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Public Cloud powered by VMware product description

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Public Cloud powered by VMware is a cloud infrastructure based on the VMware vSphere® and VMware Cloud Director® (formerly vCloud Director®) platforms, which is provided on Selectel's physical infrastructure (IaaS).

In the public cloud, you share physical server resources with other clients. For an infrastructure isolated from other clients, use a VMware-based private cloud.

To work with the public cloud, you need to create an organization in one of the regions — Moscow or Saint Petersburg. Within the organization, a virtual data center is created in one of the clusters in a specific availability zone of the selected region. For the GOLD-1 cluster, a disaster-resilient solution is available — deployment across two availability zones within the region.

Once a virtual data center is created, its resources are managed through the Cloud Director panel.

By default, basic Selectel DDoS protection is enabled for the Public Cloud.

If you need help administering your public cloud, order the Managed Services.

Tasks solved

  • expanding cloud capacity hosted in On-Premises infrastructure without additional hardware costs;
  • moving public applications to a separate cloud;
  • creating disaster-resilient infrastructure by using a public cloud as a backup;
  • launching a test environment in minutes.

Technologies

  • VMware NSX® — network virtualization;
  • VMware vSphere® (version 7.0 U3) — application virtualization;
  • VMware vSAN™ (version 7.0 U3) — virtual disk and directory storage;
  • VMware Cloud Director® (version 10.5) — control panel for virtual data centers.

VMware NSX

Full VMware NSX® functionality is implemented for network virtualization. NSX allows for flexible configuration of local and public networks and supports:

  • micro-segmentation of the network using stateful Distributed Firewalls with support for all protocols;
  • separate address translation (NAT) rules for source and destination IP addresses, port translation;
  • DHCP protocol for configuring IP address groups, gateways, DNS servers, and lookup domains;
  • creation of VPN connections using IPsec, SSL VPN, and L2 VPN standards;
  • L4/L7 application level load balancing (Load Balancing) with dynamic configuration of virtual IP and server groups;
  • dynamic routing (Dynamic Routing), support for BGP and OSPF to configure complex networks and inter-site networking.

Clusters

SILVER-1GOLD-1GOLD-1 (DR)PLATINUM-1
Description

Hybrid vSAN-based cluster:

  • vHDD (up to 300 IOPS);
  • Fast vHDD (up to 2500 IOPS).

All-Flash vSAN-based cluster:

  • vSSD (5000 IOPS);
  • Fast vSSD (25000 IOPS).

All-Flash vSAN-based cluster:

  • vSSD (5000 IOPS);
  • Fast vSSD (25000 IOPS).

All-Flash vSAN-based cluster:

  • vSSD (5000 IOPS);
  • Fast vSSD (25000 IOPS);
  • Ultra vSSD (40000 IOPS).
ProcessorIntel® Xeon® Gold 6240 @ 2.60 GHzIntel® Xeon® Gold 6240 @ 2.60 GHzIntel® Xeon® Gold 6240 @ 2.60 GHzIntel® Xeon® Gold 6254 @ 3.10 GHz

Write speeds for disks are listed cumulatively for all operations in 32 KB blocks.

All clusters use:

  • P-Series NVMe SSDs (a solution in Intel's server SSD lineup);
  • HGST Enterprise server HDD disks;
  • Juniper Networks and Brocade networking equipment;
  • virtualization hosts on Intel® hardware platforms.

The virtual data center channel bandwidth is 1 Gbps.

Disaster-resilient Gold-1 (DR) cluster

When you select a disaster-resilient solution, a cluster of virtual machines in an additional data center is reserved along with the creation of the virtual data center (VMware Stretched vSAN technology). The virtual data center is regularly replicated to the backup cluster — the availability of the primary and replicated data center is constantly monitored.

In case of virtual data center unavailability, all virtual machines will be automatically started on the backup one with minimal downtime.