Support max up to 8 racks!(192 servers)

• When you add a new rack some redundant spine switch are added to interconnect racks.

Hosts:

• Min 4 hosts management
• Min 4 host infrastructure

Here are some information on the physical requirements for Cloud foundation:

• Redundant power
• 8 to 24 VSAN ready nodes
• Management switch
• 48 x 1GB
• Redundant Top-of-Rack switches
• 48 x10GB
• 4 x 40GB (2 to each switch)
• Redundant Spine switches (only require if more than 1 rack)
• Multi rack config
• 32 x 40Gbps

Network architecture:

• Automated installation and configuration of physical networking.
• Integrates with existing data center network infrastructure
• Uplink fully compatible to existing switches (Cisco, juniper)
• vMotion shared across all workload domains
• VXLAN shared across all workload domains
• Different VLANS for each network

Different VLANs created for each workload domain:

• Non-routable management VLAN
• Public management
• Corporate external
• VSAN
• vMotion
• VXLAN

Switch count for 1 rack?

• 1 x management switch
• 2 x top-of-rack switches

Switch count for 2 racks?

• 1 x management switch
• 2 x top-of-rack switches
• 2 x spine switches

VMware will also be providing a wire map for implementations.