VM management – Knowing the Best Practices, FAQs, and Common Pitfalls

VM management involves a detailed understanding of VM lifecycle management and the VM configuration: VM configuration A VM first created in an on-premises environment might have a number of virtual devices or advanced configuration settings, and no or limited support on VMware Cloud on AWS. VMs...

VMware HCX deployment – Knowing the Best Practices, FAQs, and Common Pitfalls

While HCX design and deployment could easily be a topic for a separate book, let’s point out the most important design decisions to make: Consider using AWS DX for migration traffic. You must configure the HCX Service Mesh on the cloud side to use DX. By default, HCX uplinks are mapped to public...

Design and architecture – Knowing the Best Practices, FAQs, and Common Pitfalls

Knowing the Best Practices, FAQs, and Common Pitfalls Incorporating a new service into the enterprise infrastructure landscape is not easy. A lot of factors must be considered to make the project a success. In this chapter, you will learn how to make the adoption of VMware Cloud on AWS as smooth...

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...

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...

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...

Generating CSP API tokens – Infrastructure as Code with VMware Cloud

An API token (also known as a refresh token) is a key assigned to an individual account used to authenticate to the service via an API. The API token can generate an access token, which can then be used to make API calls to the Organization.Follow these steps to create an API token: After logging...

SDDC upgrades and maintenance – Building Applications and Managing Operations

VMware is responsible for performing updates on VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. These updates, known as SDDC upgrades, ensure that new features and bug fixes are continuously delivered and that software versions remain consistent across the SDDC fleet. Figure 8.17 shows the Maintenance tab of the...

VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) – Building Applications and Managing Operations

VMware Aria Operations is an AI-driven platform for managing IT operations in private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. It can perform continuous performance optimization, efficient cost management, intelligent remediation, and integrated compliance. In addition, the platform includes VMware...

VMware Cloud on AWS troubleshooting – Building Applications and Managing Operations

Organizations can deploy monitoring and troubleshooting applications from VMware (including Aria Operations, Operations for Logs, and Operations for Networks) or other third-party vendors. The prerequisite gateway firewall rules should be configured for these tools to perform efficiently....