VMware Cloud Foundation 4 – Hybrid Cloud Platform
Automated
Cloud
Operations
VMware Cloud
Foundation
Automated Patching and Upgrades
Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes Infrastructure
Password Update and Rotation
Tanzu Kubernetes
Grid Service
vSphere Pod Service
Manage consistent,
compliant and
conformant
Kubernetes clusters.
Automated SSL Certificate Replacement
Multi-Site Management
Cloud Admin
SDDC Manager
Automation
Firmware, BIOs and Driver Updates
Store, manage and
secure Docker and
OCI images.
Storage Service
Network Service
Manage persistent
disks for use with
containers,
Kubernetes clusters,
and virtual machines.
Manage virtual
routers, load
balancers, and
firewell rules.
VMware Cloud Foundation Services consists of two families of services
Tanzu Runtime Services deliver core Kubernetes development services, including an up-to-date
distribution of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
Hybrid Infrastructure Services include full Kubernetes and RESTful API access that spans creating
and manipulating virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and other core capabilities.
Integrated developer ready API
Physical Storage Options
Run containers
directly on the
hypervisor for
impoved security,
performance, and
manageability.
Registry Service
Physical Compute Options
TOR
Switches
ESXi Hosts
SSD
PCIe
NVMe
TOR
Management
Workload
Domain
All-Flash
vSAN
Upstream
Network to
LAN/WAN/Internet
BGP
ASN 65001
vSAN ReadyNodes and Appliances
vSAN is required to create
the Management Domain
Developer
Physical Network Options
IP or FC Network
Management Domain Principle Storage
Developer
Ready
APIs
Connect poster here
Create/Scale/Remove VI Workload Domains
Caching
Tier
Write Cache
VI Workload
Domain - Principle
Storage Options
ESXi Hosts
Used to create the
Workload Domain
ESXi Hosts
vmnic0
ESXi Hosts
vSAN
FC
NFS
Capacity
Tier
vmnic2
vmnic3
vmnic4
vmnic5
uplink5
uplink6
ESXi
VI Workload
Domain
Capacity
vmnic1
uplink1
uplink2
uplink3
uplink4
Hybrid
All Domains - Supplemental Storage
Used to add capacity
to the Domains
SSD
PCIe
NVMe
Caching
Tier
VI Workload
Domain
Read and Write Cache
vVoIs
iSCSI
NFS
FC
Scale out
Capacity
VDS-1
Capacity
Capacity
Tier
VDS-2
VDS-3
Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domains
Management Domain
VI Workload Domain-1
VI Workload Domain-2
Cluster-1
Cluster-1
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
Scale
vSAN Cluster
Data-at-Rest
Encryption
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
Fiber
Channel or
NFS Cluster
ESXi
Scale
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
Scale
WLD1-VDS-01
WLD1-VDS-01
MGMT-VDS-01
vSAN Cluster
Data-at-Rest
Encryption
Management
vMotion
vSAN
NSX-TEPs
SDCC Manager
NSX Manager
ESXi
Controller
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Edge 2
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VI Workload Domain
vCenter-2
LB
Storage
vSphere Pod Service
Harbor
NameSpace-01
Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
T-1
NSX Manager
ESXi
Controller
CPU
MEM
ESXi
Edge 2
T1
Cluster-2
T-0
Edge 1
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VI Workload Domain
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vRealize Suite
VMs
Edge 1
Master
Node
Worker
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Worker
Node
NSX Edge Cluster
WLD1-VDS-02
NSX Segments
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