What are best practices for incorporating VMware Cloud on AWS into your existing architectures? You’ll learn about design considerations for integrating your Software Defined Data Centers (SDDCs) with native AWS services, and hear how VMware Cloud on AWS helps leverage existing investments while providing scalability, agility, and security.

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Massimo Re Ferre’
Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Tim Hearn
Director, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware
VMware Cloud on AWS

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Why are customers adopting the cloud?

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What do customers really want from hybrid?
Run workloads
on-premises
Run workloads in
the cloud
Tight integration
between on-
premises and the
cloud
Without buying
new hardware

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Common challenges with hybrid cloud
VMware Cloud on AWS removes these barriers and enables faster hybrid cloud adoption
Incongruent
Networks
Operational
Inconsistency
Need to Learn
New Skillsets &
Tools
Multiple
Monitoring &
Control
Mechanisms
Multiple Virtual
Machine Formats

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VMware Cloud on AWS
Rich VMware SDDC
delivered as a cloud
service on AWS
Consistency and
familiarity of VMware
technologies
Easy workload
portability and hybrid
capabilities
AWS
Direct access to the
power of native AWS
services
Existing and new
apps with Containers
and VMs
VMware SDDC technologies you know and trust delivered as a service on the world's most popular public cloud

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VMware Cloud on AWS makes it easier
PAYG
Opex
Self-service
Multi-geo
The stack you know
and like

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Compute Abstractions at AWS
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
EC2
Metal
Amazon
ECS
AWS Batch
physicalseverVMcontainerfunction
Amazon
Lightsail
Levelofabstraction
Provider space
(managed by AWS)
Consumer space
(managed by the customer)
VMware
SDDC

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What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
On-Demand, VMware Software Defined
Datacenter Delivered as a Cloud Service
ESXi
NSX
vSphere
vSAN
Latest Software
VCSA, ESXi, NSX, VSAN, Managed by VMware
Dynamic Capacity
DRS/HA Compute Cluster (Intel x86)
VSAN Storage Cluster (NVMe Flash)
NSX Network Virtualization (ENA)
Software Defined Data Center

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What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
ESXi
NSX
vSphere
vSAN
Software Defined Data Center
Amazon
EC2
Amazon
S3
Amazon
RDS
AWS Direct
Connect
Amazon
Dynamo DB
Amazon
Redshift
ESXi
vSphere vCentervCenter
AWS Global InfrastructureCustomer Data Center

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Customer AWS Account Connectivity
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC Account
Host-1
Host-2
Host-3
Host-4
CGW
Customer Owned
AWS Account
VPC Subnet 1 VPC Subnet 2
VM
Customer
Workloads
Amazon
Redshift
Logical Network
Route Table

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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
Is owned, operated, and
for all

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VMware Cloud on AWS: Ops and Support
The fully configured VMware Cloud software
stack will be provisioned, operated, and
maintained directly by VMware.
Overview
Provisioning
• Automated account creation and
environment provisioning by using the API
• Automated interconnection created between
VMware and AWS customer accounts
Operations
• Support provided by VMware directly
• AWS infrastructure (for VMC) support
managed by VMware
• Ongoing infrastructure monitoring
Maintenance
• Ongoing stack maintenance managed
directly by VMware
• Upgrade implementation and execution

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Hybrid Connectivity
Customer Data Center
#1
Team #1
VM
ESXi
VM
VM
VSAN
VM
NSX
ESXi
Team #1 SDDC
VM
VSAN
VM
NSX
ESXi
Team #2 SDDC
Customer Data Center
#2
Team #2
VM
ESXi
VM
AWS Direct
Connect
CGW CGW
Bespoke
NSX Edge
Bespoke
NSX Edge
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Account
Internet

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Deployment in practice (accounts pairing)

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Region you are deploying to
Number of hosts
Deployment in practice (region and hosts)

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VMware VPC
Customer DTC
Internet
Customer VPC
Deployment in practice (network view)

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SDDC (deployed in us-east-1)
vCenter end-point in AWS
Create another SDDC instance
Deployment in practice (summary view)

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VMC on AWS
On-prem vSphere
The end result

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VMware Cloud on AWS Target Use Cases
Customer can decide strategically across on-premises data center and cloud
Data Center Extension & DR
Maintain
Expand
On-demand capacity
Footprint expansion
DR and backup
Test and Dev
A
Cloud Migration
Consolidate
Migrate
Data center wide migration
Application specific migration
Infrastructure refresh
B
Next-Generation Apps
Application modernization
Next-gen app build out
C

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VMware Cloud on AWS - March’18 release highlights
Enterprise-class availability
§ Introducing stretched clusters
for VMware Cloud on AWS for
zero RPO availability across
AWS AZ with multi-AZ stretched
clustering (*Preview)
§ Builds on intrinsic vSphere HA
capability
Improved storage efficiency
§ Save 40% on average with
storage efficiency improvements
delivered by vSAN deduplication
and compression**
Making hybrid cloud simple
§ Automated SDDC deployments using AWS
CloudFormation and Hashicorp Terraform
§ New networking and security tools for faster
setup and operations (*Preview)
§ HLM support for more on-premises vCenter
versions: 6.0u3c or above
Broaden choice of transaction and
technology partner ecosystem
§ Expand VMware Solution and Cloud Provider
portfolio to include VMware Cloud on AWS
§ Support by storage performance optimization,
data services, cloud planning partners
VMware Cloud services for
migration & troubleshooting
§ Cost visibility with VMware Cost
Insight
§ Proactive troubleshooting with
VMware Log Intelligence
Easily add and extend desktop
and app services for end-users
§ Support for VMware Horizon for
virtualized desktop workloads
and app services on VMware
Cloud on AWS (*Preview)
• *Preview: Feature released in preview to gather feedback – may not be available to all applicable customers or in all AWS regions . The information in this presentation is for informational purposes
only and may not be incorporated into any contract. There is no commitment or obligation that items in ‘Preview’ will become ‘Available’.
• ** Savings calculated for a 150TB VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC cluster. Based on 3-year subscription pricing. Actual deduplication and compression storage reduction will vary based on workload
and data set
Visit: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/roadmap

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Flexible consumption models
Consumption-based Billing
On-demand / hourly model
1 or 3-year reserved model
Buy add-on services
Various Payment Methods
VMware SPP or
HPP credits
Purchase orders
Credit Card
Hybrid Loyalty Program
Leverage existing
investments with
VMware
% Purchase VMware Cloud
on AWS at a lower rate
No trade-in of on-
premises licenses
required
AWS

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Region Availability

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