Software-Defined Datacenter is latest buzz word and darling of lot of marketing folks around. However I have not seen a single place if someone wants to put together a demo lab setup to really asses how SDDC can be utilized for IT organization.
In this post, I want to show how you can build Software-Defined Datacenter(SDDC) demo lab. The goal is to give customer an understand of what SDDC technologies can do and how they can interplay. This is completely build on nested (ESXi Hosts running as VMs) environment for simplicity and quickness to demonstrate.
Software-defined.X is all about Management and Orchestration. It has nothing go to do replace Hardware. I hope you can get flavor from this series of posts.
There are many ways to setup SDDC technologies and with technologies from different vendors. This post will one way to do things. I intent to give a flavor of what can customer can get out of SDDC technologies.
Software Used
- vSphere ESXi 5.5 U2
- vSphere Virtual Center Server Appliance 5.5 U2 GA
- Virtual SAN 5 U2
- NSX 6.1
- vCloud Automation Center 6.1.0
- vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.2 (TBD)
- vSphere LogInsight (TBD)
- vCloud Operation Manager Suite 5.8.3 (TBD)
Hardware used
Dell Server PowerEdge T110II
- Intel Xeon® CPU E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10 GHz
- Memory: 32 GB
- Storage 2 TB Disk
- 1G NIC
I choose VMware software, because I m most familiar with them. As I said, there is no specific reason or limitation that any of above components can be replaced with different technology ( For example: VSAN with enterprise storage or NSX with different SDN etc).
THESE STEPS ARE FOR DEMO PURPOSE. NOT INTENDED FOR PRODUCTION. These STEPS have been performed without any VALIDATION. ALSO THIS MAY NOT BE SUPPORTED CONFIGURATION from vendors.
Management Setup (VCAC)
To be continued...
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