Tag: VMware

Learn how you can use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to provide block storage for virtual machine workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS via the iSCSI protocol. With Amazon FSx for ONTAP, you can launch, run, and scale fully managed NetApp ONTAP storage file systems on AWS. The solution helps customers address their block storage requirements for workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS.

AWS offers several services and tools that existing Dell EMC VxRail customers can utilize to create a hybrid cloud infrastructure, or accelerate migrations with AWS. This post reviews the AWS native offerings and architectures that can be used to connect Dell EMC VxRail clusters to AWS, including CloudEndure, VMware Cloud on AWS, and AWS Storage Gateway. It also provides guidance around when to use these options.

Learn how AWS customers and partners can leverage VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts to scale and modernize vSphere workload deployment on premises. With VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts, organizations can now run legacy applications that could not otherwise be migrated to the cloud due to latency, data residency, and local data processing requirements. Additionally, customers have the ability to run vSphere workloads on a fully-managed solution in locations without AWS Regions.

To enhance organizational, operational, and technical capabilities, many businesses are migrating their applications to AWS. This post walks through the lift and shift migration of a supply chain customer’s mission-critical legacy applications to emulated SPARCs on AWS utilizing Charon-SSP, the legacy SPARC emulator from Stromasys, and common Solaris-native tools. We’ll describe the customer’s context, Stromasys technical solution, and explore a successful lift and shift of a Solaris application, as-is, to AWS.

While organizations are evaluating the benefits of moving to the cloud for their primary needs, a sudden need for additional investments into the disaster recovery (DR) site upgrade can add an additional burden on the IT budget and slow down working on new business opportunities. This post provides a solution that can help organizations migrate their DR site to AWS with minimal changes to their applications, leveraging VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) and a variety of AWS services.

Customers running virtual machines on VMware Cloud on AWS have unique storage requirements and require a solution that provides a scalable, high performance, and feature-rich file storage. Learn how you can use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as one of your options for providing storage to virtual machines running on VMware Cloud on AWS. We’ll then discuss different connectivity options available for VMs to access these storage volumes.

Networking is the fundamental pillar required for connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS and beyond. It’s imperative to ensure the network architecture implemented with VMware Cloud on AWS has the ability to scale in response to customer requirements. Learn how customers can scale connectivity globally to support their business requirements using AWS Direct Connect, VMware Transit Connect, AWS Direct Connect Gateway, and the NSX Multi-Edge feature.

Learn how to support a multi-region, business-critical legacy monolithic application with customer-owned static public IPv4 addresses running on VMware Cloud on AWS. You can do this whilst using the AWS Cloud to deliver the Bring Your Own Public IPv4 Address (BYOIP) function with Amazon VPC, Network Load Balancer, Elastic IP address, Amazon Route 53, and VMware Transit Connect. VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated hybrid cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware.

Security is the highest priority for AWS, which works closely with industry-leading partners such as CloudHealth by VMware to build security solutions for customers like CloudHealth Secure State (CHSS). Learn how you can set up CHSS projects, suppress rules and alerts, find misconfigurations through CHSS Explore, and set up remediation jobs all built on CloudHealth’s unified security monitoring approach for AWS.

VMworld 2021 is taking place online October 5-7 and includes more sessions than ever. From CEO discussions to fireside chats, product demos, and chances to meet with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts, VMworld 2021 is a great way to learn how to migrate and modernize your VMware workloads on the AWS Cloud. To make the most of your virtual experience, please see our Know Before You Go (Virtually) Guide.