The build specification for a VCF deployment, captured in the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook and consumed by the VCF Installer. It realises the logical design by fixing exact products, versions, hardware and quantities, and values such as VLAN IDs, subnets, IP addresses, DNS names, MTU, certificates, rack placement and appliance sizes.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Physical design in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.
- Model deployment
Inside a resource, each deployment is a named copy of a Foundry model with its own TPM quota and deployment type. Requests identify the model by this deployment name.
- VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook
Excel workbook for collecting what a VCF fleet deployment needs up front, such as host numbers, sizing, and settings for VCF Automation, vSphere Supervisor, VCF Identity Broker and workload domains.
- VCF Installer
Successor to Cloud Builder: either converges an existing vSphere environment into VCF or deploys from scratch a new VCF Instance or fleet, with its management domain and core components.
- 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.
- VALUES
Returns in DAX the distinct column values, or table rows, still visible after filters are applied, sometimes with an extra blank entry. CALCULATE often takes the result as a table filter.
- VLAN
Layer 2 broadcast domain tagged using 802.1Q. In VCF they carry TEP, vSAN, vMotion and management traffic, and NSX can back segments with them.
- IDS
Security tooling that observes network traffic. Failed migrations can result if it, or a firewall, stops vMotion ports getting through.
Related terms
- Verification
Checking, as part of design validation, that what was built matches the specification: prerequisites met and configuration in line with the physical design. Validation instead tests against requirements.