We are setting up a small private cloud. I would like to speak further about my setup and was hoping you could give a little guidance on design. We are planning on using ESX with VCloud Director. Basically we are going to have the following equipment:
(3) Dell PowerEdge R620 Servers (((x2) Intel Xeon E5-2690 2.9GHz, 256GB Memory w/ (x4) Brocade 10GbE)
(1) Dell Equallogic PS 6110X 28.8TB – Primary VM Hosting
(1) Dell Equallogic PS6110E 96TB – Backup Storage
(2) Brocade VDX 6740-24 Port Ethernet Fabric Switches – For iSCSI Connectivity / Collapsed Core
(2) Dell SonicWALL NSA 4600 Firewalls - 1 Primary / 1 HA
Basically, we are a VMWare VSPP which is VCloud Service Provider and we are going to be using the VCloud Service Provider Bundle Premier which includes:
VMware vCloud® Service Provider Bundle - Premier: The VMware vCloud Premier Service Provider Bundle provides the key components required to deliver an enterprise-class, Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Components include: vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter Server Standard, vCloud Director (which includes vShield for vCloud Director), vCenter Chargeback, vCloud Networking and Security, vCloud Connector, vCloud Usage Meter and Production Support.
Our primary goal is to create a small private cloud which will enable us to host server VM’s for our customers and some new clients, host VDI, and act as an offsite Veeam replication target. What I would like to discuss with you is how you feel using the equipment that we are starting off with and the software licensing options available to us that I mentioned above, what you feel would be the best way for us to architect our setup and network and VCloud.
We have a pretty good idea for right now but we would love to see what peoples thoughts are.
Thanks!