Comprehensive and extensively tested blueprints to build and operate a Software-Defined Data Center

The VMware Validated Designs provide comprehensive and extensively-tested blueprints to build and operate a Software-Defined Data Center.

With the VMware Validated Designs, VMware delivers holistic data center-level to deploy and configure the complete VMware SDDC in a wide range of use cases with detailed guidance on how to operate efficiently.

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What is a VMware Validated Design?

Introduction to VMware Validated Designs.

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What’s New in the VMware Validated Designs?

VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.2
- Provides an updated Software Bill of Materials (BOM) with guidance to upgrade from VMware Validated Design 4.1.
- Introduces guidance for implementing a dual-region SDDC with multiple availability zones. Availability zones enhance resiliency of the SDDC by establishing separate fault domains within the protected region and leveraging vSAN stretched clustering to distribute workloads and protect against data loss in the event of a zone outage.
- Includes an updated naming scheme for workload domains and tenant accounts along with an improved SDDC deployment order. Monitoring capabilities of the SDDC are now deployed earlier, ensuring the SDDC operations and monitoring tools can be more effectively used during later stages of the deployment.
- Customers who are looking to build a complete SDDC on the #1 HCI platform can now use VxRail as a building block and the guidance of VMware Validated Designs 4.2 to more easily and safely architect an SDDC with complete NSX and vRealize functionality.

VMware Validated Designs Deliver:

Accelerate Time to Market

Following a VMware Validated Design streamlines and simplifies the usually complex design process of the SDDC, shortening the deployment and provisioning cycles.

De-risk Deployments and Operations

Rigorously tested and continuously validated, the VMware Validated Designs reduce uncertainty and potential risks associated with implementing and operating the SDDC by ensuring interoperability and compatibility of all software components included in the design.

Increase Efficiency

A VMware Validated Design provides detailed, step-by-step operational guidance to greatly reduce time and effort spent on tasks such as setting up monitoring and alerts, developing backup and restore procedures and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Drive IT Agility

The VMware Validated Designs are designed for scalability and to support a broad set of use-cases and diverse types of applications, helping IT to respond faster to the needs of the business.

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FEATURES

Standardized, Data Center-Level Designs

A VMware Validated Designs defines a standardized, scalable architecture design comprehensively tested for integration and interoperability among all the software components defined in the bill of materials.

Proven and Robust Designs

Each design is developed by experts and rigorously tested and validated to provide successful deployment and efficient operations. Continuous interoperability testing helps a VMware Validated Design stay valid as subsequent versions of components are released.

Applicable to a Broad Set of Use Cases

The VMware Validated Designs are available in a variety of use cases – SDDC, Micro-segmentation, IT Automating IT, Intelligent Operations, ROBO – and provide the guidance to achieve a wide variety of desired IT outcomes delivered by the SDDC, such as app security, IT automation, monitoring and alerting, high availability, disaster recovery, etc.

Comprehensive Documentation

The VMware Validated Designs are captured in a comprehensive set of documents that describe the software bill of materials, the fundamentals of the architecture design and the best practices on how to deploy, integrate and operate the SDDC.

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How to Implement

Free Public Documentation

For customer interested in implementing the VMware SDDC with in-house skillset, the VMware Validated Designs are available as free public documentation.

Documentation in a VMware Validated Design includes: Release Notes, Introduction Guide, Architecture and Design, Planning and Preparation, Deployment and Operations Documentation

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VMware Professional Services

VMware Professional Services delivers the right expertise and collaboration for a rapid implementation of your SDDC architecture based on the VMware Validated Designs.

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Certified Partner Architecture

VMware is partnering with the most prestigious System Integrators to provide access to VMware Validated Designs.

The Certified Partner Architecture program certifies SDDC architectures available from VMware Partners to ensure that they comply with the guidance established by the VMware Validated Design for SDDC.

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