Check out my latest book co-authored with my colleagues Gilles Chekroun and Nico Vibert on VMware NSX networking and security in VMware Cloud on AWS. Thank you Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Networking and Security Business Unit for writing the foreword and providing some great insight.
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The latest version of VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC (SDDC Version 1.7) was released recently and is being rolled out to customers. In this post, I’ll discuss the new NSX Networking and Security features.
Looking at the features released in VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.7 in the below diagram, we can see the features can be grouped into three categories: Connectivity, Services, and Operations. Further below I go into more detail in each of these specific NSX features. For a complete list of all new features in VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.7 in general, check out the release notes here. Continue reading
Check-out the below video for the presentation I gave at Cloud Field Day 5 (CFD 5) on April 12th, 2019. In this presentation, I discuss VMware Cloud on AWS Networking and Security provided by NSX! You can also checkout the video on the Tech Field Day website, YouTube, or Vimeo. Continue reading
At AWS re:Invent 2018 last November, AWS introduced a regional construct called Transit Gateway (TGW). AWS Transit Gateway allows customers to connect multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) together easily. TGW can be seen as a hub and all the VPCs can be seen as spokes in a hub and spoke-type model where any-to-any communication is made possible by traversing the TGW. TGW can replace the popular AWS Transit VPC design many customers have deployed prior for connecting multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) together. In this post, I will discuss TGW and how it can currently be used with VMware Cloud on AWS. At the end of this post, there’s also a video you can watch of a demo using the same setup described in this blog; feel free to jump to the video if you like. Continue reading
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 to focus specifically on VMware Cloud on AWS. Below I give a brief overview of some of the details I covered in the session. You can now see the recorded session for free here. I will also be repeating this session at VMworld in Barcelona in November. Continue reading
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 be used to provide an enhanced disaster recovery solution. If you missed it, you can see the recorded session, embedded below or directly on YouTube. Continue reading
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 below and can also be seen on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog site. Continue reading
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 – SDDCs Across Different AWS Regions; I’ve also posted these on the VMware Network Virtualization Blog. The prior blogs provide a good intro and information of some of the functionality and advantages of the service. In this blog post I expand the discussion to the advantages of VMware Cloud on AWS being able to communicate with native AWS resources. This is something that would be desired if you have native AWS EC2 instances you want VMware Cloud on AWS workloads to communicate with or if you want to leverage other native AWS services like AWS S3 VPC Endpoint or RDS. Continue reading
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 virtualization stack for enterprises deployed on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal, and highly available AWS infrastructure. Another benefit of VMC on AWS, and the focus of this post, is that you can easily have a global footprint by deploying multiple VMC SDDCs in different regions. Continue reading
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 prior how partners leverage VMware vSphere products and NSX to offer cloud environments/services to customers. In the VMworld Session NET1188BU: Disaster Recovery Solutions with NSX, I discussed how VMware Cloud Providers like iLand and IBM use NSX to provide cloud services like DRaaS. In 2016, VMware and AWS announced a strategic partnership, and, at VMworld this year, general availability of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) was announced; this new service is the focus of this post. Continue reading
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