To design a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment, you need to understand certain VMware Cloud Foundation concepts. What to read next Architecture Models and Workload Domain Types in VMware Cloud FoundationWhen you design a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment, you decide what architecture model, that is, standard or consolidated, and what workload domain types, for example, consolidated, isolated, or standard, to implement according to the requirements for hardware, expected number of workloads and workload domains, co-location of management and customer workloads, identity isolation, and shared or isolated networking and security. Workload Domain Cluster to Rack Mapping in VMware Cloud FoundationVMware Cloud Foundation distributes the functionality of the SDDC across multiple workload domains and vSphere clusters. A workload domain, whether it is the management workload domain or a VI workload domain, is a logical abstraction of compute, storage, and network capacity, and consists of one or more vSphere clusters. Each cluster can exist vertically in a single rack or be spanned horizontally across multiple racks. Networking Models in VMware Cloud FoundationVMware Cloud Foundation supports multiple networking models that provide different levels of network availability, resilience, and scale. VMware Cloud Foundation TopologiesVMware Cloud Foundation supports multiple topologies that provide different levels of availability and scale.