Revolutionize VMware Cloud Foundation Testing and Training!
We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability of Holodeck 9.0, your ultimate toolkit for deploying standardized and automated nested VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments!
Today more than ever, the ability to quickly and reliably test new technical capabilities is top of mind. While deploying nested VCF environments has always been possible, it often involves time-consuming manual configurations and significant hardware overhead. Holodeck changes the game by providing a self-contained, automated, and repeatable solution that dramatically reduces complexity and resource requirements.
- Significantly Reduced Hardware Requirements: Holodeck virtualizes the entire VCF management domain and workload domains, allowing you to run a complete VCF environment on a single ESX host or a vSphere cluster with sufficient capacity. A typical VCF 9.0 deployment (four node management domain and three node VI workload domain) can be nested with approximately 30 CPU cores, 325 GB memory, and 1.1 TB disk.
- Self-Contained Services: No more reliance on external data center services during your testing! Holodeck comes with built-in common infrastructure services like NTP, DNS, BGP, and DHCP, making each environment truly independent and requiring only a single external IP.
- Isolated and Conflict-Free Networking: Eliminate the need for complex VLAN and BGP connections in your network during early testing phases. Holodeck can provide isolated networking, preventing conflicts with existing configurations and allowing for multiple, completely self-contained nested environments.
- Automation and Repeatability: Deploying nested VCF environments with Holodeck is nearly hands-off and easily repeatable. This means your teams can spin up new testing environments quickly and consistently, accelerating your understanding and adoption of VCF’s powerful features across various use cases.
Holodeck is your ideal partner for gaining a deeper understanding of how VCF functions. Holodeck 9.0, supports deploying both VCF 5.2.x and VCF 9.0 environments.
Download the Holodeck binaries and access the comprehensive documentation here:
Binaries:
https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productfiles?subFamily=Holodeck&displayGroup=Holodeck&release=9.0&os=&servicePk=&language=EN&freeDownloads=true
Documentation:
https://vmware.github.io/Holodeck/
Note: The use of HoloDeck and the Offline depot appliance will require a download token which is produced with entitlement to VCF through one of the following ways: purchased, trial, NFR, pass the VCP, or pass the VCP + VMUG advantage
Project Contributors
Ben Sier, Jatin Purohit, Dhruv Tyagi, Nikhil M Kulkarni, Tom Stephens, Kevin Tebear
