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
