VMware Cloud Foundation - Overview & How To - Home Data Center

VMware Cloud Foundation - Episode #1 Hosted in my Home Data Center!

This video will go over and create many common compoenents within a VCF / SDDC / NSX Envinronment. More videos coming soon, they will get into the deeper topics of VCF!

0:35 - VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
1:33 - VMware Cloud Builder
5:27 - VMware SDDC Manager UI
9:45 - SDDC Password Managment Utility & Lookup_Passwords CLI
11:43 - VMware vCenter UI - Workload Domains
12:24 - Dell PowerEdge R750 UI - Showing resource usage and overview
13:21 - NSX Edge Nodes Info
13:43 - NSX Data Center Overview
16:01 - NSX Creating Tier-1 Gateway
17:23 - NSX Creating Segment (Overlay)
18:45 - NSX Segment Overview & Deepdive
20:22 - Adding a VM to the new NSX Segment
21:03 - NSX Network Toplogy
21:30 - NSX Services, DNS, NAT, etc

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ABOUT MY LAB

All-Flash vSAN Cluster (3 DellEMC PowerEdge R730XDs)

Dell PowerEdge R730XD – Production Host
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (512GB RAM) – 7TB Total vSAN Storage
VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s

Dell PowerEdge R730XD – Production Host
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (512GB RAM) – 7TB Total vSAN Storage
VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s

Dell PowerEdge R730XD – Production Host
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (512GB RAM) – 7TB Total vSAN Storage
VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s

Dell PowerEdge R740 – Production VDI Host
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 @ 2.30GHz (256GB RAM) – 2TB Total SSD Storage
VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
NVIDA Tesla M60
Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s

Dell PowerEdge R740 – Production Archive DR Node
1 x Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 @ 1.70GHz (32RAM) – 50TB Total Storage
TrueNAS Scale
Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)

Dell PowerEdge R740XD – Storage Server
1 x Intel Scalable Bronze 6 Core – 32GB RAM – 95TB Storage ( iSCSI, NFS, SMB)
Dual Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (80Gb/s Backbone for NAS/SAN)
Infrastructure
1 x pfSense Firewall (Dell PowerEdge R330)
1 x Arista DCS-7050QX-32-F-S 32x QSFP+ (Core Switch)
1 x Arista DCS-7050QX-35-F 40GbE Switch (Secondary Switch)
1 x Cisco Catalyst C3750X PoE+
1 x Cisco Catalyst C3650-24-PS PoE+
1 x APC Netshelter 48U SX (Dell)
Network Backbone Specs
Quad 40Gb/s QSFP+ Backbone for Management and vSAN
Quad 10Gb/s SFP+ Backbone for iSCSI Storage