What's New in VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.1?

VMware Validated Design
for Software-Defined Data Center
What’s New in 4.1?

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About the Author
Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johnson is a Staff Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. As an accomplished technologist his
focus is enabling customers and community members to accelerate and simplify their infrastructure services
and organizations through the Software-Defined Data Center.
Ryan specializes in both the VMware Validated Designs and VMware Cloud Foundation
Staff Technical Marketing Architect
VCIX6-DCV, VCIX6-NV, VCAP7/6-CMA, VCP7-CMA, VCP6.5-DCV, VCP6*-*
VMware Validated Designs
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What’s New in 4.1?
§ Bill of Materials
§ Design Updates
§ Getting Started

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The
Bill of Materials

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vRealize Business 7.3
for Cloud
vRealize Automation 7.3
vSphere 6.5 U1
vSAN 6.6.1
Site Recovery Manager 6.5.1 vRealize Log Insight 4.5
and Content Packs
vRealize Operations 6.6.1
and Management Packs
NSX 6.3.3
Bill of Materials
What’s New in VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.1?
For a complete list refer to the release notes.

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Bill of Materials
Product Group and Edition Product 4.0 4.1
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus ESXi 6.5.0 a 6.5.0 Update 1
vSphere Data Protection 6.1.3 6.1.4
Update Manager 6.5.0 a 6.5.0 Update 1
VMware vCenter Server Standard vCenter Server 6.5.0 a 6.5.0 Update 1
VMware vSAN Standard or higher vSAN 6.5 a 6.6.1
VMware NSX Enterprise NSX 6.3 6.3.3
VMware vRealize Operations Advanced or higher vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 6.6.1
Management Pack for NSX for vSphere 3.5 3.5.1
Management Pack for Storage Devices 6.0.5 6.0.5

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Product Group Product 4.0 4.1
VMware vRealize Log Insight vRealize Log Insight 4.0 4.5
Content Pack for NSX for vSphere 3.5 3.6
Content Pack for Linux - 1.0
Content Pack for vRealize Automation 7 1.0 1.5
Content Pack for vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1+ 2.0 2.0
Content Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 3.0 3.0
VMware vRealize Automation Advanced or higher vRealize Automation 7.2 7.3
vRealize Orchestrator 7.2 7.3
vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for NSX 1.0.4 1.0.4
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Standard vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2 7.3
VMware Site Recovery Manager Enterprise Site Recovery Manager 6.5 6.5.1
Bill of Materials

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The
Design Updates

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vSAN Optional for Management Pod Primary Storage
§ Previous releases required vSAN as primary storage in the management
pod. This requirement has been relaxed in this release.
§ All functional testing and validation of the design is done using vSAN.
§ Although the VMware Validated Designs highly recommend the use of
vSAN, in particular for the management pods, any supported storage
solution may be used.
§ If a storage solution other than vSAN is selected:
§ You must appropriately adjust the design deployment and day-two
operations guidance under the context of vSAN.
§ The storage design must match or exceed the capacity and
performance capabilities of the vSAN configuration in the design.
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50%
100%
25%
75%
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50%
100%
25%
75%
vSAN
Datastore
Non-vSAN
Datastore

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L2 or L3 for Network Transport Services
§ The VMware Validated Designs now supports both L2 and L3 transport services.
§ For a scalable and vendor-neutral data center network, use an L3 transport.
§ When deciding to use L2 or L3, consider the following:
§ The NSX ECMP Edge devices establish L3 routing adjacency with the first upstream L3 device to provide equal
cost routing for management and workload virtual machine traffic.
§ The investment you have today in your current physical network infrastructure.
§ All design documentation is provided for an L3 transport. You must appropriately adjust the design deployment
and day-two operations guidance under the context of an L2 transport.
Minimal Design Requirements
§ One 10 GbE port on each ToR for host uplinks.
§ Host uplinks are not configured in an ether-channel (LAG/vPC)
§ Layer 3 device that supports BGP
§ IGMP support required by NSX Hybrid Mode

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L2 or L3 for Network Transport Services
Layer 2 Transport Layer 3 Transport

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Two Pod – Distributed Management and Workload
VMware Validated Design for SDDC
Existing Standard Architecture

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One Pod – Consolidated Management and Workload
§ Consolidates Management, Edge, and Workload into a single pod.
§ Requires only a minimum of 4 ESXi hosts
§ All functional testing and validation of the design is done using vSAN.
§ Any supported storage may be used. Adjust the operations guidance.
§ Network Transport
§ Supports both L2 and L3 transport services.
§ Scalable and vendor-neutral network, use an L3 transport.
§ Ready for Scale
§ Expandable to a 32 ESXi host pod.
§ SDDC solutions easily scale – deployed w/ native or NSX load balancing in place.
§ Transitions to Two-Pod Distributed Management and Workload (Standard)
§ Some downtime required during a transition.
§ Single Region and Single Availability Zone
§ License Flexibility for NSX (No Universal Objects)
External
Connection
WAN/LAN
New in Version 4.1

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Consolidated Management and Workload Cluster Design
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• The management virtual machines, NSX controllers and edges, and tenant
workloads run on the ESXi hosts in the consolidated cluster.
• The consolidated cluster design requires a minimum of 4 hosts:
• Three hosts are used to provide n+1 redundancy for the vSAN cluster.
• The fourth host is used to guarantee n+1 for vSAN redundancy during
maintenance operations.
• You can add ESXi hosts to the cluster as needed.
• NSX deploys 3 Controllers with anti-affinity rules. the forth host is used
to guarantee controller distribution across 3 hosts during maintenance operation.
• ESXi hosts are limited to 200 virtual machines when using vSAN.

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Consolidated Management and Workload
Logical and Physical Design of vRealize Operations Manager
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In the consolidated SDDC, you deploy a vRealize
Operations Manager configuration that consists of the
following entities.
• 1-node (medium-size) vRealize Operations Manager
analytics cluster. This topology provides the ability to
add high availability, scale-out capacity up to sixteen
nodes, and failover.
• 1 standard remote collector node. The remote
collectors communicate directly with the vRealize
Operations Manager analytics cluster. The design
uses remote collectors whose role is to ease
scalability by performing the data collection for
localized applications and periodically sending
collected data to the analytics cluster.

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Logical Design and Data Sources of vRealize Log Insight
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• In the Consolidated SDDC, deploy
a single vRealize Log Insight
instance that consists of a single
master node.
• This configuration allows for the
required functionality and the log
ingestion rates generated from the
management components

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Logical Design of vRealize Automation
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High-Level Deployment Architecture Objectives
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Two-Pod / Standard Architecture One-Pod / Consolidated Architecture
Minimum Hosts 8 4
Management VMs
420 GB vRAM,
2TB VSAN, 6 TB NFS
50% - 70% less
Recoverability Dual Region Single Region (DR to cloud)
Scale (VMs) Up to 10,000 Up to 1,500
Churn Medium (up to 150/hr) Low (up to 50/hr)
Availability 99% 95%
Modularity Foundation Cloud Operations Cloud Management Foundation Cloud Operations Cloud Management
Expansion options Additional Compute Pods (Up to 32 Hosts Each) Expand Pod to 32 Hosts or Grow to 2-Pod

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Licensing Options
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Two-Pod / Standard Architecture One-Pod / Consolidated Architecture
Individual
vSphere Enterprise +
vCenter Sever Standard
* vSAN Standard
NSX for vSphere Enterprise
vRealize Operations Advanced
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Automation Advanced
vRealize Business for Cloud Standard
Site Recovery Manager Enterprise (dual region)
vSphere Enterprise +
vCenter Server Standard
* vSAN Standard
NSX for vSphere Advanced
vRealize Operations Advanced
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Automation Advanced
vRealize Business for Cloud Standard
Bundling
vCloud Suite with vRealize Suite Advanced
* vSAN Standard
NSX for vSphere Enterprise
Site Recovery Manager Enterprise (dual region)
vCloud Suite with vRealize Suite Advanced
* vSAN Standard
NSX for vSphere Advanced
* Preferred storage option

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Management Packs and Content Packs
Now Included by default with product deployment.
§ Management Pack for vCenter Server
§ Management Pack for vRealize Log Insight
§ Management Pack for vSAN (New in v6.6)
§ Management Pack for vRealize Automation (New in v6.6)
§ Management Pack for vRealize Business for Cloud (New in v6.6)
Installed post-deployment.
§ Management Pack for NSX for vSphere
§ Management Pack for Storage Devices
Now Included by default with product deployment.
§ General
§ Content Pack for vSphere
§ Content Pack for vSAN (New in v4.5)
§ Content Pack for vRealize Operations
Installed post-deployment.
§ Content Pack for NSX for vSphere
§ Content Pack for vRealize Automation 7
§ Content Pack for vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1+
§ Content Pack for Linux (Added to the Architecture)
§ Content Pack for Microsoft SQL Server
vRealize Operations 6.6.1
Management Packs
vRealize Log Insight 4.5
Content Packs

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Embedded vRealize Orchestrator
Embedded in
vRealize Automation
Appliances

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Two-Layer Certificate Authority + Certificate Replacement
CertGenVVD tool saves you time when creating
signed certificates. See VMware Knowledge
Base article 2146215.
Certificate Mode
§ VMCA Hybrid Mode
§ All user-facing certificates are signed by a certificate
authority (CA).
§ All virtual infrastructure management components use
TLS/SSL certificates that are signed by the VMware
Certificate Authority (VMCA).
§ Now supports a Two-Layer CA environment.
Certificate Replacement
§ If the CA-signed certificates expire after you deploy
the SDDC, you must replace them individually on
each affected component.
§ Now provides guidance for replacing all CA-signed
certificates that are expiring. *
*Added Post-GA of 4.0

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Access the
Documentation
vmware.com/go/vvd-docs
Get Started
VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.1
Professional Services
vmware.com/go/services
Join the Community
vmware.com/go/vvd-community

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Additional Resources
What’s New in VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.1
Resource URL
Main Site vmware.com/go/vvd
Documentation vmware.com/go/vvd-docs
Poster vmware.com/go/vvd-sddc-poster
Community vmware.com/go/vvd-community
Videos and Demos vmware.com/go/vvd-videos
Certified Partner Architectures vmware.com/go/vvd-cpa
vExpert Slack vexpert.slack.com > #vvd
… and more! vmwa.re/vvd

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Thank You.

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