VCF Design Services

We design VMware Cloud Foundation platforms that are right-sized for your workloads, your compliance posture and your operating model - documented properly, so your team can build and run it with confidence.

What we deliver

• Requirements & workload discovery - capacity, performance, availability and compliance drivers.
• Management and workload domain design - VCF 5.x or VCF 9.x, consolidated or standard architecture.
• Sizing for vSphere, vSAN (ESA/OSA), NSX and Aria/VCF Operations components.
• Network design - uplinks, VLANs/overlay, NSX edge clusters, routing and Edge/Tier-0 placement.
• Storage design - vSAN policies, fault domains, stretched cluster and external storage options.
• Low-level and high-level design documents, plus a bill of materials and validated build plan.
• Lifecycle strategy - SDDC Manager bundles, upgrade windows and a supportable baseline.

Why design first

Most VCF problems we're called in to fix started as design decisions: undersized management domains, NSX edge placement that blocks later expansion, or vSAN policies that quietly consume usable capacity. A short design engagement up front costs a fraction of re-platforming later.

Typical engagement

• Week 1 - discovery workshops and current-state assessment.
• Week 2 - architecture options, sizing model and cost comparison.
• Week 3 - HLD/LLD sign-off, BOM and build runbook handover.

Part of our VMware Cloud Foundation services.