Talking about integrations with AWS cloud on to different platforms one of them would be Deploying vCenter in AWS with VMware Cloud on AWS and other one is Extending AWS Beyond the cloud with AWS Outposts.
Let us look into each one of them in detail
Deploying vCenter in AWS with VMware Cloud on AWS
We would be looking into deploying vCenter in AWS with VMware Cloud
Why Use VMware on AWS?
VMware is used by organizations around the world for private cloud deployments. Some organizations opt for a hybrid cloud strategy and would like to leverage AWS services
Use-cases for VMware
- Hybrid Cloud — Connect your On-premises cloud to the AWS public cloud, and manage a hybrid workload.
- Cloud Migration — Migrate your existing cloud environment to AWS using VMware built-in tools. This is the most common use case
- Disaster Recovery — VMware is famous for its disaster recovery technology. Using hybrid cloud, you can have an inexpensive disaster recovery environment on AWS.
- Leverage AWS — Use over 200 AWS services to update your applications or to create new ones.
How it is deployed?
- It runs on dedicated hardware hosted in AWS using a single AWS account.
- Each host has two sockets with 18 cores per socket, 512 GiB RAM and 15.2 TB Raw SSD Storage
- Each host is capable of running multiple VMware instances ( up to the hundreds)
- Clusters can start with two hosts up to a maximum of 16 hosts per cluster.
Perfect solution for extending your private VMware cloud into AWS public cloud.
Extending AWS Beyond the cloud with AWS Outposts
What is Outposts?
Outposts brings the AWS data center directly to you, on-premises. Outposts allows you to have the large variety of AWS services in your data center. You can have Outposts ins sizes such as 1U and 2 U servers all the way up to 42U racks and multiple-rack deployments.
Benefits of Outposts
- Hybrid Clod — Create a hybrid cloud where you can leverage AWS services inside your own data center.
- Full Managed Infrastructure — AWS can manage the infrastructure for you. You do not need a dedicated team to look after your Outposts infrastructure.
- Consistency — Bring the AWS Management console, APIs and SDKs into your data center, allowing uniform consistency in your hybrid environment.
Outposts Family members
Outpost Rack
- Hardware — Available starting with a single 42U rack and scale up to 96 racks
- Services — Provides AWS compute, storage, database and other services locally
- Results — Gives the same AWS infrastructure, services and APIs in your own data center.
Outposts Servers
- Hardware — Individual servers in 1U or 2U form factor
- Use Cases — Useful for small space requirements, such as retail stores, branch offices, healthcare provider locations, or factory floors
- Results — Provides local compute and networking services
Process of ordering Out Posts —
- Order — Login to the AWS management console, and order your Outposts configuration
- Install — AWS staff will come on-site to install and deploy the hardware, including power, networking and connectivity
- Launch — Using the AWS Management console, you can launch instances on your Outpost on-site
- Build — Start building your on-site AWS environment.
AWS Outposts is the scenario where you want to extend AWS to your data center.
AWS Outposts rack for large deployments and AWS Outposts servers for smaller deployments.
