County finance proposes buying only more ESXi hosts and leaving storage and networking as dedicated hardware. Why is that purchase not yet a software-defined data center (SDDC)?
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Short Explanation
More hypervisors is still just a bigger server closet. An SDDC needs all three pillars—compute, storage, and networking—virtualized together, not ESXi hosts sitting on leftover arrays and chassis switches.
Full Explanation
VMware's SDDC model is the combination of virtualized compute, storage, and networking. Adding ESXi capacity without storage virtualization (vSAN or equivalent) and network virtualization (NSX-T) remains server consolidation. Carbon Black, a public-cloud mandate, and Horizon licensing are not the three-pillar test.