Another vCloud Architecture Toolkit whitepaper that I authored was published on the vCAT SP website – it discusses how to architect vCloud Availability solution in large production scenarios.
It is based on real live deployments and includes the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Use Cases
- Disaster Recovery
- Migration
- vCloud Availability Architecture Design Overview
- vCloud Availability Architecture
- Network Flows
- Conceptual Architecture
- vCloud Availability Management Components
- Logical Architecture
- vCloud Availability Portal
- Cloud Proxy
- RabbitMQ
- Cassandra Database
- VMware Platform Services Controller
- vSphere Replication Cloud Service
- vSphere Replication Manager
- vSphere Replication Servers
- ESXi Hosts
- vCloud Availability Metering
- vRealize Orchestrator
- Management Component Resiliency Considerations
- vCloud Director Configuration
- User Roles
- Tenant Limits and Leases
- Organization Virtual Data Center
- Network Management
- Storage Management
- vApps and Virtual Machines
- Billing
- vRealize Orchestrator Configuration
- On-Premises Deployment
- In-the-Cloud Deployment
- Provider Deployment
- Failover Orchestration
- Monitoring
- Component Monitoring
- VM Replication Monitoring
- Backup Strategy
- Appendix A – Port Requirements / Firewall Rules
- Appendix B – Glossary
- Appendix C – Maximums
- Appendix D – Reference Documents
- Appendix E – Tenant API Structure
- Appendix F – Undocumented HybridSettings vCloud API
- Appendix G – Monitoring
Download from the vCAT-SP website: https://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/vcat-sp.html or direct link to pdf.
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The PDF states that this will only protect running VMs and that something like vCloud Connector should be used to protect templates / powered off VMs, does the vCC work with 8.20 / vSphere 6.5 / NSX 6.3? – Dev work looks to be stopped with it, which is a shame as customers liked being able to connect On-Premises vSphere to the Cloud, single pane of glass and so on.
Yes, vCC 2.7.2 works with VCD 8.10/8.20. The server UI will not work with vSphere 6.5 as it requires vSphere Client (.NET) but you can use this workaround: https://fojta.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/vcloud-connector-public-cloud-transfers-with-no-private-vsphere-environment/