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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
Conceptual Design of an IaaS Environment
In a vCloud Suite environment that is configured to deliver infrastructure as a service, tenants have access to
compute, network, and storage resources that have been preconfigured for them by the provider.
Figure 2‑9. Conceptual diagram of an IaaS environment
Private Network
External Network
Resource Providers
Fabric Groups Fabric Groups
Developers Group
Production Groups Validation Groups
Marketing Groups
Resources on demand Resources on demand
apps
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DB
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vSE
vSE
DB
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apps
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DB
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apps
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Tenant 1
apps
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DB
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vSE
DB
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apps
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apps
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Tenant 2
Private Network
Private Network
Internet
Corporate
External Network
vSphere Resources
vCloud Resources
External Resources
Resource providers
Providers are groups in the organization that configure and support the
underlying virtual infrastructure.
Fabric Groups
Fabric groups organize virtualization compute resources and cloud
endpoints by type and intent. An IaaS administrator also assigns one or more
fabric administrators to manage the resources in the fabric group.
Business Groups
Create business groups to associate a set of services and resources to a set of
users, often corresponding to a line of business, department, or other
organizational unit. Users must belong to a business group to request
machines.
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