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Planning for VMware Regulated Workloads

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.

Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - Asia-Pacific
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
Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - Europe
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
Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - NA East
Data center Pod
MON01 01-02
TOR01 01-02
TOR04 01
TOR05 01
WDC04 01-05
WDC06 01
WDC07 01
Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - NA South
Data center Pod
DAL09 01-06
DAL10 01-04
DAL12 01-02
DAL13 01-03
Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - NA West
Data center Pod
SJC03 01-02
SJC04 01
Table 1. Available IBM Cloud data centers for Regulated Workloads single-zone - South America
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:

The following services are optional for VMware Regulated Workloads: