VMware vSphere

ESXi type-1 hypervisor with vCenter Server, clustering, vMotion and optional key-provider-backed VM encryption.

Provider
default
Category
Compute
Properties · 2 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
clusterServices · component propertyenumnone | ha | drs | ha-drsnononeinherited
diskEncryptionboolean—no—▸ false
instancesinteger—no—inherited
keyProvider · component propertyenumnone | native | standard-kmsnononeinherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ false
memoryGibinteger—no—inherited
osenumlinux | windows | aix | ibm-inolinuxinherited
publicIpboolean—no—inherited
sizeVcpuinteger—no—inherited
vmotion · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
vsanStorage · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
zoneRedundantboolean—no—inherited
Rules that apply · 1

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

stateful-node-without-zone-redundancy

A stateful compute node pinned to exactly one availability zone disappears with that zone, and its state goes with it. Nodes inside a cell are exempt, because there the cell is deliberately single-zone and redundancy comes from the other cells.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `stateless` is false
  • — the node sits inside exactly 1 availability-zone group
  • — this does not hold:
  • — the node sits inside at least one cell group
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "vsphere", component: "vsphere" }
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Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# VMware vSphere with ESXi, the type-1 hypervisor plus vCenter Server. Per "vSphere Native Key Provider
# Overview" vCenter Server ships with no key provider configured, so virtual machine and vSAN encryption are
# off until an administrator sets one up.
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "vsphere"
kind: "virtual-machine"
provider: "default"
docs: "https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/vsphere-security/configuring-and-managing-vsphere-native-key-provider/vsphere-native-key-provider-overview.html"
defaults:
  managed: false
  diskEncryption: false
properties:
  keyProvider:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["none", "native", "standard-kms"]
    default: "none"
  clusterServices:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["none", "ha", "drs", "ha-drs"]
    default: "none"
  vsanStorage:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false
  vmotion:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/vsphere.md