Mastering VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture: A Beginner's Guide to Building Your Own Cloud

[@cman3893]

Great content, knowledge and presentation

[@LAB2PROD]

Thank you!

[@wanderlustit5415]

Tese VCF video are golden. I am working to put VCF under my belt and these videos are awesome.

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, I'm glad you've found them useful!

[@woohhaa]

This video was very helpful, I will be watching the rest of the series!

[@LAB2PROD]

Thank you, appreciate the feedback and that you found it useful :)

[@huthaifashaker9103]

Perfect Info let's add a quick Lab demo this will help for sure!

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, lab demo's coming right up!

[@TheRealM_A]

Thank you for the Video - its great High level overview! Cheers

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, glad you found it useful!

[@TheRealM_A]

@@LAB2PROD - This is on point, I've built Large scale VCF deployment previously! Watched for quick refresher.

[@LAB2PROD]

Glad to see that it's held up the test of time and deployments. Keen to hear your experiences, feel free to shoot an email to [e-mail] if you want to share :)

[@toraees]

Hello Shank, thank you very much for helping the community. Although I am new to VMware, I keep following your posts and I am glad you are doing videos now :)

[@LAB2PROD]

As long as you find the content useful, that keeps me going! Thanks for letting me know :)

[@johnjames7332]

Awesome. Thanks so much for this video mate.

[@LAB2PROD]

No worries, glad you enjoyed it!

[@peterst6906]

Good video mate. Clear and well explained.

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks mate, good to see you still learning :D

[@deepakveda3881]

Thanks, very good explanation🙏

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@mubashir1976]

Good work !!

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@MrArielAntigua]

Thank you! keep the great videos coming!

[@LAB2PROD]

My pleasure and will do, glad you liked it!

[@shaunanderson2973]

Great videos. Concise but with clear information in them. Keep it going!

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

[@csalinas2008]

Muy buen video...muchas gracias...

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@MrNapster9999]

Good job

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

[@ericlambert79]

Good introduction, looking forward for more content. One thing to adjust would be that if you’re doing stretch cluster your management workload domain must also be stretched.

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, just wanted to note, that if you stretch your management domain, it's not mandatory that you stretch a workload domain. I think this is what you meant?

[@ericlambert79]

@@LAB2PROD correct stretching management doesn’t force you to stretch workload domains but stretching a workload domains means that you must have a stretch management. At 12:24 your slide has a region 1 VCF workload domain that’s stretched across AZ1 and AZ2 but management domain isn’t stretch.

[@LAB2PROD]

Understood, thanks for clarifying, i'll re-iterate when it comes to the demo :)

[@sebastianantunezn.1667]

Hello, Your videos and explanations are very interesting. You will have a VCF Stretched Cluster configuration video,

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks! Got your email and you now have the information you need 😁

[@212helpdesk]

I have the VM Advantage subscription BUT I'm not sure if it will include the 4 host licenses required to run/ install VCF. A lot to think about but I need to start somewhere. My employer has been pressuring me for this.

[@LAB2PROD]

Agree, get started and work it out along the way!

[@EirikVada]

Good content Shank. From a VMware perspective though, I think it would be nice to cover more around the active/passive, active/active topologies. Often we see stretched clusters as typical active/active designs (because of synchronous replication) and seperate clusters as active/passive with the use of software replication (such as vSphere Replication) for recovery. You're not wrong in your presentation as you focused on the application side, but I would personally highlight the other infrastructure designs as well.

[@LAB2PROD]

Good point, in typical VCF architecture/ deployment, the 'general' approach is to use vSAN for principal storage. When doing so, the approaches I covered are required. Note I mentioned generally recommended to run active - passive for resource preservation, not that it's the only mode available. But you're right, there are more options 🙂! I'll aim to discuss them in more detail In future videos. Thanks for highlighting this! Also should mention, after numerous design workshops with lots of customers and also internal discussions, the general consensus is a push to have app layer resiliency, rather than relying on the Infrastructure to maintain availability. In some cases it's a future state, want to get there conversation and still need the infrastructure to provide that functionality.

[@mukeshsundrani1462]

Good work buddy, See if you can make more videos series on designing with all available options in details. probably separate videos on each use case. example - multisite- has few use cases. federation may have another set of use cases

[@LAB2PROD]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do!