Another vCloud Architecture Toolkit whitepaper that I authored was published on the vCAT SP website – it discusses how to architect vCloud Availability solution in large production scenarios.
It is based on real live deployments and includes the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Use Cases
- Disaster Recovery
- Migration
- vCloud Availability Architecture Design Overview
- vCloud Availability Architecture
- Network Flows
- Conceptual Architecture
- vCloud Availability Management Components
- Logical Architecture
- vCloud Availability Portal
- Cloud Proxy
- RabbitMQ
- Cassandra Database
- VMware Platform Services Controller
- vSphere Replication Cloud Service
- vSphere Replication Manager
- vSphere Replication Servers
- ESXi Hosts
- vCloud Availability Metering
- vRealize Orchestrator
- Management Component Resiliency Considerations
- vCloud Director Configuration
- User Roles
- Tenant Limits and Leases
- Organization Virtual Data Center
- Network Management
- Storage Management
- vApps and Virtual Machines
- Billing
- vRealize Orchestrator Configuration
- On-Premises Deployment
- In-the-Cloud Deployment
- Provider Deployment
- Failover Orchestration
- Monitoring
- Component Monitoring
- VM Replication Monitoring
- Backup Strategy
- Appendix A – Port Requirements / Firewall Rules
- Appendix B – Glossary
- Appendix C – Maximums
- Appendix D – Reference Documents
- Appendix E – Tenant API Structure
- Appendix F – Undocumented HybridSettings vCloud API
- Appendix G – Monitoring
Download from the vCAT-SP website: https://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/vcat-sp.html or direct link to pdf.
