI Workload Domain VxRail VI Workload Domain Management Workload Domain (4 node min per AZ) VxRail VI Workload Domain (3+ node min) Stretched vSAN Cluster Stretched vSAN Cluster Stretched vSAN Cluster 3 rd site for witnesses Increased availability with minimal downtime & data loss Inter-site load balancing Stretched cluster support in both management and selected workload domains from the site that is being stretched Both Availability Zones (AZ) are active Ability to expand, delete and upgrade clusters Utilises a L2 stretched network Each stretched workload domain utilises a 3rd site for a vSAN witness VCF on VxRail Storage Architecture Cloud Foundation on VxRail implements a highly scalable and performant native VxRail HCI-based storage subsystem with vSAN. Both hybrid and all-flash configurations are supported. As an option, FC, iSCSI and NFS network attached storage are supported as supplemental storage options. Logical Network The configuration for the management, VxRail management, vMotion, vSAN and VXLAN networks are defined in the input parameters files used for VxRail and VCF bring-up. Network pools are defined within VxRail Manager when new VxRail clusters are created A Cloud Platform in your Data Center VCF Building Blocks Expandable as needed, up to vSphere Configuration Maximums SDDC Manager vCenter vCenter vCenter vCenter Workload Domain Multi-Instance Management vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm Database Workload Domain vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm Desktop Workload Domain GPU Enabled Servers vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm IaaS Workload Domain Container Workload Domains APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP vm vm vm vm vm vm vm vm Machine Learning Workload Domain Workload Types SDDC Manager vCenter vCenter Workload Domain SDDC Manager vCenter vCenter Workload Domain Workload Domains Domains start with a single VxRail cluster and as few as 3 VxRail hosts in each VxRail cluster. They can scale up to the vSphere/vSAN maximums and multiple clusters can be created per domain. Each domain has it’s own vCenter Server instance and is patched and upgraded independently. The vCenter Server instances for all workload domains are configured with enhanced linked mode to allow for a central visibility and control while also allowing role-based access controls to be used to secure and limit access. Multi-cluster domains enable scalability. Management Workload Domain PSC PSC Single Sign-on Domain Management Domain vCenter Workload Domain 1 vCenter Workload Domain 2 vCenter Workload Domain 3 vCenter NSX-V Manager NSX-T Managers Horizon Cluster - Pod 1 VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI Horizon Cluster - Pod 1 VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI VDI Workload Domain 1 (Virtual Desktops) App Cluster APP OS APP OS NSX ESG DB Cluster DB OS DB OS DB OS DB OS Workload Domain 3 (Traditional Workloads) Workload Domain 2 (Cloud Native Workloads) Ent PKS POD POD POD POD POD POD Master Worker Worker Worker OpsMan PKS Bosh Harbor POD POD VCF on VxRail Lifecycle Management Cloud Foundation on VxRail delivers unique integrations with Cloud Foundation to offer a seamless, automated upgrade experience. This includes VxRail hardware. SDDC Manager orchestrates and routinely checks the VMware and Dell EMC software depots to discover when software updates are available. If SDDC Manager does not have internet connectivity, use the Bundle Transfer Utility to manually download update bundles from the VMware software depot and manually transfer them to SDDC Manager. You can also perform offline updates for VxRail bundles too. Update Bundle Released Monitor & Reporting Schedule Updates Review Updates Update Notification SDDC Manager Schedule Updates Single Click Updates 2 Copy 3 Download 1 Marker File 4 Transfer VMware and Dell EMC depots VxRail Manager VxRail Cluster VxRail Manager VxRail Cluster VxRail VI WLD VxRail Manager VxRail Cluster Management Domain Offline Lifecycle Management Updates applied per Cluster Updates Over Time SDDC Manager Cloud Foundation Updates VxRail Updates Dell EMC Support Repository VMware Support Repository VCF Update Bundle VxRail Update Bundle Customer Provided IP-based or FC-based Dell EMC storage (iSCSI/NFS/FC) VxRail Hyper-converged vSAN Storage with Flash and HDD vSAN VxRail Hyper-converged vSAN Storage with all Flash vSAN Cloud Foundation supports a mixture of deployment options to suit a large variety of customer use cases. Cloud Foundation can be deployed in a single site consisting of one or more workload domains. Cloud Foundation can be deployed as a stretched cluster across availability zones with vSAN. New to Cloud Foundation 3.9 is Multi-instance Management which allows multiple VCF instances to connect for aggregated visibility and ease of management. Deployment Examples VCF on VxRail Single Site Deployment Single site deployment of one or more workload domains. Each workload domain can be multi-clustered SDDC Manager vCenter vCenter Site VCF on VxRail Stretched Deployment Stretched vSAN workload domain(s) between 2 sites. Each VxRail cluster has option to be stretched SDDC Manager vCenter VCF on VxRail Multi-instance Management Multiple VCF on VxRail instances connected via a Federation for aggregated visibility and ease of management Federation SDDC Manager VM vCenter SDDC Manager VM vCenter VCF Instance VCF Instance WLD Cluster Site Boundary 1 2 3 Physical Switches Virtual Distributed Switch VxRail Host nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3 VxRail Host nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3 VxRail Host nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3 VxRail Host nic0 nic1 nic2 nic3 vmk0 nic0 nic1 Load Based Team Management VLAN vmk1 nic0 nic1 Load Based Team vSAN vmk2 nic0 nic1 Load Based Team vMotion vmk0 nic0 nic1 Route Orig Port ID VxRail Management VXLAN vmk3 nic1 nic0 Route Orig Port ID VXLAN VTEP (NSX-V Only) Port Group nic0 nic1 Load Based Team vRealize NSX-V Edge Load Balancer(s) nic2 & nic3 reserved for NSX-T traffic VxRail Delivery Options Cloud Foundation on VxRail supports a flexible Bring Your Own Network (BYON) architecture. This allows for customer choice in VxRail delivery options. You can purchase VxRail appliances and supply your own networking and install it in your own racks or you can get it as a VxRail integrated rack, a rack scale integrated system with integrated networking. VxRail Appliances VxRail Integrated Rack Systems Customer choice of BYON networking Rack scale integrated options that include integrated networking