Cluster Blueprint

A Virtualized Cluster in Private Cloud Director is a group of hypervisor hosts that virtual machines get provisioned on.

You can create one or more virtualized clusters per region. You can also further slice a cluster into multiple subgroups of hosts using Host Aggregates. This allows you to combine hosts with similar characteristics into a cluster or a host aggregate within a cluster and target VM provisioning to that cluster or aggregate.

What is Cluster Blueprint

A cluster blueprint allow you to describe common configure that all virtualized clusters will share in a declarative, prescriptive manner. Blueprint is designed to help you express your desired cluster architecture upfront, and ensure that cluster capacity that is added over time conforms to this desired architecture.

Create a Cluster Blueprint

To deploy and use a virtualized cluster, your first step will be to create a cluster blueprint.

Navigate to Infrastructure -> Cluster Blueprints in the Private Cloud Director UI to create your cluster blueprint.

Follow the details in Networking Configuration to find out more about configuring networking service as part of the cluster blueprint configuration.

Follow the details in Block Storage Service Configuration to learn about creating one or more storage types as part of cluster blueprint.

Customize Cluster Defaults

Clusters have additional default properties, which most users will not need to change. But you can customize these based on your requirements.