VCF 9 Instance Model: Designing HQ, DR, and Edge/Sovereign Topologies
Introduction Once you’ve internalized “one Fleet across every site,” the next question is practical: how do you actually design that fleet across a headquarters site, a DR site, and edge or sovereign-cloud locations? This post breaks down the core VCF Instance/Fleet constructs and the four fleet deployment designs Broadcom documents for VCF 9.1, and maps them to the multi-site patterns operators actually build. The Three Constructs, Revisited Broadcom’s VCF Taxonomy defines three nested constructs worth keeping straight: ...