Skip to main content

Creating a Private Cloud in VMM Overview



A private cloud is a cloud that is provisioned and managed on-premise by an organization. The private cloud is deployed using an organization’s own hardware to leverage the advantages of the private cloud model. Through VMM, an organization can manage the private cloud definition, access to the private cloud, and the underlying physical resources.

In VMM, a private cloud provides the following benefits:
Self service. Administrators can delegate management and usage of the private cloud while retaining the opaque usage model. Self-service users do not need to ask the private cloud provider for administrative changes beyond increasing capacity and quotas as their needs change.


Resource pooling. Through the private cloud, administrators can collect and present an aggregate set of resources, such as storage and networking resources. Resource usage is limited by the capacity of the private cloud and by user role quotas.


Opacity. Self-service users have no knowledge of the underlying physical resources.


Elasticity. Administrators can add resources to a private cloud to increase the capacity.


Optimization. Usage of the underlying resources is continually optimized without affecting the overall private cloud user experience.



You can create a private cloud from either of the following sources:
Host groups that contain resources from Hyper-V hosts, VMware ESX hosts and Citrix XenServer hosts


A VMware resource pool



During private cloud creation, you select the underlying fabric resources that will be available in the private cloud, configure library paths for private cloud users, and set the capacity for the private cloud. Therefore, before you create a private cloud, you should configure the fabric resources, such as storage, networking, library servers and shares, host groups, and hosts. For information about how to configure the fabric and add hosts to VMM management, see the following sections:

Example Scenario Overview


In the example scenarios, a private cloud that is named Finance is created from resources in configured host groups. A private cloud that is named Marketing is created from a VMware resource pool.
Private CloudResource
Finance
(Private cloud created from host groups)
Host groups: Seattle\Tier0_SEA, Seattle\Tier1_SEA, New York\Tier0_NY, New York\Tier1_NY
Logical network: BACKEND
Load balancer: LoadBalancer01.contoso.com
VIP profile: Web tier (HTTPS traffic)
Storage classification: GOLD and SILVER
Read-only library shares: SEALibrary and NYLibrary
Stored virtual machine path: VMMServer01\Finance\StoredVMs
Capability profile: Hyper-V
Marketing
(Private cloud created from a VMware resource pool)
VMware resource pool: Resource pool 1
Logical network: BACKEND
Load balancer: LoadBalancer01.contoso.com
VIP profile: Web tier (HTTPS traffic)
Read-only library shares: SEALibrary and NYLibrary
Stored virtual machine path: VMMServer01\Marketing\StoredVMs
Capability profile: ESX Server

Popular posts from this blog

Fixing Tanzu Kubernetes Pod to External Services Connectivity Issues with NSX-T

Fixing Tanzu Kubernetes Pod to External Services Connectivity Issues with NSX-T Last month I got a call from a customer who was pulling their hair out over a networking issue. They had just deployed VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on their vSphere with Tanzu environment, everything looked good in the dashboards, all pods were running, but their applications inside the pods could not reach external databases running on traditional VMs in the same datacenter. The frustrating part was that some pods could reach external services perfectly fine, while others would just timeout. There was no clear pattern. Let me tell you how we figured this out and fixed it. The Initial Problem Here is what the customer setup looked like: vSphere 8.0 with Tanzu enabled NSX-T 4.1.2 for networking Three Tanzu Kubernetes clusters running different microservices applications External PostgreSQL database running on traditional VMs (non-Kubernetes) External API services running on another se...
Read more

AD LDS – Syncronizing AD LDS with Active Directory

First, we will install the AD LDS Instance: 1. Create and AD LDS instance by clicking Start -> Administrative Tools -> Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard appears. 2. Click Next . The Setup Options dialog box appears. For the sake of this guide, a unique instance will be the primary focus. I will have a separate post regarding AD LDS replication at some point in the near future. 3. Select A unique instance . 4. Click Next and the Instance Name dialog box appears. The instance name will help you identify and differentiate it from other instances that you may have installed on the same end point. The instance name will be listed in the data directory for the instance as well as in the Add or Remove Programs snap-in. 5. Enter a unique instance name, for example IDG. 6. Click Next to display the Ports configuration dialog box. 7. Leave ports at their default values unless you have conflicts with the default values. 8. Click N...
Read more

Troubleshooting vSAN Storage Policy Migration Failures in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

Recently I had a customer who migrated their VMware infrastructure from vSphere 7.0 to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. After the migration, they wanted to update their vSAN storage policies to take advantage of the new vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture) features. However, when they tried to change the storage policy for their production VMs, the operation kept failing with a cryptic error message. The error they were getting was: "Cannot complete operation due to insufficient resources to satisfy current storage policy." This was strange because they had plenty of disk space available. The vSAN cluster was only at 45% capacity, and all the hosts were healthy. Let me walk through how we troubleshooted and fixed this issue. Understanding the Problem First, let's understand what was happening in their environment: They had a 6-node vSAN cluster running VCF 9.0 vSAN was configured with the new ESA architecture They were trying to migrate VMs fro...
Read more