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 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.
![Virtual Building Blocks](images/GUID-871CEE3F-99A5-4A9B-A804-0639365374B2-high.png)
Load Balancer for VMware Cloud Director and VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator must be deployed inside the management Pod.