Planning for VMware vSphere
Review the following requirements before you order a VMware vSphere® instance. Plan your VMware vSphere based on the IBM Cloud® data center location and your workload capacity requirements.
You are responsible for setting up the environment, installing, and configuring various VMware® components after the VMware ESXi™ servers are deployed. The following examples are VMware components: VMware vCenter Server®, VMware NSX®, and VMware vSAN™.
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 vSphere deployment has strict requirements on the physical infrastructure. Therefore, you can deploy instances only in IBM Cloud data centers that meet the requirements. The following IBM Cloud data centers are available for vSphere deployment.
Cascade Lake bare metal servers are available in multizone regionA region that is spread across data centers in multiple zones to increase fault tolerance. IBM Cloud data centers. For more information, see Multizone region (MZR) overview.
If you select a vSAN component, the location list is filtered by SSD (Solid-State Disk) availability.
| Data center | Pod | Server options[1] |
|---|---|---|
| CHE01 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| OSA21 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| OSA22 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| OSA23 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SNG01 | 02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SYD01 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SYD04 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SYD05 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| TOK02 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| TOK04 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| TOK05 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| Data center | Pod | Server options[2] |
|---|---|---|
| AMS03 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| FRA02 | 01-03 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| FRA04 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| FRA05 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| LON02 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| LON04 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| LON05 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| LON06 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| MAD02 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| MAD04 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| MAD05 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| MIL01 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| PAR01 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| Data center | Pod | Server options[3] |
|---|---|---|
| MON01 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| TOR01 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| TOR04 | 01 | Cascade Lake |
| TOR05 | 01 | Cascade Lake |
| WDC04 | 01-05 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| WDC06 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| WDC07 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| Data center | Pod | Server options[4] |
|---|---|---|
| DAL09 | 01-06 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| DAL10 | 01-04 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| DAL12 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| DAL13 | 01-03 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| Data center | Pod | Server options[5] |
|---|---|---|
| SJC03 | 01-02 | Skylake, Cascade Lake |
| SJC04 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake |
| Data center | Pod | Server options[6] |
|---|---|---|
| SAO01 | 01 | Skylake, Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SAO04 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |
| SAO05 | 01 | Cascade Lake, SAP-certified Cascade Lake |