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Planning the Hardware Requirements for the VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain, Part 2: Cloud Operations and Automation

In Part 1, we built the hardware build of materials and determined the utilization of a basic VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management domain deployment. But we need to put the “cloud” in by adding automation and self-service capabilities provided by vRealize Suite. To accomplish that, we can use SDDC Manager to deploy all the components of the vRealize Suite: Operations, Automation, and Log Insight into the SDDC. In this post, we’ll explore the compute and storage requirements for these components like we did in the previous post. This is going to explore the components required for a single region SDDC. There are a few more steps and components needed for setting up Cross-Region support.

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Planning the Hardware Requirements for the VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain

When talking with customers about deploying a standard VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture, the topic of the hardware requirements and details for the management domain are usually glossed over. There’s a basic understanding that it will consist of 4 hosts with sufficient resources to run the SDDC components for the workload domains that it manages. When it comes time for purchasing though, what is the actual hardware that will run the management domain and does VMware have recommended specs for hardware for the management domain?

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Tracking Performance and Usability Enhancements to VMware vSAN Since 6.6.1

I’ve been at VMware for 12 weeks now and continuing to work towards being a vSAN expert. One of my many challenges facing that goal is not only learning the current state of vSAN’s features and capabilities (the latest being 6.7U3) but also learning how vSAN operated in previous versions to articulate to my customers why feature X in this release is relevant to them.

VMware has released updates to vSAN 75 times since the initial release in 2014 and 12 updates in 2019 alone. So where is the best place to start for having a foundational understanding of modern vSAN functionality?

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