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...
