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
VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo
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 – 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
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 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 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 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
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 creativity that went into this. I remember at that time one of the hottest technologies was Java and J2EE which is also what I was working quite a bit on in the those days. Continue reading
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 the VMware Network Virtualization blog site. Continue reading
Disaster Recovery with VMware NSX-V and Zerto

VMware NSX and Zerto - Testing DR Plan
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 also provides additional integration with NSX when Storage Policy Protection Groups (SPPGs) are used by providing the ability to automate network mappings. One of the great things about the NSX-V platform, is it can be used with any DR orchestration tool that supports the VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisor. Some of the tools customers are using with NSX include VMware SRM, Dell EMC RP4VM, Zerto, and Veeam. As SRM was discussed and demonstrated in a prior blog, Zerto and NSX together is explained in more detail below. Continue reading
HumairAhmed.com – Weekly Blogs on Networking, Technology, and Silicon Valley
I started blogging about everything Tech related back in 2008 when I moved to the Silicon Valley area (an interesting story I will write about later), because I loved technology and wanted to share my knowledge and experiences with others and that really was the main and only driver; you can look at at the archives on my site starting in 2008. Continue reading
NFD 15: VMware NSX for Multi-Site Environments with Humair Ahmed [Video]
Check-out the below video for the presentation I gave at Networking Field Day 15 on April 6th 2017. In this presentation, I discuss NSX for Multi-Site, Universal Security Tags, Workload Mobility, Disaster Recovery, etc., and also show a demo of NSX and SRM working together to provide an enhanced disaster recovery solution! You can also checkout the video on the Tech Field Day website, YouTube, or Vimeo. Continue reading