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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture: Automate and orchestrate your Software-Defined Data Center on AWS

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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services

This chapter will brief you on VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment to get a unified software-defined data center (SDDC) platform for the hybrid cloud. Based on VMware compute, storage, and network virtualization, this deployment delivers a natively integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment, or run as a service from the public cloud with consistent and simple operations. It can be further integrated with VMware vRealize Suite, VMware Horizon, and VMware Integrated OpenStack to deliver a comprehensive SDDC platform.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Architecture overview
  • Workload domain logical architecture
  • Rack architecture
  • Storage architecture
  • Network architecture
  • VMware Cloud Foundation software design

Architecture overview

VMware Cloud Foundation is the unified SDDC platform for the private and public cloud. Cloud Foundation brings together compute, storage, and network virtualization into a closely integrated stack that can be deployed on-premises or run as a service from the public cloud.

The service architecture focuses on deploying it in an on-premises configuration and also as an extension to the public cloud. The Cloud Foundation architecture is shown in the following figure:


Figure 1: Overview of VMware Cloud Foundation architecture

Cloud Foundation adds several unique capabilities in addition to the core features and capabilities provided by vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and cloud management components.

Seamless integration of software-defined services

...

Workload domains

VMware Cloud Foundation creates a foundation for the SDDC by using workload domains. A workload domain is a policy-based resource container (logical architecture) with specific availability and performance attributes, and combines compute, storage, and network into a single consumable object for a specific purpose.

Cloud Foundation includes the following workload domain types:

  • Management workload domain
  • Virtual infrastructure workload domain
  • Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workload domain

This logical architecture is the foundation for the automated installation of software components, and helps to configure the appropriate services as per customer business objectives. Figure 2 shows the logical software component design for Cloud Foundation:

Figure 2: Software component logical design

Cloud Foundation can help with automated installation and configuration...

Hardware architecture – rack architecture

VMware Cloud Foundation is a hardware integrated solution. This means that it not only provides software configuration, but also provides automation for much of the physical hardware configuration. The following diagram depicts the standard physical rack configuration for Cloud Foundation:

Figure 6: Cloud Foundation rack

A Cloud Foundation rack consists of the following components:

  • Spine switches: This system comes with two spine switches that extend the network schema of the top of rack switches between racks and enables inter-rack connectivity. You can communicate between the uplink ports of the ToR switches and the spine switches. We require spine switches in multi-rack deployments, which are located in the second rack.
  • Management switch: The management switch helps public connectivity with the baseboard management controller...

Storage architecture (software-defined storage)

The primary source of storage for Cloud Foundation is vSAN. For example, a 1U server can have eight disks in the capacity tier and two disks in the caching tier. All disks are claimed by vSAN for software-defined storage.

The amount of available physical storage in workload domains depends on the number of physical hosts. The total capacity that is usable is also dependent on the availability requirements for the workload domains that are being configured. Storage policies are configured and specific to the workload being configured.

The following diagram depicts a typical storage configuration for Cloud Foundation:

Figure 8: vSAN storage design

In this configuration, storage traffic is carried over the 10 GBPS links between the hosts and ToR switches. All vSAN members communicate over this 10 GBPS network. Best practices recommend...

Network architecture (network virtualization or software-defined network)

The Cloud Foundation network is preconfigured to allow for simplicity of the configuration and provide the services as appropriate services for the rack. The physical configuration of the network is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 10: Physical network design

All hosts in a physical rack are connected to both ToR switches with 10 GB links. NIC port 1 is connected to ToR switch 1 and NIC port 2 is connected to ToR switch 2, with link aggregation (LAG) on each host.

The BMC is connected to the management switch over a 1G connection on each host. This connection is used for OOB management. Both ToR switches are further connected to a pair of spine switches in a dual-LAG configuration using 40G links. The spine switches are an aggregation layer for connecting multiple racks.

Cloud Foundation is designed...

VMware Cloud Foundation software design

Cloud Foundation controls the software as well as hardware in the environment using SDDC Manager. SDDC Manager is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12: SDDC Manager design

SDDC Manager has three major functions, as described in the following sections.

SDDC Manager

SDDC Manager is capable of managing and monitoring the virtual, as well as physical, components of Cloud Foundation. SDDC Manager further helps you in Cloud Foundation configuration, operations, and management configurations, allowing you to do the following:

  • Abstract, pool, and automate the physical components into a virtual entity.
  • Scale up/down hosts or switches to the rack. Adding more racks brings scalability, performance...

Summary

Service architecture principles define the underlying general rules and guidelines for the use and deployment of all IT resources and assets across the customer environment. They showcase a level of understanding among the different lines of business of the customer, and form the basis for making future architecture/roadmap decisions.

The architecture is based on a design of services, which mirrors customer business objectives that comprise business processes. Service-orientation delivers business agility and a boundary-free information flow. Service representation utilizes business descriptions to provide business processes, goals, rules, policies, service interfaces, and service components, which implements services using service orchestration. Service orientation places special requirements on the infrastructure, and implementations should use open standards to get...

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Key benefits

  • •Migrate and build your applications in Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cross Cloud components and services
  • •Gain in-depth configuration insights of VMware Cross Cloud architecture
  • •Learn to migrate applications from VMware to AWS and IBM Cloud

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Over the past two decades, VMware vSphere has been known as the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform. VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture shows you how to design and configure Cross Cloud Architecture by using VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite with various use cases across private, public, and hybrid Cloud. This book takes you through everything from a basic understanding of virtualization to advanced aspects of storage and network virtualization, clustering, automation, and management. This book will be your guide to designing all aspects of Cloud. We start with the challenges faced by a traditional data center, define problem statements for you, and then brief you on respective solutions. Moving on, all kinds of virtualization and Cloud offerings from AWS and IBM Soft Layer are introduced and discussed in detail. Then, you'll learn how to design IT infrastructures for new and existing applications with a combination of Cloud Foundation, vRealize Suite, and vSphere enabled with VSAN and NSX. Furthermore, you'll learn how to design and configure high availability, disaster recovery, and apply an appropriate compliance matrix. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to calculate the TCO/ROI, along with the VMware products packaging and licensing in detail.

Who is this book for?

This book is for administrators, Cloud architects and network engineers who want to globalize their infrastructure using VMware and AWS services. An initial setup of workloads and data center is beneficial.

What you will learn

  • Install and configure the Cloud foundation with Cross-Cloud services
  • Configure vSphere high availability with the vCenter redundancy setup
  • Architect and configure VMware with AWS Cloud
  • Deploy VMware components in IBM Soft Layer
  • Extend your DR setup with VMware to consume DRaaS
  • Design and configure software-defined networking
  • Implement compliance regulations to fix violations
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The Freedom with Cross-Cloud Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Service Architecture for Cross-Cloud Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Transforming a Data Center from Silos to Software-Defined Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing a Mixed Cloud Model with VMware Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Service Redundancy Across All Layers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing Software-Defined Storage Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VMware Cloud Assess, Design, and Deploy Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Transforming Your Network Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dealing with Data Sovereignty Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing Effective Compliance Regulations to Fix Violations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Lower TCO and Greater ROI with Maximum Agility Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VMware Pricing and Licensing for a Cross-Cloud Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I am impressed with how comprehensive and detailed this book is. Obviously tons of time and effort when in to writing this and he did a great job. I recommend this book to everyone. It seems like this industry is seeing lots of "surface" type books being pumped out right now that don't seem to have any application to the real world. This book is exactly the opposite..! This book can actually be used as a reference when you encounter real world problems. Great work..! I hope that this level of detail and professionalism catches on :)
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A very comprehensive book on VMware overall, explaining all aspects involved from implementing redundancy to transforming your network architecture.Great Effort by the author, nailing down you understand every single detail.
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