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VMworld 2018: VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX – Use Cases, Design, and Implementation
Many of you who have followed my personal blog and/or posts on VMware Network Virtualization blog, know I have focused on and presented on NSX Multi-site Solutions and Disaster Recovery the last few years at VMworld. This year, I transitioned … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Tech Events, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware, VMworld 2018
Tagged Advanced Networking and Security with NSX-T SDDC, ahmed, AWS, cloud, design, humair, Humair Ahmed, implementation, NSX, NSX-T, use cases, vmware, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware NSX, VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design, VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design book, VMware Press, VMware Press book, VMworld, VMworld 2018
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ZertoCON 2018: Best Practices – Networking for Failover & Failover Tests (with NSX)
Had a blast presenting at ZertoCON 2018 last month. I presented Best Practices – Networking for Failover & Failover Tests (with NSX). I presented details on best practices for disaster recovery and showed how Zerto and VMware NSX together can … Continue reading
VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo
I also published this blog post about VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on April 4, 2018. The full blog post is provided … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Networking, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware
Tagged AWS, AWS backbone, AWS Direct Connect, AWS DX router, AWS EC2, AWS Letter of Authorization, AWS LOR, AWS Network Services, AWS RDS, AWS Region, AWS S3, AWS VGW, AWS Virtual Private Gateway, AWS VPC, BGP, CGW, cloud, Cold Migration, demo, Direct Connect, Direct Connect Deployment, Direct Connect Private VIF, Direct Connect Public VIF, DX router, EC2, ESX Management, HLM, hybrid cloud, Hybrid Link Mode, Internet, IPSEC VPN, L2VPN, L2VPN client, Letter of Authorization, Live Migration, LOR, MGW, migration, network file copy, Network Virtualization, NFC, NSX, NSX IPSEC VPN, NSX L2VPN, NSX L2VPN client, NSX logical network, NSX logical switch, NSX Networking, on-prem, Private VIF, Private Virtual Interface, Public VIF, Public Virtual Interface, RDS, S3, SDDC, SDN, vCenter, VGW, virtual machine, virtualization, VM, VM migration, VMC, vMotion, vMotion to the Cloud, vmware, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS and Direct Connect Deployment, VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, VMware Cloud on AWS VPC, VMware SDDC, vPC, VPC CIDR, VPN
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VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX: Communicating with Native AWS Resources
I’ve also posted this blog on the VMware Network Virtualization Blog site. If you haven’t already, please read my prior two blogs on VMware Cloud on AWS: VMware SDDC with NSX Expands to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS – … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, AWS, Development Tools, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware
Tagged ahmed, Amazon, AWS, AWS ACL, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudFormation Template, AWS EC2, AWS Elastic Network Interfaces, AWS ENI, AWS IGW, AWS inbound security rules, AWS Internet Gateway, AWS network, AWS outbound security rules, AWS RDS, AWS Region, AWS Resources, AWS Routing Table, AWS S3, AWS S3 VPC Endpoint, AWS Security Group, AWS Subnet, AWS VPC, CGW Edge firewall, CGW Firewall, cloud, CloudFormation, CloudFormation Template, default security group, default security group policy, default VPC, DLR, EC2, EC2 Instance, Elastic Network Interface, Elastic Network Interfaces, ENI, humair, Humair Ahmed, IGW, Instance, Internet Gateway, Logical Network, Logical Networks, native EC2, Network Virtualization, NSX, NSX DLR, NSX logical network, NSX logical switch, Private IP Address, Region, routing table, S3, SDDC, security, Security Group, Software Defined Data Center, Subnet, transit charges, VMC, vmware, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS CGW, VMware Cloud on AWS CGW Firewall, VMware Cloud on AWS Edge, VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX, VMware Network Virtualization blog, VMware SDDC, vPC, VPC Peering
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VMware Cloud on AWS – SDDCs Across Different AWS Regions
In my prior blog post, I discussed how with VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) customers get the best of both worlds for their move to a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) – the leading compute, storage, and network … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware
Tagged Amazon Web Services, AWS, AWS Region, AWS Regions, CGW, CGW firewall rules, CGW IPSEC VPN, CGW IPSEC VPN configuration, Compute Gateway, hybrid cloud, IPSEC VPN, IPSEC VPN configuration, N. Virginia, NSX, NSX Logical Networks, Oregon, SDDC, Software Defined Data Center, US East, US East (N. Virginia), US West, US West (Oregon), vCenter, VMC CGW, VMC Compute Gateway, VMC on AWS, VMC SDDCs, VMC security policies, VMware Cloud on AWS, VSAN, vSphere
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VMware SDDC with NSX Expands to AWS
VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies like vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and NSX have been leveraged by thousands of customers globally to build reliable, flexible, agile, and highly available data center environments running thousands of workloads. I’ve also discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, AWS, AWS, Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware
Tagged 1:Many NAT, Amazon Web Services, AWS, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Networking, CGW, CGW Gateway, CGW IPSEC VPN, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cold Migration, Compute Gateway, Direct Connect, Disaster Recovery, Disaterous Recovery as a Service, Distributed Logical Router, DLR, DR, DRaaS, Edge, firewall, HLM, HumairAhmed.com, hybrid cloud, Hybrid Link Mode, IBM, iLand, IPSEC, IPSEC VPN, L2VPN, Management Gateway, MGW, MGW Gateway, MGW IPSEC VPN, nat, NSX, NSX DLR, NSX Edge, NSX IPSEC, NSX IPSEC VPN, NSX L2VPN, Public IP, SDDC, Sphere ESXi, US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), vCenter, VM Cold Migration, VMC, VMC ESXi Host, VMC network, VMC on AWS, vMotion, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Provider, VMware NSX, VMware SDDC, VMware Software Defined Data Center, VPN, VSAN, vSphere ESXi hypervisor, zero-trust
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Why the Overall User Experience Extends Beyond the Application
Solving problems is why I initially started my career as a software developer; the thought of solving a problem by directly developing/coding something that thousands of people would use was extremely appealing to me; there was also a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Business, Network Architecture, Networking, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMworld 2017
Tagged Active-Active, Active-Active Application, Active-Active F5 Networks, Active-Active NSX, Application Continuity, Application Reliability, BIG-IP F5 DNS, Disaster Recovery, DR, F5, F5 BIG-IP DNS, F5 GTM, F5 Networks, F5 Networks BIG-IP DNS, F5 Networks GTM, GSLB, GTM, humair, Humair Ahmed, J2EE, Java, Reliability, User Experience, VMware NSX, VMworld, VMworld 2017, VXLAN
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Demo: Multi-site Active-Active with NSX, F5 Networks GSLB, and Palo Alto Networks Security [Video]
On this site and on the VMware Network Virtualization blog site, I’ve written several blog posts on multi-site solutions with NSX. This post expands on my prior post, Multi-site Active-Active Solutions with NSX-V and F5 BIG-IP DNS posted here on … Continue reading
Posted in Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Palo Alto Networks, Security, Tech Events, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware, VMworld 2017
Tagged Active-Active, Active-Active data centers, Active-Active DCs, ahmed, Application Pools, Cross-VC, Cross-VC NSX, Cross-vCenter NSX, demo, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Solutions with NSX, DNS, DR, Europe VMworld 2017, F5, F5 Application Pools, F5 BIG-IP DNS, F5 Global Server Load Balancer, F5 GSLB, F5 LTM, F5 Networks, F5 Networks Application Pools, F5 Networks Global Server Load Balancer, Global Server Load Balancer, GSLB, GSLB Load Balancing, humair, Humair Ahmed, load balancing, multi-site, Multi-site Active-Active Solutions, Multi-site Active-Active Solutions with NSX-V and F5 BIG-IP DNS, Multisite, Multisite Networking and Security with Cross-VC NSX, NET1188BE, NET1188BU, NET1190BU, NET1191BU, nslookup, NSX, NSX Disaster Recovery, NSX DR, NSX Multi-site Active-Active, NSX Multi-site Active-Active Demo, NSX Multi-site Active-Active Solutions, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks Security, Palo Alto's Panorama, PAN-OS, PAN-OS 8.0, Panorama, Panorama PAN-OS, Panorama PAN-OS 8.0, Pool List, US VMworld 2017, VMworld 2017
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Disaster Recovery with VMware NSX-V and Zerto
In a few prior blogs I posted on this site and on the VMware Network Virtualization blog site, I described and demoed how VMware NSX and SRM with vSphere Replication combined provide for an enhanced disaster recovery (DR) solution. SRM … Continue reading
Posted in EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Labs, Network Architecture, Networking, Tech Events, Technology, VMware, VMworld 2017
Tagged Cross-VC NSX, Cross-vCenter NSX, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Solutions with NSX, DR, DRaaS, EMC, EMC EHC, EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Humair Ahmed, hybrid cloud, multi-site, Multisite, NET1188BU, NSX, NSX Zerto, NSX-V, NSX-V Zerto, Site Recovery Manager, SRM, vmware, VMware NSX, VMware NSX-V, VMworld 2017, Zerto, Zerto Virtual Manager, Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance, Zerto VRA
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