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Adding capacity to single-tenant Cloud Director sites with VCDA

Adding capacity to single-tenant Cloud Director sites with VCDA

After your IBM Cloud® for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service Cloud Director site instance order is complete, use VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) to configure your instance capacity. Determine the amount of capacity based on how many virtual machines (VMs) you plan to migrate or protect.

Select from the following estimated capacity resource options that are required for your resource pool to migrate or protect your VMs. Each resource is per instance.

VCDA resources can include the VCDA Manager VM, Tunnel VM, and Replicator VMs. Resources are deployed into the workload resource pool and use RAM and CPU from the resource pools in each zone for the site.

When you select and apply a resource configuration, you can upgrade only to a greater configuration.

Options for estimated migration or replication capacity
Number of VMs Number of replicators per instance RAM per instance CPU per instance
0 - 750 1 16 GB 14 vCPU
750 - 1500 2 24 GB 22 vCPU
1500 - 5000 6 56 GB 54 vCPU
5000 - 10000 12 104 GB 102 vCPU

Procedure to configure your VMware Cloud Director instance capacity

Use the Migration and protection estimated capacity section for both migration and protection destination configurations.

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation panel.
  2. On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service page, click the single-tenant Cloud Director site name.
  3. Click the Add-on services tab, then expand the VMware Cloud Director Availability service.
  4. In the Migration and protection estimated capacity section, click Edit capacity.
  5. Select a resource configuration.
  6. Click Apply.