Planning for VMware Regulated Workloads
Review the following requirements before you order your VMware® Regulated Workloads instance. Plan your instance based on the IBM Cloud® data center location, your capacity requirements, and services requirements.
Account requirements
The account that you are using must meet certain requirements. For more information, see Signing up for required accounts.
IBM Cloud data center availability
The VMware Regulated Workloads deployment has strict requirements on the physical infrastructure. Therefore, you can deploy instances only in IBM Cloud data centers that meet the requirements.
Data centers available for single-zone deployment
The following IBM Cloud data centers are available for VMware Regulated Workloads single-zone deployment.
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
CHE01 | 01 |
OSA21 | 01 |
OSA22 | 01 |
OSA23 | 01 |
SNG01 | 02 |
SYD01 | 01-02 |
SYD04 | 01 |
SYD05 | 01 |
TOK02 | 01-02 |
TOK04 | 01 |
TOK05 | 01 |
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
AMS03 | 01-02 |
FRA02 | 01-03 |
FRA04 | 01 |
FRA05 | 01 |
LON02 | 01-02 |
LON04 | 01 |
LON05 | 01 |
LON06 | 01 |
MAD02 | 01 |
MAD04 | 01 |
MAD05 | 01 |
MIL01 | 01 |
PAR01 | 01 |
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
MON01 | 01-02 |
TOR01 | 01-02 |
TOR04 | 01 |
TOR05 | 01 |
WDC04 | 01-05 |
WDC06 | 01 |
WDC07 | 01 |
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
DAL09 | 01-06 |
DAL10 | 01-04 |
DAL12 | 01-02 |
DAL13 | 01-03 |
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
SJC03 | 01-02 |
SJC04 | 01 |
Data center | Pod |
---|---|
SAO01 | 01 |
SAO04 | 01 |
SAO05 | 01 |
Services for VMware Regulated Workloads
The following services are required for VMware Regulated Workloads:
The following services are included with VMware Regulated Workloads:
- Veeam Backup and Replication
- Caveonix RiskForesight
- Juniper vSRX. This service is included when you choose Gateway cluster with Juniper vSRX.
- VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs
The following services are optional for VMware Regulated Workloads: