This is first of 5 Fleet design patterns.
This is core concept of a VCF Fleet Basic deployment.
Think of this as our baseline VCF instance design – the foundation for all the other VCF Fleet deployment options I’ll cover next.
A single VCF instance has a management domain and one or more workload domains.
In the management domain we have the usual core components:
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SDDC Manager
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vCenter
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NSX
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Storage
On top of that, we now add VCF Operations and VCF Automation. Together, these become the primary place from which you operate and automate one or more VCF instances.
This basic design is intentionally simple:
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It gives you one Ops/Automation stack to manage your environment.
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It serves as the starting point and the common pattern that all the other fleet designs build on.
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At this stage, it does not span multiple availability zones or provide site‑level HA or DR. It’s focused on getting a clean, consistent management foundation in place.
From here, we’ll see how we extend this baseline into multi‑instance, high‑availability, and disaster recovery designs.
Please check next article as logical continuation: VCF Fleet Basic with Multiple VCF Instances
