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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is an excellent example of quick and easy native AWS service integration with VMware Cloud on AWS. Hosting a Windows file share is a common setup in on-premises data centres, it might be across Windows Servers or dedicated file-based storage presenting Server Message Block (SMB) / Common Internet File […]

This post will walk through the example design below; building out the Amazon Web Services (AWS) framework enabling VMware Cloud on AWS customers to start using AWS at scale, alongside VMware workloads. The key focus will be around the control of multiple accounts, using AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies, and cross-account connectivity, with Transit […]

This post lists some of the available options for connecting VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with native AWS services for hybrid cloud deployments. Read more about multi-account and VPC management at Building AWS Environments for VMware Cloud Customers. The most common way of consuming AWS services with VMware Cloud on AWS is to […]

This post demonstrates the connectivity between VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS and native AWS services. In the example below we will be using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to provision a virtual instance backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage. To complete the use case we will install Veeam and use the EC2 instance to backup […]

The VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing is an online quarterly series, in its fifth iteration, that brings vision, technology, and customer stories to the table. The briefing series has evolved through cloud platform, operations, and application development since its introduction in the summer of 2020. Both cloud technology and cloud adoption is advancing at a fast pace, […]

Introduction Skyline Advisor Pro is a cloud-based, pro-active, support technology that helps VMware customers avoid issues before they occur. It automates the capture and analysis of configurations, support bundles, and trend telemetry, and provides granular visibility throughout the global environment with predictive and prescriptive recommendations. As well as proactive avoidance of downtime, Skyline also monitors […]

Introduction Over the past 12 months we have seen further growth within the cloud, as many organisations scale or create new digital services in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Improved speed and agility has allowed businesses to pivot where traditional siloed infrastructure may have caused them to stall. As the usage of cloud services expands, […]

Introduction In my day job I am often asked about the use of cloud for disaster recovery. Some organisations only operate out of a single data centre, or building, while others have a dual-site setup but want to explore a third option in the cloud. Either way, using cloud resources for disaster recovery can be […]

This post demonstrates a simulated failure of Amazon Direct Connect, with VMware Cloud (VMC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this setup, the standby VPN has been configured to provide connectivity in the event of a Direct Connect failure. The environment consists of a 6 host stretched cluster in the eu-west-2 (London) region, across Availability […]

This post demonstrates a simulated failure of an Availability Zone (AZ), in a VMware Cloud on AWS stretched cluster. The environment consists of a 6 host stretched cluster in the eu-west-2 (London) region, across Availability Zones eu-west-2a and eu-west-2b. The simulation was carried out by the VMware Cloud on AWS back-end support team, to help […]