Planning for Infrastructure Services in the Cloud

Planning for infrastructure services is dependent on the location of the running workloads, with a recommendation of placing services in close proximity.

In a hybrid cloud environment, where a mix of on-premises and VMware Cloud based workloads exist, organizations may run some or all infrastructure services from their on-premises datacenter and extend these services to VMware Cloud-based workloads.

For organizations planning on exclusively running within a VMware Cloud SDDC, where an on-premises datacenter is no longer available, cloud-native infrastructure services is needed primarily to facilitate these core services. The use of multi-cloud can also add additional challenges, such as using multiple similar services across various infrastructure service providers or simply extending infrastructure services from an on-premises datacenter to a VMware Cloud-based environment. Security and access policies can also play a large role in the architecture of infrastructure services; hence it is essential to include your security team in the planning phase.