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VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell Hyperconverged
Infrastructure (Dell EMC vSAN)
Introduction to the Technology
VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified software defined data center
solution that bundles compute, storage, network virtualization and cloud
monitoring and management platform. VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell
EMC AMD vSAN Ready Nodes platform can be deployed either on-
premises or hosted with a service provider as a private cloud or run as a
service within or integrate to, a public cloud.
VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture
Cloud Foundation can be deployed
as two types of architecture model -
standard and consolidated. A
standard architecture model includes
a dedicated management domain,
with dedicated infrastructure created
during deployment phase, whereas a
consolidated architecture is deployed
on a smaller infrastructure footprint
of six or fewer hosts, and both the
management and workload domains
run in the management domain.
VMware Cloud Foundation extends
the benefits of compute, storage and network virtualization to legacy data
centers and their cumbersome management of multiple siloes of
infrastructure and simplifies the provisioning, orchestration, monitoring and
management of infrastructure resources with an integrated software
defined data center platform that is the foundation for both private and
public cloud environments.
Tech Note by
Thomas MM
Summary
Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes are
preconfigured, tested and certified
hyperconverged infrastructure to run
VMware Cloud Foundation. Each
Ready Node includes the right
amount of CPU, memory, network
I/O controllers, within a vSAN
hyperconverged infrastructure
cluster for a private cloud solution.
Rather than starting from the
scratch of deploying varied
virtualization tools for compute,
network, storage, etc., vSAN Ready
Nodes helps start from a
preconfigured layer to deploy
VMware Cloud Foundation, which
helps customers provision
infrastructure automatically and
reliably through workload domains.
These Ready Nodes help reduce
human error by reducing the time
taken to choose and validate the
right cloud infrastructure, while
greatly accelerating the time
required to provision ready to use
infrastructure from weeks to just few
hours.
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