Under the Three-Pod design, the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition platform contains a management pod, an edge pod, and a resource pod. Two separate vCenter Server instances are deployed. One to manage the management pod and another to manage the resource and edge pods.

  • Management Pod: Hosts all TCI management components. Its functions include resource orchestration, analytics, BCDR, third-party management, TCI-O, and other ancillary management.

  • Edge Pod: Hosts the NSX-T Data Center network components that are the NSX Edge nodes. Edge nodes participate in East-West traffic forwarding and provide connectivity to the physical infrastructure for North-South traffic management and capabilities. You can deploy Edge nodes on a VM and bare-metal form factor to meet the capacity and performance needs.

  • Resource Pod: Provides virtualized compute, network, and storage for workloads.

Figure 1. Virtual Building Blocks
Virtual Building Blocks
Note:

VMware Cloud Director and VMware vRealize Orchestrator load balancer Edges must be deployed inside the management Pod.