In the logical design for ESXi, you determine the high-level integration of the ESXi hosts with the other components of the VMware Cloud Foundation instance for providing virtual infrastructure to the management components.

To provide the resources required to run the management components of the VMware Cloud Foundation, each ESXi host consists of the following elements:

  • CPU and memory

  • Storage devices

  • Out of band management interface

  • Network interfaces

Figure 1. ESXi Logical Design

An ESXi host has CPU and memory for compute, vSAN local storage and non-local storage, and NICs for virtual switch uplinks and a card for out of band host management.