Network readiness checklist –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

Organizations can use the following checklist to gather information that is used to configure Outposts: ParameterDescriptionNumber of CNDsTwo recommendedOrganization ASNExisting organization BGP ASNNumber of uplinksNumber of uplinks between each CND and OND (1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 recommended)Uplink...

Underlying network connectivity –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts requires a persistent network connection between the AWS Outposts and an AWS Region to transmit control plane traffic back to the AWS Region. AWS Outposts also needs to establish connectivity to the local on-premises network. The organization is responsible for providing both the...

What is VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts? –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

Organizations running on-premises vSphere workloads looking to modernize their workloads and migrate to the cloud use VMware Cloud on AWS to migrate applications into the cloud in a fast and seamless manner, without having to refactor or change any application code or logic. While most vSphere...

Consuming Console APIs via the Developer Center – Infrastructure as Code with VMware Cloud

The Developer Center offers various tools to manage the API structure and capture user actions that can be translated into executable code. Developers, automation engineers, and DevOps engineers can access the tools to manage the API structures and capture vSphere Client actions that can be...

Capabilities –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

VMC on AWS Outposts provides the following capabilities: It provides VMware’s enterprise-grade SDDC software on next-generation dedicated Amazon Nitro-based EC2 bare-metal instances provisioned in an AWS Outposts that resides in a organization’s on-premises location. AWS Nitro-system-based...

Leveraging Terraform for VMware Cloud on AWS – Infrastructure as Code with VMware Cloud

Terraform is an infrastructure provisioning tool from HashiCorp that has become synonymous with Infrastructure as Code. This tool allows us to define the desired state of our infrastructure by way of text-based configuration files. From that point, we can manage the entire life cycle of our...

VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts rack –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

The VMC on AWS Outposts rack is a standard 42U rack provided by AWS Outposts. This rack measures 80 inches (203.20 cm) in height, 24 inches (60.96 cm) in width, and 48 inches (121.92 cm) in depth. It contains bare-metal hosts, network switches, a network patch panel, a power shelf, and blank...

Service link BGP connectivity –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

To establish service link connectivity, external BGP (eBGP) peering sessions are created between each OND and the CND. A /30 or /31 IP address is used as a BGP peering IP address for each BGP session between the Outposts service link autonomous system and the organization’s autonomous system...

Private connectivity –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

VMC on AWS Outposts can leverage AWS Direct Connect private VIFs for the service link private connectivity. A set of Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) within an Amazon VPC is created to establish the service link connectivity to the AWS service anchor private endpoint. This Amazon VPC is created...

VMC on AWS Outposts support –VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

VMC on AWS Outposts provides organizations with first-party support through VMware. Organizations can take advantage of the 24/5 in-service chat support available in English across all global Regions. Moreover, organizations can contact VMware’s enterprise support personnel. Regular updates,...