About SDDC Business

SDDC Business offers you the ability to expand data center capacity without the need for further investment in physical assets. With direct access to the VMware APIs, you can use your existing scripts and the same VMware and third-party tools to manage the hosting VMware environment, improving agility by reducing long procurement lead times and ensuring that you meet new business demands while maintaining control.

SDDC Business is a dedicated, per-customer instance of the VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) stack.

Rackspace provides the following core components:

• VMware ESXi™ hypervisor running on dedicated hardware
• VMware vSphere
• Supporting infrastructure services: DNS, NTP.

SDDC Business is a modular solution that supports a variety of services and technologies that can easily be integrated to the solution adding to its value proposition.

Below are the currently available add-ons:

• vRealize Operations: vROPs provides full-stack visibility, proactive planning, continuous performance optimization, efficient capacity, and cost management.
• vRealize Log Insight: Intelligent log management for infrastructure and applications.
• VMware NSX-T: Agile software defined networking with security, automation, and operational simplicity
• vRealize Network Insight: Intelligent operations for software defined networking and security.
• VM Management: OS Administration, Patching, Monitoring and Anti-virus for the workload running on SDDC Business
• RackConnect Global: A software-defined multi-cloud interconnection platform that links Rackspace customers with other Rackspace data centers, third party data centers, and third-party clouds via direct, private, low latency virtual connection
• Rackspace Data Protection: A Backup solution for workload running on SDDC Enterprise.
• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity: Various managed and unmanaged solutions to cater for your disaster recovery needs.

SDDC Business Core Platform

• Dedicated, single tenant compute, network, and storage.
• Compute Storage: sSAN, dSAN, File
• SDDC Core: VMware vSphere (ESXi + vCenter Server)

Below is the high level diagram of SDDC Business: