Getting Started with VMware Cloud on AWS

Public cloud to private cloud made easy by VMware Cloud on AWS offerings.  


What is VMware Cloud on AWS? 

It is a Software-defined data center (SDDC) Three major components are : 

  • Compute Virtualization using ESXi  
  • Storage Virtualization using vSAN 
  • Network Virtualization using NSX 
Compute 

*Bare Metal 

*I3.16XL Equivalent 
*36 Cores / 72 vCPUs 
*512GiB Memory 
*15 TiB NVMe All-Flash Storage 
*25Gb ENA 

VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure. 


VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for enterprise IT infrastructure and operations organizations looking to migrate their on-premises vSphere-based workloads to the public cloud, consolidate and extend their data center capacities, and optimize, simplify and modernize their disaster recovery solutions. VMware Cloud on AWS is delivered, sold, and supported globally by VMware and its partners with availability in the following AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), Europe (London), and Europe (Frankfurt).

VMware Cloud on AWS brings the broad, diverse and rich innovations of AWS services natively to the enterprise applications running on VMware's compute, storage and network virtualization platforms. This allows organizations to easily and rapidly add new innovations to their enterprise applications by natively integrating AWS infrastructure and platform capabilities such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Redshift, among many others.
With VMware Cloud on AWS, organizations can simplify their Hybrid IT operations by using the same VMware Cloud Foundation technologies including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server across their on-premises data centers and on the AWS Cloud without having to purchase any new or custom hardware, rewrite applications, or modify their operating models. The service automatically provisions infrastructure and provides full VM compatibility and workload portability between your on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud. With VMware Cloud on AWS, you can leverage AWS's breadth of services, including compute, databases, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), security, mobile, deployment, application services, and more.


Bare Metal Cloud Infrastructure

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VMware Cloud on AWS provides the VMware SDDC software stack to the highly scalable AWS Cloud, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server. Each SDDC consists of 4 to 32 hosts, each with 36 cores, 512 GiB of memory, and 15.2TB raw (roughly 21TB usable capacity in an initial 4 host cluster) of NVMe storage. You can deploy a fully configured VMware SDDC Cluster in under a few hours, and scale host capacity up and down in minutes.

Deploying and Managing a Software-Defined Data Center

Deploying a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is the first step in making use of the VMware Cloud on AWS service. After you deploy the SDDC, you can view information about it and perform management tasks.

There are a number of factors to consider before deploying your SDDC.

Connected AWS account

When you deploy an SDDC on VMware Cloud on AWS, it is created within an AWS account and VPC dedicated to your organization and managed by VMware. You must also connect the SDDC to an AWS account belonging to you, referred to as the customer AWS account. This connection allows your SDDC to access AWS services belonging to your customer account.

If you are deploying a Single Host SDDC, you can delay linking your customer AWS account for up to two weeks. You cannot scale up a Single Host SDDC to a multiple host SDDC until you link an AWS account. If you are deploying a multiple host SDDC, you must link your customer AWS account when you deploy the SDDC.

SDDC Networking

When you create an SDDC, it includes a Management Network and a Compute Network. The Management Network has two subnets.

Appliance Subnet 

A subnet of the CIDR range you specified for the Management Subnet when you created the SDDC. This subnet is used by the vCenter, NSX, and HCX appliances in the SDDC. When you add appliance-based services such as SRM to the SDDC, they also connect to this subnet.

Infrastructure Subnet 

A subnet of the CIDR range you specified for the Management Subnet when you created the SDDC. This subnet is used by the ESXi hosts in the SDDC.

The compute network can have up to 16 segments for your workload VMs. In a Single Host SDDC starter configuration, the compute network is created with one routed segment. In SDDC configurations that have more hosts, you'll have to create compute network segments to meet your needs.

A Tier 0 NSX Edge appliance sits between your on-premises networks and your SDDC networks, and routes traffic to either the management network or the compute network as appropriate.

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