VMware Cloud on AWS
Subhasish G.
Senior Technical Program Manager - Azure OpenAI Service | Customer eXperience Engineering (CxE) ?? ?? @ Microsoft | 39x Azure Certified | GenAI Speaker
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.
I tried out the VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-on Lab (HOL) earlier today from VMware available freely online; and setup my private Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and connected to an (imaginary) Corporate DC in minutes. IPSec VPN, Security Rules and Management Gateway Rules Accelerator sets you up in minutes!
I chose "Asia Pacific (Mumbai)" region, created 4 hosts with 2 sockets capacity with each.
At top-right hand corner, you can see the "Open vCenter" button. You can directly access your Private SDDC through this option. Before you can login to your vCenter, you must open network access to vCenter through the management gateway. Choose an option for opening network access by creating a Firewall Rule and setting up your VPN access.
In the VMware Cloud on AWS Console, you can view the Networking diagram of your Hybrid cloud. You will configure your network configuration to complete your VMware Cloud AWS connection to your private cloud.
We then create the IPSec VPN to our Corporate network.
The Network Diagram gets modified automatically with the VPN TestVPN that I had created!
In the VMware Cloud on AWS Console, you can configure firewall rules, configure an IPsec VPN, and configure DNS for the management gateway. To connect your Private Cloud to VMware Cloud on AWS, you need to configure a Management Gateway. The "Management Gateway Firewall Rule Accelerator" creates the firewall rules in the table automatically.
Once successful will have a green check box to the left of each rule. You will also see the rules in the table added to the Firewall Rules section. You will notice the green check mark next to the Firewall Rule that you will have to create earlier.
Pretty straight-forward. and took me a few minutes to get a VMware Cloud on AWS up and running!