High-performance architecture on bare metal
The self-managed VMware solution is deployed on dedicated GCE Z3 bare metal instances (z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal). Powered by 2.2 GHz – 4th Generation Intel Xeon Processors (Sapphire Rapids) processors, each node delivers:
Operating natively within Google Cloud alongside GCE and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), this architecture provides high bandwidth and low-latency networking for transactional databases and direct access to native Google Cloud services, including BigQuery, the Gemini platform, Cloud Run, and more.
The solution’s storage architecture is built on VMware vSAN hyperconverged infrastructure using high-performance, all-flash NVMe storage from Z3 nodes. Beyond standard storage, these drives can also be utilized for NVMe memory tiering. In addition to vSAN, the solution also supports NetApp volumes.
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