This architecture consists of a centralized management workload domain along with workload domains to support the required workloads.
Management Workload Domain
The management workload domain contains a single vSphere cluster called the management cluster. The management cluster hosts the Virtual Machines (VMs) that manage the solution. This cluster is crucial for the management and monitoring of the solution. Its high availability deployment ensures that the management and monitoring services are always available.
Component |
Description |
|---|---|
Management vCenter Server |
Manages the Management Workload Domain. |
Compute vCenter Server |
Manages the Compute Workload Domain. |
NSX Manager |
Three instances of NSX Manager are used in a cluster. |
vRealize Suite Standard |
Includes vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations. |
vRealize Network Insight |
Communicates with the vCenter Server and NSX Manager instances to collect metrics that are presented through various dashboards and views. |
vRealize Orchestrator |
Workflow engine, fully integrated with Telco Cloud Automation |
Telco Cloud Automation |
Includes TCA Manager and TCA-CPs. |
Tanzu Standard for Telco Management cluster templates |
Creates Workload clusters in the compute Workload domain. |
Compute Workload Domains
The compute workload domain can contain multiple vSphere clusters. Each cluster can contain a minimum of two ESXi hosts and a maximum of 96 (or 64 hosts when using vSAN), depending on the resource and availability requirements of the solution being deployed.
The Edge cluster, which hosts NSX Edge VMs, is part of the compute workload domain. This cluster provides virtualized network services such as load balancers and the north-south routing infrastructure to support the workloads.
Each compute workload domain can support a maximum of 2000 ESXi hosts and 25,000 VMs. If you use other management and monitoring tools, the vCenter maximums do not apply and the actual number of ESXi hosts and VMs per workload domain might be less.
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management cluster can be deployed in the Management Workload Domain, or the Compute Workload Domain based on the customer requirements. The recommendation is to use the Management Workload Domain.
