Deployment Guide

Executive summary
4 Scaling VCF Domains Beyond a Single MX7000 Chassis | Document ID
Executive summary
Business IT departments are challenged to design and deploy private cloud infrastructure in an ever-
expanding environment. New compute, and storage resources are needed to process and store the increase
of acquired data. IT departments can struggle to scale the compute, storage, and networking resources that
are needed to meet their business needs. The Hyper Converged Infrastructure was introduced help meet
these needs, but even the HCI depends on the hardware and management platform on which it is deployed.
HCI has evolved into the SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) and the problems of deploying an SDDC are
met by VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation).
How quickly and consistently IT departments can deploy and scale their SDDC is mission critical. How
efficiently can they leverage their often-limited physical space, cooling and electrical resources. How
efficiently can they add new resources to existing, deployed resources that can augment those capabilities or
add new resources with new capabilities?
The Dell Technologies PowerEdge MX platform offers the capabilities, flexibility, and manageability to quickly
and efficiently scale your SDDC. Still, the ease of scalability requires forethought and understanding of the
hardware capabilities. The expected, and often unexpected, growth should and will drive the selection of the
hardware and software solution. A desired solution is one that provides the compute, storage, and networking
resources to meet today's business requirements and scalability to meet future requirements.