Cloud Foundation controls the software as well as hardware in the environment using SDDC Manager. SDDC Manager is shown in the following diagram:
Figure 12: SDDC Manager design
SDDC Manager has three major functions, as described in the following sections.
SDDC Manager is capable of managing and monitoring the virtual, as well as physical, components of Cloud Foundation. SDDC Manager further helps you in Cloud Foundation configuration, operations, and management configurations, allowing you to do the following:
- Abstract, pool, and automate the physical components into a virtual entity.
- Scale up/down hosts or switches to the rack. Adding more racks brings scalability, performance enhancements, and easy failure management.
- Orchestrate and automate the lifecycle of logical components and management-plane components of Cloud Foundation.
- Trend analysis and proactive mapping of resources depending on their profiles, events, and operations such as vCenter...