Customers are using VMware Cloud on AWS to accelerate cloud migrations, deploy hybrid architectures, and replace their disaster recovery environments. VMware Cloud on AWS brings a new dimension of hybrid cloud and mixed architecture to many customers, offering the opportunity for augmenting and evolving existing and legacy applications. Learn how VMware Cloud on AWS helps build a lower-risk and iterative transformation approach to your traditional applications and data in a hybrid environment. Also learn best practices to protect and scale your workload by natively integrating AWS services, such as AWS Direct Connect, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing.

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Journey into the cloud with VMware
Cloud on AWS
S V C 2 1 0
Jayaraman VelloreSampathkumar
AWS Solution Architect
Amazon Web Services

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VMware Cloud on AWS target use cases
Cloud migrations Data center extension Disaster recovery Next-generation
applications
Consolidate Migrate Expand
Maintain
Primary Secondary
Primary
Application modernization
Next-gen app build out
Enterprise workloads
Application specific
Data-center wide
Infrastructure refresh
Protect additional workloads
DR data center replacement
Add or modernize
DR solutions
Footprint expansion
On-demand capacity
Test/dev

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Migrate your business-critical applications to the cloud
SAP S/4 HANA
SAP BW/4 HANA
SAP HANA data management Oracle business applications
Oracle database
Custom applications
SQL database
Custom applications
SAP workloads Oracle workloads Microsoft SQL workloads
Microsoft SharePoint

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VMware Cloud on AWS

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VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC as an on-demand cloud service
Zero to workload ready in 90 minutes
Add host capacity in 12 minutes
Managed by VMware
Patching, Updates and Upgrades
Auto host remediation
Elasticity and agility
Clusters from 3 to 16 hosts
Up to 10 clusters per SDDC
ESXi
NSX
vSphere
vSAN
Software-defined data center (SDDC)

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Account structure
VMware Cloud
SDDC account
Is owned, operated, and paid
Private to VMware Cloud SDDC
Full access to the
A new AWS account to run SDDC resources
Is owned, operated, and paid directly by VMware
Single tenant for all SDDC resources

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VMware Cloud on AWS architecture

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Expanding global reach by launching 8 regions in H1 2019
Available
US West – Oregon
US East – N. Virginia
Europe – London
Europe – Frankfurt
Asia Pacific – Sydney
Asia Pacific – Singapore
Europe – Paris
Asia Pacific – Tokyo
Europe – Ireland
US West – N. California
US East – Ohio
GovCloud (US West)
Canada – Central
Q2 2019
So. America – Sao Paulo
China – Hong Kong
Asia Pacific – Osaka
Asia Pacific – Seoul
Asia Pacific – Mumbai
H2 2019
Middle East – Bahrain
Gov Cloud US East
Europe – Sweden

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Innovation jointly engineered by VMware and AWS
Connectivity
AWS Direct Connect
High availability
and reliability
Stretch cluster
Security
Distributed firewall
Storage
vSAN and EBS
Integration
Access to
AWS services

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Overlay versus underlay networks
VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC account
NSX
Management gateway
(MGW)
Compute gateway
(CGW)
VCSA
NSX
MGR
Management
VM VM
Customer workloads
T0
Internet gateway

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Connectivity
Distributed firewalling
• Micro-segmentation security for VMware
Cloud on AWS workloads
Simplified hybridity
• Data center and VMware Cloud on AWS
interconnectivity with AWS Direct Connect for
all traffic types, without need for VPN tunnels
Route-based VPN and
redundancy
• Dynamic routing protocol simplifies
redundancy
Compute
Storage
NetworkvSphere-based
data center
VMware Cloud on AWS
On-premises data center MGW
CGW
Network A
Network B
NSX VPN
AWS Direct Connect
VCSA
T0

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Achieve high-performance connectivity
vSphere vSAN NSX
VMware Cloud on AWS
Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
AWS services
AWS global infrastructureCustomer data center
On-premises
NSX VPN
VMware vCenter®
VMware vCenter
VMware vCenter VMware vCenter
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Direct Connect
Private, dedicated network
connection with guaranteed
connectivity performance
Best suited for customers with
critical workloads that need
predictable throughput

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Using VMware HCX for large-scale migrations
• App mobility between any
vSphere versions across on
premises and VMware Cloud
on AWS
• Best-in-class migration,
VMware Cloud Motion with
vSphere replication
with zero downtime
• Secure, bi-directional, traffic
engineered, network
extension with auto VPN set
up
Infrastructure hybridity
App mobility
vSphere
on premises
vSphere
Internet/Direct Connect/WAN
VMware Cloud on
AWS
vSphere
HCX
Infrastructure abstraction

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Stretched clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS
Zero RPO high availability (HA)
across Availability Zones (AZs)
No necessity to architect in the
application
Common logical networks with
vSphere HA/DRS enabled
Synchronous replication between
AZs for mission-critical
applications
AZ availability treated as vSphere
HA event and VM is restarted in
the other AZ
AWS Availability
Zone A
AWS Availability Zone
B
… …
vSphere HA/DRS span across AZ
NSX logical networks
Stretched clusters
… …
vSAN stretched cluster
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
AWS Region

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Cross–Availability Zone traffic
Stretched cluster
AZ AZ
Region
AZ
Witness
Synchronous
writes
Read
locality
vSAN stretched cluster—replication traffic
Traffic types
Read traffic serviced by AZ that VM
resides on
Synchronous replication commits
writes to both AZs
Witness traffic dependent on
number of objects

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New high-capacity storage option backed by Amazon EBS
vSphere vSAN NSX
VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon EC2 R5.metal
Amazon EC2 R5.metal instance
with flexible storage
Storage per host range from
15 to 35 TB in increments of 5 TB
Choose the amount of storage used on all
hosts within the cluster
R5.metal clusters can be added to
an existing SDDC with at least one existing
provisioned clusterEBS EBS EBS EBS EBS
Amazon EC2 R5.metal: R5.metal instances are based on 2.5 GHz Intel Platinum 8000 series (Skylake-SP) processors. Each host has 2
sockets, 48 cores, 96 hyper-threads, 768 GiB RAM, and 25 Gbps network bandwidth.

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Disaster recovery to the cloud with VMware Site
Recovery
Overview of goals

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Protecting multiple sites with VMware Site Recovery
Multi-site protectionSRM
On-premises site 1
(Production)SRM
On-premises site 2
(Production)
VMware Site
Recovery
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
2 (DR site)
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
1 (Production)
VMware Site
Recovery

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AWS KMS
Local SSD devices
vSANvSAN
EBS Volume
AWS KMS

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• Increased deployment
flexibility
• Specify a lower number of
CPU cores you need per host
(applied cluster wide)
• Reduce costs for running
applications licensed per core
Custom CPU core counts
Regular cluster “Custom” cluster
…
…Illustrative
Reduce licensing costs

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Elastic DRS
Scaling hosts for on-demand requirements
▪ Enabled at the cluster level
▪ Disabled by default
▪ Automatically scale cluster based on
utilization
▪ Monitoring interval every five minutes
▪ Scales up when ANY resource crosses
predefined threshold
▪ Scales down when ALL resources consistently
remain below thresholds

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Automatic cluster configuration
vSAN cluster
Host is added1. Automatic network
configuration2. 3.
vSAN cluster
Management network
vMotion network
vSAN network
VXLAN network
vSAN cluster
vSAN datastore capacity
increase

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Automated hardware remediation
Host fails, or problem
identified
New host added to cluster.
data from problem host rebuilt, and/or
migrated
Previous host evacuated from
cluster, fully replaced by new host
1.
2.
3.
vSAN cluster
vSAN cluster
vSAN cluster

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AWS account connectivity
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC account Customer-owned AWS account
VPC subnet 1 VPC subnet 2
VM
Customer
workloads
Amazon
Redshift
Logical network
Route table
VPC VPC
Host-1
Host-2
Host-3
Host-4
T0

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VPC gateway endpoint - Amazon S3
Amazon S3
S3
endpoint
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.2.0/24
Router
ESXi
VMware managed
IGW
Customer managed
ENI
Subnet2
10.2.2.0/24
Customer VPC
Subnet1
10.2.1.0/24
VPC Network 10.2.0.0/16
VMware VPC
VPC Network 10.1.0.0/16
Manag. network (overlay)
Compute network (overlay)
MGW
Amazon EC2
bare metal
vCenter
CGW

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What services can be accessed using AWS PrivateLink?
• AWS services:
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• AWS CodeBuild
• Amazon EC2 API
• Elastic Load Balancing API
• AWS Key Management Service
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• AWS Service Catalog
• Amazon SNS
• AWS Systems Manager
• And more…
• Endpoint services hosted by other AWS accounts
• Supported AWS Marketplace partner services

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AWS services within a customer-managed VPC
Customer managed
RDS
CGW
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.2.0/24
Compute network (overlay)
Router
VMware managed
ENI
File share
EFS

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Application protection using Amazon ALB
Customer managed
CGW
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.2.0/24
Compute network (overlay)
Router
VMware managed
ENI
WAF
Visitor
Shield
ALBIGW
IP target group
• 192.168.1.10
• 192.168.1.11

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Jayaraman VelloreSampathkumar
AWS Solution Architect
Amazon Web Services