VCF tailored to remote locations such as branches and shops, built on Broadcom's documented edge patterns. It calls for ten or more locations, hosts of eight cores or more, a 256-core ceiling per location, and edge hardware kept physically away from workloads in the data centre.
Also called formerly remote clusters, Remote clusters.
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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.
Related terms
- BFD
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection quickly notices when a forwarding path breaks, letting an NSX Tier-0 gateway fail over its BGP sessions or static routes without waiting for hold timers to expire. Most VCF edge designs keep standard BGP timers alongside it; the exception is the dual-zone vSphere HA recovery design, which omits BFD, as vMotion can disrupt sessions, and shortens the timers instead.
- WAN
Wide area links between distant sites, whose bandwidth and latency restrict the placement of HCX migrations, VCF Edge sites, vSAN witnesses and fleet components.