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The VMware HCX Availability Guide provides information to help users understand known configurations that affect the availability of migrated virtual machines, extended networks and VMware HCX system... See more...
The VMware HCX Availability Guide provides information to help users understand known configurations that affect the availability of migrated virtual machines, extended networks and VMware HCX systems. This document provides best practices for improved business continuity outcomes while using HCX. Audience: This information is for migration and cloud architects, systems administrators and any reader with interest in the implementation of highly available HCX deployments. It is assumed that readers have familiarity with VMware HCX, vSphere and NSX, and have basic knowledge of the systems underpinning HCX services. VMware HCX Availability Guide.pdf https://communities.vmware.com/wbsdv95928/attachments/wbsdv95928/15132/4/1/VMware%20HCX%20Availability%20Guide.pdf Enjoy!
Hi @brantdickens , My name is Pablo Cruces, Staff Customer Success Architect at VMware for VMware Cloud and i will try to help you. The thing is, this is not the right community to ask for ESXi t... See more...
Hi @brantdickens , My name is Pablo Cruces, Staff Customer Success Architect at VMware for VMware Cloud and i will try to help you. The thing is, this is not the right community to ask for ESXi topics, and we can not move the question to other path , so can you ask this in this channel better please? The path is: "VMware > Technology Network > Cloud & SDDC > VMware vSphere"   Or just go directly to : https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere/ct-p/2000-home Thanks,
Hi @achridhan , I´m Pablo Cruces, Staff Multi-cloud Customers Success Architect for EMEA and will help you on this request. Between two SDWAN edges, it´s not possible to extend L2. SDWAN can co... See more...
Hi @achridhan , I´m Pablo Cruces, Staff Multi-cloud Customers Success Architect for EMEA and will help you on this request. Between two SDWAN edges, it´s not possible to extend L2. SDWAN can connect two offices on the same subnet if the routers WAN are on the same one. So, depending on the environment and the architecture, we suggest to use NSX or HCX to extend L2. BR,  
Hi @nareshsharma. Nice to meet you, i am VMware Staff Customer Success Architect for Muti-Cloud solutions and i will help you with the WSFC topic. The answer is yes, it is supported. There is a... See more...
Hi @nareshsharma. Nice to meet you, i am VMware Staff Customer Success Architect for Muti-Cloud solutions and i will help you with the WSFC topic. The answer is yes, it is supported. There is a nice blog post with the title "Deploying a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in the Supported Configuration on VMware Cloud on AWS and vSAN" and will help you to achieve the right configuration. A stretched cluster SDDC uses vSAN synchronous replication for VMDKs, including shared VMDKs using cross-AZ network connection, so you need to evaluate a possible performance impact on applications deployed o top of a WSFC. This post will be very soon updated (this week, hopefully today/tomorrow) to reflect this configuration is also supported on VMware Cloud on AWS, link:  https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2021/01/wsfc-validation-vmware-vmc.html Also. we generally refer to the on-premises documentation that you can find in this post "WSFC with Native Shared Disks on vSAN 6.7U3 Stretched Clusters",  link:https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/10/09/wsfc-stretched-clusters/ Last but not least, are you planing to migrate WSFC workloads to the cloud or deploy them from the scratch?   Hope this help! Regards,
do you know VMware CODE website? "VMware {code} is a free developer program that provides access to a growing community of developers and experts".  There you can find a lot of info but also a lo... See more...
do you know VMware CODE website? "VMware {code} is a free developer program that provides access to a growing community of developers and experts".  There you can find a lot of info but also a lot of samples, scripts or packs with tools and librareis. In this case a good one to add to your dev environment is the API list for VMware Cloud on AWS. Take a look in this link with a detailed how to install it: https://code.vmware.com/samples/2562/vsphere-automation-rest-api-postman-resources-and-samples?h=aws     Enjoy! Pablo Cruces Staff Cloud Customer Success Architect at VMware
Hi @punitsolankiaws , my name is Pablo Cruces, Staff Cloud Customer Success Architect at VMware and i will try to help you with your question. Typically is the 3rd party who request to VMware go ... See more...
Hi @punitsolankiaws , my name is Pablo Cruces, Staff Cloud Customer Success Architect at VMware and i will try to help you with your question. Typically is the 3rd party who request to VMware go trough the validation or certification process so my suggestion is always check this things with the source, in this case with Radware. In the Radware website, you can find messages like: "Alteon VA is also available for deployment on public cloud providers using leading hypervisors such as VMware, KVM and others" https://www.radware.com/products/alteon-va/ "Radware Alteon Virtual Appliance is VMware Ready". https://www.radware.com/pleaseregister.aspx?returnUrl=6442453004   In general, solutions and products certified or validated for vSphere/SDDC are valid for VMware Cloud on AWS except those that need access like root or similar which are not allowed on VMware Cloud on AWS as this is a managed service (by VMware)  There are other options that you can use in VMware Cloud on AWS like the NSX LB or even also the new NSX Advanced Features (older AVI) or even the AWS LB. Is there any specific functionality you are looking for? Let me know and we can discuss about it with more details. Best regards, Plus info: What means "VMware Ready" https://code.vmware.com/programs/what-is-vmware-ready Pablo Cruces
Hi Sebastian, Actually to access the VMC console you have 4 roles: Administrator, Administrator (Deleted Restricted) NSX Cloud Auditor and NSX Cloud Admin, but unfortunately there is no Read Only m... See more...
Hi Sebastian, Actually to access the VMC console you have 4 roles: Administrator, Administrator (Deleted Restricted) NSX Cloud Auditor and NSX Cloud Admin, but unfortunately there is no Read Only mode by default. You can play a bit with more the Flexible Permissions Model for Role-Based Access so you have the ability to create custom roles from a subset of the privileges from the current CloudAdmin role to offer more granular role-based access to vCenter objects but not directly to the console.   Other option is add your AD as Identity Source to VMC and then you will able to assign your own AD users with the ReadAmin role. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vsphere.vmc-aws-manage-data-center-vms.doc/GUID-D3547C4A-64CF-4DFE-844E-400622EAF1E5.html Last but not least and best option is that you can setting up Federated Identity Management which allows you to control authentication to your organization by assigning organization and service roles to the groups synced from your corporate domain. You can also set up multi-factor authentication as part of federation access policy settings.  To enable federation you need to create a support ticket and our Support Team will assist you trough the entire process.  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-services/services/Using-VMware-Cloud-Services/GUID-D9DABFB4-67F8-41C3-9E6B-CAC15930C6FA.html Hope this help. Best regards,    
A little over a year ago, we reduced the price of Cross-AZ charges by 95% so following this strategy to reduce costs for customers, ¿do you know that with effective immediately, ten petabytes per mon... See more...
A little over a year ago, we reduced the price of Cross-AZ charges by 95% so following this strategy to reduce costs for customers, ¿do you know that with effective immediately, ten petabytes per month of Cross-AZ charges are included with any Stretched Cluster deployed within the service from this point forward?  Feel free to post your thoughts. If you need to reach one of our subject matter experts, feel free to post a question in the Cloud Customer Success Community. See the complete official communication in the next link: https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2021/01/19/cross-az-charges-reduced-within-vmware-cloud-aws/?src=so_5a314d05e49f5&cid=70134000001SkJn Regards,
Hi @petemb, You can use port mirroring in VMConAWS to analyze Ingress, Egress or Bi Directional traffic. Port Mirroring use a "source group" where the data is monitored and a "destination group" wh... See more...
Hi @petemb, You can use port mirroring in VMConAWS to analyze Ingress, Egress or Bi Directional traffic. Port Mirroring use a "source group" where the data is monitored and a "destination group" where the data is copied to, so you will need to create Compute Groups for the source VMs and the destination VMs to send the traffic ( this destination group is based on IPs addresses) Also you you will need a virtual appliance to be deployed on the VMConAWS side as your security VM to analyze the traffic or install the security software in a new VM. The steps are quite simple: Login in to the VMC console and select Networking & Security and then Port Mirroring On the Port Mirroring tab Add Profile and create a new one. Select here the parameters you would line to monitor:    Tag the port mirroring profile to use it for future needs if you want, so when you create new VMs or the ones you have, you can add this tag and all of them will be under the same security profile you just created.   Related links: There is good video where you can see a live demo in this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToNGJ7jGvg&feature=emb_logo How to add a Port Mirroring Profile: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.0/administration/GUID-DBF4B64F-5F77-4255-95BF-73C9A87518C2.html How to add a Compute Group: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/com.vmware.vmc-aws.networking-security/GUID-EDE7C6AB-FE7E-4857-85AA-E878A67658C0.html#GUID-EDE7C6AB-FE7E-4857-85AA-E878A67658C0 VMware Cloud on AWS Networking and Security guide Updated 14 January 2021:  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/services/vmc-on-aws-networking-security.pdf   Regards,