Hello friend! Looking to extend your on-premises VMware footprint seamlessly into the public cloud? Well VMware Cloud on AWS offers the perfect solution through a fully automated Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) deployed directly onto AWS bare metal infrastructure.
This hands-on guide will walk you through…
- Key components of the VMware SDDC stack
- Steps to set up networking & activate VMware Cloud
- How to launch and configure your SDDC in AWS
- Management best practices for the SDDC control plane
I‘ll also showcase some of the advanced integrations, migration approaches and total cost optimization that VMware Cloud unlocks. Let‘s get started!
VMware Cloud Overview
VMware Cloud provides dedicated, single-tenant environments on next-gen AWS hardware fully certified for VMware cloud infrastructure. This delivers…
- Predictable performance with bare metal hosts
- Operational consistency with SDDC model
- Enterprise scale currently supporting >10K hosts per SDDC
The platform offers access to 200+ native AWS services while unifying visibility and governance across private plus public infrastructure.
Primary Components
An SDDC consists of vSphere hosts clustered to provide…
- Compute – Leverage latest 96 core/2TB memory instances
- Storage – All-flash vSAN scales to petabytes of NVMe SSD capacity
- Networking – NSX-T delivers microsegmentation & extensibility
This is all interconnected by high speed Nitro cloud fabric…
SDDC Core Building Blocks
Delivered on demand backed by enterprise SLAs. Now let‘s prep our environment!
Prerequisites & Account Setup
Prior to deployment, you‘ll need to:
- Activate VMware Cloud entitlements from MyVMware company store
- Purchase host capacity for the target AWS region
- Assign SDDC creation permissions via IAM to Cloud Admin users
You should land on an AWS account structure leveraging Organizational Units and central Identity Providers for access governance…
VMware Cloud Admin Role Hierarchy
Now we‘re ready for the fun part…
And so on…
