Architecting a vSphere Compute Platform
Overview
Scope
Use Case Scenario
3.1 Service Definition – Virtual Data Center Service
3.2 Service Definition – Hosted Private Cloud Service
3.3 Integrated Service Overview – Conceptual Design
Software-Defined Compute and Hypervisor Concepts
Scalability and Designing Physical Resources
5.1 Infrastructure Protection
5.1.1 Power Distribution
5.1.2 Cable Management
5.1.3 Environmental Considerations
5.2 Eliminating Single Points of Failure
5.3 Blade Servers Compared with Rackmount Servers
5.4 Converged and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
5.5 Compute Host Sizing – Scale-Up Compared with Scale-Out
5.6 Determining Host CPU and Memory Requirements
5.7 VMware Cloud Provider Program Compute Sizing Example
5.8 Determining an Appropriate vCPU-to-pCPU Ratio
5.9 Performance Tuning with NUMA
5.10 vNUMA
5.11 ESXi Host Server Advanced BIOS Settings
5.12 Host Connectivity
5.13 Single Hypervisor Compared with Mixed Hypervisor
5.14 Capacity Management for vCloud Service Providers
Planning Host Deployment
6.1 Preparing for Host Deployment
6.2 Boot from Local Disk
6.3 Boot from SAN
6.4 Boot from Removable Media
6.5 vSphere Auto Deploy
6.5.1 vSphere Auto Deploy Architecture
6.5.2 vSphere Auto Deploy Server Security Considerations
6.5.3 Stateful Compared with Stateless Compute
6.6 Customizing ESXi Images with Image Builder
6.7 Impact of vSAN
6.7.1 Post-Installation Design
6.7.2 Host Name and IP Address
6.7.3 DNS
6.7.4 NTP
6.7.5 Additional Network Configuration
6.7.6 Host Certificate
6.7.7 Core Dump Collector
6.7.8 Licensing
6.7.9 Scratch Partition
6.7.10 Remote Logging Configuration
6.7.11 SNMP Configuration
6.7.12 Local User Permissions
6.7.13 Active Directory Integration
6.7.14 Lockdown Mode
vSphere Cluster Design
7.1 Designing vSphere Host Clusters
7.2 Building Block Clusters and Scale-Out Architecture
7.3 Cloud Platform Management Cluster
7.4 Cloud Platform Edge Cluster
7.5 Dedicated Island Clusters
7.6 Host Placement for Optimized Availability
7.7 Virtual Machine Mobility
Planning for Server Failure
8.1 vSphere High Availability
8.1.1 Determining the Number of Host Failures to Tolerate
8.1.2 vSphere HA Components
8.1.3 The Master Slave Model
8.1.4 HA Failure States
8.1.5 Heartbeat Communication
8.1.6 Heartbeat Network Path Redundancy
8.1.7 Virtual Machine and Application Monitoring with vSphere HA
8.1.8 Heartbeat Datastores
8.1.9 Sample HA Cluster Configuration
8.2 vSphere Fault Tolerance
Resource Balancing and Transparent Maintenance
9.1 DRS Automation
9.2 Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
9.3 Distributed Power Management
Designing Host Security for Multitenanted Clouds
10.1 Hypervisor Secure Communication
10.2 Certificate Configuration and Usage
10.3 Local Account Management
10.4 Host Active Directory Configuration Status
10.5 Authentication Proxy
10.6 Transparent Page Sharing Security
10.7 SNMP Hardware Monitoring
10.8 Host Lockdown Mode
10.9 ESXi Firewall
10.10 Compute Component Patching
10.11 ESXi Logging Service
10.12 ESXi Host Hardening
Host Management
11.1 vCenter Server Appliance
11.2 Physical or Virtual vCenter Server
11.3 vCenter Server High Availability Options
11.4 Role-Based Access Control
Designing a vCenter Server Ecosystem
12.1 Platform Services Design
12.1.1 Embedded Platform Services Controller
12.1.2 External Platform Services Controller
12.2 vCenter Server Management Services Design
12.3 Sample Service Provider Deployment Scenario
12.4 vSphere Update Manager
12.4.1 vSphere Update Manager Configuration
12.4.2 vSphere Update Manager Download Service
12.5 vSphere Management Assistant Appliance
12.6 VMware vCenter Support Assistant
Operational Verification
vCenter Server Cloud Provider Use Cases and Architectures
Introduction
1.1 vCenter Server Overview
Dedicated vCenter Server Service Design
Introduction to vCenter Server Multitenancy
vCenter Server Multitenancy Elements
4.1 Design Considerations for Secure Separation
4.2 Design Considerations for Security and Compliance
4.3 Design Considerations for Availability and Data Protection
4.4 Design Considerations for Tenant Management and Control
4.5 Design Considerations for Service Provider Management and Control
VMware NSX
5.1 Overlapping Tenant IP Addresses and NAT
Understanding vCenter Server Role-Based Access Control
6.1 Best Practices for Shared vCenter Server RBAC Design
6.2 Examples of Shared vCenter Server Service Roles
6.3 VMware vCenter Single Sign-On
6.4 Host-Based Authentication
Metering and Chargeback Design
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers
Transitioning from a Shared vCenter Server Model to vCloud Director
Design Considerations for vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight
Conclusion
Overview
Conclusion