VCF 4 on VxRail : Consolidated architecture support

VCF Consolidated architecture is now supported on VxRail (VCF 4.0)

This is great news !

Please find relevant statement in the VCF on VxRail release note here :https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.0/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-17-release-notes.html#What's%20New

• Support for consolidated architecture: Standard architecture is recommended for most deployments, but for smaller system requirements the consolidated architecture is now supported.

Talking about VCF on VxRail, there are few limitations that you need to know :

1. vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) is not supported on VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail è Decision to use vLCM or VUM applies at cluster level. VxRail manager needs VUM so it can’t co-exist with vLCM (at the moment).
2. VCF on VxRail supports stretching workload domain clusters over L3 only. There is no support for L2 stretching è Usually not a real problem
3. System and overlay traffic isolation through a separate distributed virtual switch is not supported è This means we support only NSX-T deployed on converged VDS and I understand we don’t support separate VDS topology (VDS + N-VDS) anymore.