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Ordering Cloud Director site instances

Ordering Cloud Director site instances

You can create an IBM Cloud® for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service single-tenant Cloud Director site from the VMware Solutions user interface. First, review the minimum requirements.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a Service multitenant Cloud Director site instances are ordered and managed by IBM®. For more information, see Planning the deployment.

Billing details

Billing details
Feature Billing model
Single-tenant host profiles
  • Hosts are billed monthly.
  • Hosts that you order after the first day of the month are prorated for the first month.
  • Hosts that are removed during the month are charged for the full month that they are removed.
  • Each host is treated individually. For example, when you remove a host then add a host, the bill reflects two hosts for that month.
Single-tenant shared storage
  • Shared storage is billed monthly.
  • Storage that is ordered after the first day of the month is prorated for the first month.
  • Storage that is removed during the month is charged for the full month that it is removed.
  • Each storage change is treated individually. For example, when you remove storage then add storage, the bill reflects both storages for that month.
Single-tenant edge storage
  • Edge storage is billed monthly.
  • Edges that are ordered after the first day of the month are prorated for the first month.
  • Edges that are removed during the month are charged for the full month that they are removed.
  • Each edge change is treated individually. For example, when you remove an edge then add an edge, the bill reflects both edges for that month.
  • For an efficiency edge, one edge instance is used with 1-64 VRF (virtual edges). One efficiency edge can support up to 64 virtual data centers (VDCs) until the next edge instance is deployed. When an efficiency edge reaches attachment of zero VDCs the efficiency edge is removed.

Minimum requirements for VCF as a Service instances

Minimum 2 servers (7 servers for vSAN™ profiles)

  • 2 hosts (2-socket 32 cores, 192 GB RAM)
  • 24 TB of shared storage
  • Minimum of 1 VDC with a medium performance edge

Name requirements

The Cloud Director site infrastructure names are set by default, where xx represents two randomly generated alphabetic characters.

  • The Cloud Director site name is set to inst-xx.
  • The resource pool is set to rp-xx.
  • The cluster name is set to cluster-xx.

You can specify a name that meets the following requirements:

  • The maximum length is 50 characters.
  • The name must start with an alphabetic character.
  • Only alphanumeric, dash (-), underscore (_), and space characters are allowed.
  • The name must be unique within all active names in your account. You can reuse a name that is previously deleted.

Procedure to order VCF as a Service Cloud Director site instances

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service card.

  2. On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service order page, click the Single-tenant Cloud Director site card.

  3. Specify the Cloud Director site name and select a resource group.

    If No resource group available is displayed, you currently do not have the permission to add VDCs to any resource group in this account. Contact the account owner to assign the Editor or Administrator role on a resource group in the account. For more information, see IBM IAM roles.

  4. Select the Cloud Director geography and region.

  5. Specify the settings for the resource pool.

    1. Specify the resource pool name.
    2. Select the resource pool location.
    3. Optionally enable SAP®-certified server profiles and select the profile type.

  6. Specify the settings for the cluster.

    1. Specify the cluster name.
    2. Select the profile storage type.
    3. Select the host profile.
    4. Select the host quantity.
      • For NFS only storage, select a minimum of 2.
      • For vSAN storage, select a minimum of 7.
    5. For vSAN, optionally select the Enable vSAN de-duplication & compression checkbox to save storage space.
    6. Select the sizings for one or more IOPS/GB performance tiers for attached NFS storage.

  7. Specify the network connectivity settings.

    • Complete the following steps for management connectivity.
      1. Select either public-only or private-only networking.
      2. For private-only, click Add new + and enter the subnet value. Then, click the Save icon. Repeat for all of the subnets that you want to add.
    • For workload connectivity, select either public and private networking or private-only networking.

  8. Review the add-on service options to deploy the Veeam® Backup and Replication service and the VMware Cloud Director Availability service. Toggle the service off if you do not want to include it in your order.

  9. On the Summary pane, review the instance settings and the estimated price.

  10. To place the order, ensure that the account to be charged is correct, review and accept the terms, and then click Create.