Ready-made, opinionated fleet architecture from the VCF Design guide covering a typical layout, say one small site or many sites over several regions. Use it unchanged, or swap individual models from the design library.
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Terms in this definition
- VCF design guide
Broadcom's design documentation for VCF 9.0, comprising the Architectural Options, Design Blueprints and Design Library; each design element in it is tagged as a requirement, a recommendation or a choice.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- Design Library
Where the VCF design guide keeps detailed designs, organised per component into alternative models that each have their own design elements. A blueprint's chosen model can be exchanged for any other in the same category.
Related terms
- Logical design
The level of a design at which the conceptual model becomes a set of components with counts and relationships, plus selected models such as the deployment models of a Design Blueprint. Physical details (hardware, sizes, VLAN IDs, addresses) are deliberately left for the physical design.
- VCF Fleet in a Single Site
Single-site Design Blueprint with one VCF Instance, workloads in their own workload domain and highly available NSX Manager, VCF Automation and VCF Operations. Tolerating rack loss means picking the multi-rack option, as single-rack clusters are the default.
- VCF Fleet in a Single Site with Minimal Footprint
Smallest Design Blueprint: management and workloads share one cluster in a single VCF Instance at one site, with VCF Operations and VCF Automation as single nodes under vSphere HA. Failures beyond a host or network path are handled by restoring backups.