Data Center Blueprint
Servers specified, supplied and integrated.
Data Center Blueprint
Servers specified, supplied and integrated.
Decided by our platform comparison
Six platforms, one requirement. Your comparison decides which one this design runs on.
40 km
Between the two pods
99.99%
Uptime per pod
0 min
Data lost inside a pod
15 min
Data lost to the other pod
2 h
Recovery time in a pod
4
Minimum nodes per cluster
All three documents, in one place.
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All three documents, in one place.
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Who it is for.
For the head of infrastructure replacing end-of-support virtualization hosts across two sites, who must choose a platform after the 2023–24 VMware licensing change and prove to the board that the choice was compared, not inherited. Sized for 250 virtual machines at issue in September 2026, 400 by 2029, two sites 40 km apart, Active Directory, and a regulator who asks for the recovery test record.
What is in, what is out.
In: two pods, one per site; compute nodes; distributed or vSAN storage; a management plane per pod; replication and recovery between sites; self-service virtual machines in three sizes; the ordering list. Out: applications, the WAN and interconnect, public-cloud extension and GPU nodes.
Tested at the first build.
Five principal architects write the designs. Each name is on the document.
Platform decided by our comparison
AHV or VCF 9.1
Dell R7725 or HPE DL380 Gen12,
per client
Two pods
with cross-pod replication
Hyperconverged storage,
no three-tier SAN
Three standard VM sizes,
self-service
Twice-yearly recovery tests
required
Where it applies.
Questions about this design.
Talk to an expertDell PowerEdge R7725 or HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen12 servers, running Nutanix AHV or VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.1. VMware: Stay or Leave decides the platform per client.
Applications, the WAN and interconnect (Networking Blueprint), public-cloud extension, and GPU nodes (AI & Data Blueprint).
Steve Phillips, Principal Data Center Architect.
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