Supporting infrastructure is required to deploy and operate the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition platform. The following supporting infrastructure components must be deployed in your data center and have connectivity to the management network.
| Product |
Description |
|---|---|
| Active Directory Server |
Provides a centralized authentication source for management components. |
| DNS Server |
Provides forward and reverse lookup services to all platform components. |
| NTP Server |
Provides a time synchronization source to all components. |
| SMTP Server |
Sends email notifications from the platform in response to events and alarms. |
| SNMP Server |
Sends SNMP alerts to external monitoring systems. |
| NFS Server |
NFS share is set up for the VMware Cloud Director transfer directory to provide temporary storage for uploads, downloads, and catalog items that are published or subscribed externally. |
