In the first post of this series, we discussed what the vCloud Availability solution is. In this post, we will discuss the architecture of VCAV and the components needed to create a DRaaS solution using VCAV.

vCloud Availability Logical Architecture

The architecture relies solely on the service provider environment. There can be slight differences in components that different service provider uses. Typical components can include what is visible in the diagram below.

Components shown in gray are the components that the tenant and service provider have already deployed. Colored components are the ones that we will be deploying later in this series.

vCloud Availability Components

The table below explains a high-level overview of the components that are needed for setting up a VCAV environment.

And that’s it for this post. In the upcoming posts of this series, we will deploy these components one by one.

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What is vCloud Availability for vCloud Director (VCAV) ?

vCloud Availability for vCloud Director is a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution that provides simple and secure asynchronous replication and failover for vSphere managed workloads.

VMware released vCloud Availability for vCloud Director keeping in mind to provide cloud innovations to vCloud Air Network partners so that they can implement this software solution to provide Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to customers.

Customer’s who are using vCloud Air, knows that vCloud Air uses vSphere Replication to provide the DRaaS service to their customers. This is a very similar solution which vCAN partners will now be using for DRaaS. 

Since vCloud Air is not present in all regions,  vCloud Availability will be a blessing for vSphere customers because they can now buy and use DRaaS service from a local partner.

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