VMware Cloud on AWS: SDDC Design Considerations
Gilles Chekroun
Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Specialist
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With the recent August 2019 release of VMware Cloud on AWS 1.8, a few interesting improvements are now available concerning the vSAN and Elastic vSAN storage capabilities.
The goal of this blog article is to recap the different options around SDDC design and specifically about stretched and non-stretched clusters.
Other instances in specific areas like GPU or high memory will come later.
Elastic vSAN builds on automated provisioning and management of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. R5.metal hosts and Elastic vSAN solution is currently available in Oregon, N. Virginia, Ohio and Frankfurt regions.
You can have multiple i3 stretched clusters per SDDC
You can mix i3 and R5 stretched clusters
You can NOT mix stretched and non-stretched in the same SDDC
No migration from stretched to non-stretched or vice-versa is possible today. A new SDDC will be needed.
Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Specialist
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With the recent August 2019 release of VMware Cloud on AWS 1.8, a few interesting improvements are now available concerning the vSAN and Elastic vSAN storage capabilities.
The goal of this blog article is to recap the different options around SDDC design and specifically about stretched and non-stretched clusters.
AWS EC2 Bare metal Instances
As of now, the VMware Cloud on AWS Service is available with two types of EC2 bare metal instances from AWS:i3.metal | R5.metal | |
The AWS i3.metal specs are: |
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AWS R5.metal specs are:
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- Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors | - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8000 Series (Skylake-SP) | |
- 36 cores | - 48 cores | |
- 2.3 GHz | - 2.5 GHz | |
- 512 GiB RAM | - 768 GiB RAM | |
- 15TB NVMe flash | - EBS Storage only (15-35 TB) | |
- 25 Gbps Networking | - 14 Gbps EBS Bandwidth | |
- 25 Gbps Networking |
Other instances in specific areas like GPU or high memory will come later.
Elastic vSAN
Elastic vSAN, with R5.metal hosts, is a VMware Cloud on AWS cluster type that gives you a choice of storage capacity options ranging from 15TiB to 35TiB per host, in increments of 5TiB. This cluster type is suitable for workloads that require high storage capacity.Elastic vSAN builds on automated provisioning and management of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. R5.metal hosts and Elastic vSAN solution is currently available in Oregon, N. Virginia, Ohio and Frankfurt regions.
Multi-Availability Zones Stretched Cluster
This feature enables customers to deploy a single SDDC across two AWS Availability Zones to support critical applications that require high availability in the event of an AZ failure. In a Multi-AZ Stretched Cluster, vSAN guarantees synchronous writes across two AZs and logical networks extend to support vMotion between AZs. In the event of an AZ failure, vSphere HA attempts to restart VMs in the surviving AZ. Customers can choose a stretched cluster configuration at SDDC creation time and are limited to a single cluster.SDDC Design Considerations
As of SDDC rel. 1.8 the following rules need to be appliedWith Stretched Clusters
You can have multiple R5 stretched clusters per SDCCYou can have multiple i3 stretched clusters per SDDC
You can mix i3 and R5 stretched clusters
You can NOT mix stretched and non-stretched in the same SDDC
With Non Stretched Clusters
You can mix i3 and R5 clusters.No migration from stretched to non-stretched or vice-versa is possible today. A new SDDC will be needed.
Option 1 - R5 Stretched Clusters
SDDC rel 1.8 and up; 8+8 nodes per cluster across 2 AZs; 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
Option 2 - R5 non stretched Clusters
16 nodes per Cluster over one AZ; 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
Option 3 - i3 stretched Clusters
8+8 nodes per cluster across 2 AZs; 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
Option 4 - i3 non stretched Cluster
16 nodes per Cluster over one AZ; 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
Option 5 - Mix of i3 and R5 non stretched clusters
16 nodes per Cluster over one AZ; variable storage according to the mix of i3 and R5; Production on i3, dev-test on R5; easy migration of workloads from cluster to cluster (networks are stretched always); 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
Option 6 - Mix i3 and R5 stretched Clusters
SDDC rel 1.8 and up; 8+8 nodes per cluster across 2 AZs; 20 clusters max; 300 nodes max;
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