5.8
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
Figure 2‑2. Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite environment
Organization
Operations
Provider
IT Business
Control
Service
Control
Operations
Control
Infrastructure
Control
Orchestration
Virtualization Management
Management cluster
Edge cluster Payload cluster
● Start with three hosts
● Start with three hosts
● Start with three hosts
● Start with two clusters
Load balancer
Tenant
Portal
IaaS, PaaS, ITaaS Engine
Portal
Performance
and
capacity
management
Management cluster
The hosts in the management cluster run all management components
required to support the software-defined data center. A single management
cluster is required within a physical location. ESXi hosts running in the
management cluster can be manually installed and configured to boot using
local hard drives.
A management cluster provides resource isolation. Production applications,
test applications, and other types of applications cannot use the cluster
resources reserved for management, monitoring, and infrastructure services.
Resource isolation helps management and infrastructure services to operate
at their best possible performance level. A separate cluster can satisfy an
organization's policy to have physical isolation between management and
production hardware.
Edge cluster
The Edge cluster supports network devices that provide interconnectivity
between environments. It provides protected capacity by which internal data
center networks connect via gateways to external networks. Networking
edge services and network traffic management take place in the cluster. All
external facing network connectivity terminates in this cluster.
The ESXi hosts in the edge cluster are managed by a dedicated
vCenter Server instance paired with VMware vCloud Networking and
Security. Payload clusters that require access to external networks are
managed by the same vCenter Server instance. As the platform scales, you
should deploy additional Edge clusters to service specific groups of payload
clusters.
This specialized cluster will likely be small and can be made up of older, less
capable server systems when compared to the management and payload
clusters.
Payload cluster
The payload cluster supports the delivery of all consumer workloads. The
cluster remains empty until a consumer of the environment begins to
populate it with virtual machines. You can scale up by adding more payload
clusters.
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