Workload Domains

Introduction Every VI workload domain you stand up in VCF asks the same networking question: does it join an existing NSX Manager, or get its own? The Networking page of the workload domain creation wizard boils this down to two buttons – “Join Existing NSX Manager Instance” and “Create New NSX Manager Instance” – but the operational consequences run much deeper than a single click. This is a per-domain decision, not a fleet-wide one, and a VCF instance scaling toward its 25-domain ceiling will likely end up with a mix of both. ...

Introduction Every VI workload domain in a VCF instance got there one of two ways: it was built from scratch through the workload domain wizard, or it was an existing vCenter environment that VCF Operations absorbed as-is. These aren’t just two UI paths to the same result – they carry different prerequisites, different day-one side effects, and different long-term upgrade constraints. Picking the wrong one for your situation doesn’t just cost time in the wizard; it can lock a workload domain out of upgrade paths for its entire lifecycle. ...