Reference Guide

Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T
18 Dell Technologies—VMware Cloud Foundation 4-node JumpStart Solutions Guide
4 JumpStart Solution is deployed and ready
After successfully creating the Edge Node Cluster, you have the following installed and configured—all
running on a vSAN:
• A fully functional VCF Consolidated Architecture cluster.
• SDDC manager
• VCenter
• NSX Manager
• Associated NSX-T controllers and edge nodes have been installed and configured
• Access to the VMware software bundles is tested and functional.
• The Cloud Foundation stack is updated to the latest available version.
• An NSX-T Edge Node Cluster has been deployed and is ready for any tasks that might be required.
Licensed software bundles can be deployed to this cluster via SDDC Manager. Resource groups can be
created and virtual workloads can now be deployed.
The deployed JumpStart Solution represents the fastest path into the realm of private cloud. The deployed
solution contains an entire suite of tools designed to provide the ability to manage both the physical and
virtual infrastructure running on best in class Dell EMC servers and networking. This combination of VMware
Cloud Foundation and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers provide a powerful, fault tolerant and easy to manage
hyperconverged infrastructure.
This private cloud platform can be enhanced by the deployment of additional software bundles to provide:
• Lifecycle management
• Operations and performance monitoring
• Workload deployment automation
• Modern application infrastructure (Tanzu, Kubernetes)
• Network micro-segmentation
While the initial deployment is only four hosts, additional Cloud Foundation workload domains can be
deployed later to scale out this private cloud infrastructure. Through network virtualization the solution can be
connected to public and private cloud providers to transform this private cloud solution to a hybrid cloud
solution.