| Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSDDC-PHY-003 |
Place the consolidated cluster in the same rack.
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The initial number of required hosts for the consolidated cluster (4 ESXi hosts) is low. You provide on-ramp and off-ramp connectivity to physical networks (for example, north-south Layer 3 routing on NSX Edge virtual appliances) to both the management and tenant workloads by using this rack. Edge resources require external connectivity to physical network devices. |
The data center must have sufficient power and cooling to operate the server equipment according to the selected vendor and products. |
| CSDDC-PHY-004 |
Allocate one or more racks to secondary storage. |
To simplify the scale-out of the SDDC infrastructure, standardize the storage-to-racks relationship. The storage system might arrive from the manufacturer in a dedicated rack or set of racks. In this way, a storage system of this type is accommodated for in the design. |
The data center must have sufficient power and cooling to operate the storage equipment according to the selected vendor and products. |
| CSDDC-PHY-005 |
Use two separate power feeds for each rack. |
Redundant power feeds increase availability by ensuring that failure of a power feed does not bring down all equipment in a rack. Combined with redundant network connections to a rack and in a rack, redundant power feeds prevent a failure of the equipment in an entire rack. |
All equipment used must support two separate power feeds. The equipment must keep running if one power feed fails. |
| CSDDC-PHY-006 |
Deploy a full-featured SDDC with a minimal management footprint and moderate workload capacity.
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The entry point for an SDDC is smaller. Customers with lower workload capacity can use the benefits of the SDDC. |
Growth past the workload capacity of the Consolidated SDDC requires a migration to the full VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center. |
