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VCF for VPC BOM

VCF for VPC BOM

Review the Bill of Materials (BOM) information for VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC instances.

VPC Infrastructure BOM for VCF for VPC

Review the BOM information for Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (IBM Cloud VPC).

BOM for IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure in VCF for VPC instances
Type Details
Bare Metal Servers Provides compute capacity for a minimum of 4 hosts for the consolidated architecture.
VLANs Assigned to physical VMware ESXi servers for traffic of VMware vSphere management, VMware vSAN, vSphere vMotion, and VMware NSX TEP.
Subnets Created for vSphere management traffic, vSAN, vSphere vMotion, NSX TEP, and NSX-T Tier-0 Gateway.
Security Groups To create logical groups and apply rules to traffic of vSphere management, vSAN, vSphere vMotion, and NSX TEP.
Virtual Server Instances Optional. Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (AMD64), 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and a bandwidth cap of 4 Gbps.

Software BOM for VCF for VPC

Review the BOM information for VCF for VPC software components.

BOM for software components in VCF for VPC instances
Component Version Build number
Cloud Builder VM 5.2.1 24307856
SDDC Manager 5.2.1 24307856
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 8.0 Update 3c 24305161
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3b 24280767
VMware Virtual SAN Witness Appliance 8.0 Update 3b 24280767
VMware NSX-T 4.2.1 24304122
VMware Aria® Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 24029603

If you are provisioning VMware Aria® Suite components with Lifecycle Manager, see VMware Product Interoperability Matrix for detailed product and version support information for the specific Aria Suite components that you need. For more information, see Deploying VMware validated solutions.

Network MTU configuration settings

The vSphere cluster has a single vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) for public and for private network connectivity.

The private network connections are configured to use Jumbo Frames MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) with a size of 9000 (when applicable), which improves performance for large data transfers such as storage and vMotion. This value is the maximum MTU allowed within VMware and by IBM Cloud.

The public network connections use a standard Ethernet MTU of 1500, which must be maintained. Any changes might cause packet fragmentation over the internet.

Review the following table for an overview of the Network MTU configuration settings that are applied to the Virtual Distributed Switch, VMkernel adapters, and NSX Tier 0 uplinks.

MTU configuration settings for VCF for VPC
Configuration setting Value
Virtual Distributed Switch 9000 (Jumbo Frames)
VMkernel adapters for management 1500 (Default)
VMkernel adapters for VSAN 9000 (Jumbo Frames)
VMkernel adapters for vMotion 9000 (Jumbo Frames)
VMkernel adapters for TEP traffic 9000 (Jumbo Frames)
Tier 0 private uplinks 9000 (Jumbo Frames)
Tier 0 public uplinks 1500 (Default)

NSX Global Gateway Configuration is set to MTU of 1500 for the router links and interfaces at the overlay.