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 Formatted reports, graphs and archives: Customizable reports and graphs are available on
performance, capacity utilization and trending, group configuration with alerts, replication,
status, host connections, and more.
9.7 VMware vCloud Connector
VMware vCloud Connector is an optional component of the Active System 800v solution. When included,
it is deployed upon the management stack, alongside other management VMs. For the base
functionality, three VMs are necessary, a single ‗server‘ VM and two ‗node‘ VMs. The node VMs are
responsibility for the physical transfer of VM workloads. Within the Active System 800v, two of these
components, the server and the local node, are installed. The third component, ‗remote‘ node VM,
should be installed outside of the Active System 800v solution, near the infrastructure to which it
provides connectivity.
After deploying the VMware vCloud Connector ‗node‘ VMs, the size of the virtual disk may have to be
increased based on the size of expected VM to be transferred and the number of concurrent transfers
anticipated.
As described in the section 3.11 of this document, ―Dell Cloud Connectivity using VMware vCloud
Connector‖, VMware vCloud Connector lets you view, operate on, and transfer your computing
resources across vSphere and vCloud Director in your private cloud environment, as well as Dell vCloud
public cloud. The key capabilities provided by VMware vCloud Connector are:
 Expand your view across hybrid clouds. Use a "single pane of glass" management interface that
seamlessly spans your private vSphere and public Dell vCloud environment.
 Extend your datacenter. Move VMs, vApps, and templates from private vSphere to a Dell
vCloud to free up your on-premise datacenter resources as needed.
 Consume cloud resources with confidence. Run Development, QA, and production workloads
using Dell vCloud, a VMware technology-based public cloud.
The Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud™ Datacenter is an enterprise-class, multi-tenant infrastructure-as-
a-service (IaaS) public cloud solution that is hosted in secured Dell data centers. Utilizing VMware
vCloud Connector, Dell Cloud provides you with unique hybrid cloud capabilities to extend your internal
data center with Dell and VMware by transitioning your VMware virtualized workloads into our vCloud
data center. vCloud hosting provides you with a secure, manageable, and flexible public cloud
application.
10 Scalability
As workloads increase, the solution can be scaled to provide additional compute and storage resources
independently.
Scaling Compute and Network Resources: This solution is configured with two Force10 S4810 network
switches. Up to two PowerEdge M1000e chassis can be added to the two Force10 S4810 switches. In
order to scale the compute nodes beyond two chassis, new Force10 S4810 switches need to be added.
Additional switches can either be stacked together and/or connected to this distribution switch based
on customer needs.
Scaling Storage Resources: EqualLogic storage can be scaled seamlessly and independent of the
compute and network architectures. Additional EqualLogic PS6110 arrays of same or different