This document is primarily intended for members of Cloud Service Providers (technical and business leaders, solutions architects, application owners, and operational engineers) who are involved in planning, designing, deploying, and operating VMware Cloud Provider Program solutions, or who are interested in investigating the benefits of cloud solutions powered by VMware Cloud Provider Program platforms and services.

This document assumes the reader is familiar with VMware product suites and has a general understanding of systems and networking concepts and operations. Some references to operational frameworks and their terminologies are also included.

The reference architecture outlined in this paper is meant to represent a building block that can be replicated to scale the solution as workloads require. However, the scope of this document does not include specific or detailed sizing information. Although hardware vendors might be included in the examples, do not consider this as direction or guidance because VMware Cloud solutions are hardware-independent and vendor-agnostic.