The focus at the moment is for Software-Defined Data Center with VMware products, primarily for VMware VSAN. Hopefully in the future this will expand out to include multiple vendor integrations, systems and workloads but for now it's a step in the right direction. VMware validated designs come in 4 use-cases at the moment but this is set to expand. They are Datacenter Foundation, Single-region and Dual-region IT automation, QE and Demo clouds. Two that are currently available are the Datacenter Foundation and Single-Region IT Automation. I'd recommend having a browse over the documents when you have a spare moment. The DataCenter Foundation provides a design for the base architecture and the other designs build upon this design. It's also possible to sign up for the Early Access Community via MyVMware.
The first port of call for more information about the VMware Validated Designs for Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is the VMware SDDC validated designs site.
Another absolutely great way to get more insight into how the Validated Designs work and what components are required is to spend some time going through the Feature Walkthroughs from VMware. It provides an excellent walkthrough of each of the components.
I think this is an excellent step by VMware and I think it will help with the uptake of VSAN among partners and clients. VMware has followed in the footsteps of other more established technology companies with validated designs and while it's focus right now is just SDDC it will no doubt expand in the future. As an end user designing and architecting such environments the validated designs are a great resource and will assist in reducing the time it takes to validate interoperability between components.
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