External vCenter Server with customer-supplied VDS

This section discusses a VxRail deployment with the external vCenter Server and a customer-supplied VDS and goes through a scenario for this VxRail deployment.

Overview

In Figure 3.7, you can see three VxRail clusters in this VMware environment: VxRail clusters A, B, and C. All clusters are managed with the external vCenter Server. The external vCenter Server can be a new vCenter Server instance or a vCenter Server instance in the existing VMware infrastructure environment. Starting from VxRail 7.0.010, a deployment option is available where a single customer-supplied VDS is created via the existing vCenter Server instance. If you choose this VxRail deployment, you can manage and monitor each VxRail cluster in a single management interface and the customer-supplied VDS spans across each VxRail cluster. VxRail Manager is installed on the VxRail cluster. Each VxRail node and all virtual machines (VxRail Manager and the other virtual...