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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
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Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment on page 13
To start deploying vCloud Suite, you need a small number of physical hosts. Distribute your hosts into
three types of clusters, in order to establish the foundation of a deployment that can later scale to tens
of thousands of VMs.
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vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster on page 15
The number of vCloud Suite components in the management cluster increases as you add capabilities.
A management cluster can contain a minimal set of products, and you expand it as needed.
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Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure on page 16
The core of vCloud Suite environments consists of vSphere and the associated monitoring and
orchestration products, such asvCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
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Delivering an Infrastructure Service on page 22
The ability to deliver infrastructure as a service represents the technological and organizational
transformation from traditional data center operations to cloud. The infrastructure service lets you
model and provision VMs and services across private, public, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
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Delivering Platform as a Service on page 25
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) lets you model and provision applications across private, public, and
hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
To start deploying vCloud Suite, you need a small number of physical hosts. Distribute your hosts into three
types of clusters, in order to establish the foundation of a deployment that can later scale to tens of
thousands of VMs.
Management, Edge, and payload clusters run the entire vCloud Suite infrastructure, in addition to customer
workloads.
Deploying and leveraging vCloud Suite is a process that involves both technological transformation and
operational transformation. As new technologies are deployed in the data center, your organization must
also implement appropriate processes and assign the necessary roles.
In the diagram below, technological capabilities in color appear over organizational constructs in grayscale.
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