This document provides an overview of designing a private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud using VMware technologies. It outlines key requirements like agile infrastructure, service level agreements, data protection, and automation. It then discusses constraints like staffing. The design proposes using VMware vRealize Automation for self-service provisioning, vRealize Operations for monitoring, and clustering ESXi hosts across multiple sites with VMware Metro Storage. It depicts the overall architecture including dedicated management clusters, local and stretched compute clusters, and disaster recovery sites. It also introduces the concepts of "pods" which combine computing, networking and storage into standardized hardware blocks, and using these pods along with a leaf-spine fabric to build

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Private IaaS Cloud
How to design your private IaaS Cloud
David Pasek
dpasek@vmware.com
VMware, Senior HCI Specialist

2. Design factor analysis
Requirements, Constraints, Assumptions
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Requirements
- Agile and Flexible Infrastructure for business-critical applications
- Infrastructure Service Delivery in compliance with mutually agreed SLAs
- Active/Active VMware Metro Storage Cluster for some virtual workloads
- Active/Active OS/App Clustering for some virtual workloads
- Local Data Protection of all virtual workloads based on SLA
- Remote Data Protection with Disaster Recovery of some virtual workloads based on SLA
- Private IaaS Cloud Automation
- Hardware infrastructure standardization
- Infrastructure management simplification

3. Design factor analysis
Requirements, Constraints, Assumptions
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Constraints
- Technical engineering staff
- Technical operational staff

4. Design factor analysis
Requirements, Constraints, Assumptions
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Assumptions
- DC Sites (A,B, DR) are Tier 3+
- 100Gb+ network connectivity between DC sites

5. Service Catalog
Technical Specifications with SLA’s
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6. Self-Service Catalog – VMware vRealize Automation
vRealize Automation as a Self-Service portal
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7. Health & SLA – VMware vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations Manager to monitor infrastructure health and SLA
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8. Concept of Modern Datacenter
High Level Architecture
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REMOTE
Site A Site B
Site DR
DC MANAGEMENT CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster - VMware Metro Storage Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD STRETCHED CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster - VMware Metro Storage Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
PAYLOAD STRETCHED CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster - VMware Metro Storage Cluster
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DR MANAGEMENT CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
L2 OVER L3 NETWORK
L2 NETWORK
DC
L2 NETWORK
L2 OVER L3 NETWORK
DR
Site REMOTE
PAYLOAD
LOCAL
CLUSTER
vSphere Cluster
L2 NETWORK
• Dedicated management cluster with
Independent L2 network
• Management Cluster stretched across
two sites
• DC Fabric (L2 over L3 network) for
payload
• Local vSphere Clusters (Resource
Pools)
• Stretched vSphere Clusters (Resource
Pools)
• Disaster Recovery Site
• Remote Sites

9. pPOD – Universal Concept of Infrastructure Block
High Level Architecture
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• pPOD is block of physical hardware designed as
integrated system of Compute, Network and
Storage
• pPOD is a single rack
• pPOD is workload domain of one or more vSphere
Clusters
• pPOD is designed as an universal, replaceable
infrastructure component
• pPOD is isolated fault domain.
VMware
Hypervisor
ESXi Server 02
vSphere Cluster
VMware
Hypervisor
ESXi Server N
L3 Ethernet SW L3 Ethernet SW
VMware
Hypervisor
ESXi Server 01
Shared Storage
L3 Fabric nebo
Network
pPOD
Datacenter Facility
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L3
L2
VMware
Hypervisor
ESXi Server N
vSphere Cluster
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Shared Storage

10. pPOD – Rack Layout
High Level Architecture
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Site
2x L3 TOR Ethernet Switch
Dell EMC VxRAIL Appliances
1x L2 OOB 1Gb Ethernet Switch
OOB 1Gb Eth SW

11. pPOD – DC Payload Cluster
High Level Architecture
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12. pPOD – DC Payload Stretched Cluster
High Level Architecture
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13. sPOD – Universal Concept of Storage Block
High Level Architecture
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• sPOD is block of physical hardware designed as an
integrated system Storage System
• sPOD is designed as a universal, replaceable
infrastructure component
• sPOD supports one or many storage protocols like
• iSCSI, FCoE
• iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA)
• NVMe-oF (RoCE or TCP/IP)
• NFS, CIFS
• S3 API

14. POD Datacenter
High Level Architecture
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• pPOD (Hyper Converged Infrastructure)
covers 80%+ datacenter workloads
• sPOD provides special storage services
like
• Object storage
• File storage
• Secondary Storage for backup
• Tertiary storage for archive
• 100Gb DC Fabric (Leaf-Spine) works
as a high bandwidth data traffic
backplane among PODs

15. L3 Datacenter Fabric
High Level Architecture
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16. Network and Security Virtualization Platform
NSX Micro-segmentation
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17. SDDC Management
Software-defined Datacenter Management and Operations Stack
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18. SDDC Data Protection
Agentless backup – Profile Driven Backup Strategy leveraging vSphere tags
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19. SDDC Disaster Recovery
Automated Disaster Recovery from Primary to DR Datacenter
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20. People, Organization and Processes
Org Chart for IaaS Cloud provider
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VMware Cloud Foundation
on VxRAIL
What is it? High Level Overview.
David Pasek
VMware, Senior HCI Specialist

22. IT service delivery automation and self driving operations
Automate IT processes, adopt self driving operations, and build a standardized catalog of services for
easy consumption to accelerate IT service delivery for your business beyond the datacenter with hybrid
cloud.
Business outcomes for Cloud Foundation on VxRail with
VMware cloud management
Rapid deployment of a standarized private cloud
Reduce risk and benefit from a standarized, integrated architecture on premises and off premises
with automated lifecycle management
IT transformation to become a service broker/provider
Accelerate Digital Transformation by adopting an IT-as-a-Service operating model and becoming
a service provider or service broker for your business.

23. Full stack integration
VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail delivers
end-to-end stack lifecycle automation
Automated install of
VxRail clusters
& SDDC software
Automated
VxRail & SDDC
environment
configuration
Automated VxRail
infrastructure resources
provisioning (VxRail VI
workload domains)
Integrated
& automated
end- to-end
infrastructure
patch &
upgrade
Rapid deployment and configuration
of HCI infrastructure using native VxRail
deployment process
Rapid SDDC deployment and
configuration that is “VxRail aware”
Integrated provisioning of VxRail
infrastructure pools
One-click, curated, end to end stack
patching and upgrading

24. Cloud Foundation on VxRail management
Easily deploy, configure, and lifecycle entire end-to-end software and hardware infrastructure stack
ConfigurationDeployment
Patching &
upgrades
Policy based
Provisioning
Configuration
Policy based
Provisioning
Patching &
upgrades
Deployment
SDDC
Manager
VxRail
Manager
vCenterNSX
vRealize Suite
VM
SDDC Manager
• Orchestrates the deployment, configuration, and
lifecycle management of vCenter, NSX, and vRealize
Suite above the ESXi and vSAN layers of VxRail
• Unifies multiple VxRail clusters as workload domains
or as multi-cluster workload domains
VxRail Manager
• Integrated with the SDDC Manager
• Used to deploy, configure, and lifecycle manage
ESXi, vSAN & HW firmware.
• Uses native VxRail Manager deployment processes
• Uses SDDC Manager LCM orchestration framework
to execute native VxRail LCM
• Monitors health of hardware components and
provides remote service support
vSANESXi
HCI HW