In this session, we discuss key networking and storage challenges faced by customers with enterprise workloads and explain how VMware and AWS integrated solutions help address these challenges. We also provide network and storage migration design recommendations and best practices. Partner integrated solutions and native AWS service integrations will also be highlighted to showcase the “best of both worlds” solutions architecture for customers.

2. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Networking, Storage and Data Protection
Deep Dive with VMware Cloud on AWS
Wen Yu
Partner Solutions Architect
AWS, Partner Programs
G P S T E C 3 0 7
Aarthi Raju
Partner Solutions Architect
AWS, Partner Programs
Shobhan Lakkapragada
Director, Product Management
VMware

3. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customers Partners

4. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
VMware Cloud on AWS: Service Overview
• VMware SDDC running on AWS bare
metal
• Sold, operated & supported by VMware
and its partners
• Support for containers and VMs
• On-demand capacity and flexible
consumption
• Full operational consistency with on-
premises SDDC
• Seamless workload portability and
hybrid operations
• Global AWS footprint, reach, availability
• Direct access to native AWS services
AWS Global Infrastructure
Customer data
Center
vSphere vSAN NSX
Operational
management
AWS services
vRealize Suite, ISV ecosystem
vCentervCenter
VMware CloudTM on
AWS
Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation

5. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

6. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

7. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
IGW
Internet
Customer Data Center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
Compute Clusters
Direct
Connect
NSXM
GR
VM
Management
Logical Network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
VMK
VGW
CGW
MGW
Basic Network Architecture: NSX-V

8. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
IGW
Internet
Customer Data Center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
Compute Clusters
BGP Support
DFW
DPDK Support
Security groups
NSX T0 Router
NSXM
GR
VM
Management
Logical Network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
CGW
MGW
What's changing with NSX-T

9. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customer Data Center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
Compute Clusters
Direct
Connect
VGW NSX T0 Router
NSX
MGR
CGW
VM
Management
Logical Network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
MGW
VPC
AWS Direct Connect with NSX-T

10. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customer On-Premises
Database
Web
VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC Account
ORCL1 ORCL2
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Web
App App
VMware vSphere Cluster
Live vMotion VM Migration

11. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Infrastructure Hybridity
App Mobility
vSphere 5.0+
On-Prem
vSphere
Internet / AWS Direct Connect/WAN
VMware Cloud
on AWS
vSphere
HCX
Infrastructure Abstraction
App Mobility between any
vSphere versions across on-
premises and VMware Cloud
on AWS
Best-In-Class migration,
VMware Cloud Motion with
vSphere Replication
with zero downtime
Secure, Bi-Directional,
Traffic Engineered, Network
Extension with Auto VPN set
up
What about bulk migration of VMs?

12. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Primary DB
Customer On-Premises
Database
ORCL1 ORCL2
VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC Account
ORCL1 ORCL2
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Standby DBActive DataGuard
RMAN Backups
• RMAN backup to Amazon S3
• Deploy SDDC Cluster
• Restore RMAN backup
• Start Managed Recovery
• DG Switchover Primary from
On-Prem to SDDC
• Start Managed Recovery On-
Premises
Primary DBStandby DB DataGuard
Real-Time
Apply
Amazon Elastic File
System (Amazon EFS)
AWS Storage
Gateway
What about large database migration?

13. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

14. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

15. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
vSAN: Enterprise-class shared storage
Caching tier
Amazon EC2
i3.metal
Amazon EC2
i3.metal
Amazon EC2
i3.metal
VMware vSAN
Capacity tier
Local NVMe devices
• Delivers enterprise-grade scale and
performance
• Managed through per-VM storage policies
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack
• Efficiency with deduplication and
compression
• Compliance-ready data-at-rest encryption
fully integrated with AWS KMS
• Automatically remediates in case of host
and NVMe device failures
• Usable VM storage capacity depends on
per-VM storage policy (RAID 1,5 & 6
available)

16. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Elastic vSAN with Amazon EBS
• VMware vSAN integrated with Amazon
Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Utilizes new diskless host instance R5.metal
• Deliver higher effective capacity per host to
allow better consolidation of VMs
• Faster remediation of host failures
• Raw capacity tier of 15-35TB
• Currently in Preview
• Preview mode restriction: Elastic vSAN
cluster has to be added to an existing
SDDC and cannot be the first cluster
Caching tier
Amazon EC2
R5.metal
Amazon EC2
R5.metal
Amazon EC2
R5.metal
VMware vSAN
Capacity tier
Amazon EBS volumes
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS
EBS EBS EBS

17. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
17©2018 VMware, Inc.
Configure host capacity to match requirements
Compute
Storage
• Storage provided by EBS GP2
• Raw capacity tier of 15-35TB
• Configured at Cluster
creation
• Adjustable in 5TB increments
• Compression Enabled
Elastic vSAN with EBS
Disk Group #1 Disk Group #2
Cache Tier
Capacity
Tier
Disk Group #3
15TB20TB25TB30TB35TB
Item Available
CPU Skylake-SP
Sockets per Host 2
Cores per Socket 24
Cores per Host 48
Threads per Host 96
Memory 768 GB
Storage EBS GP2
NICs 1 x ENA

18. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
18©2018 VMware, Inc.
Automated replacement of failed/problem hosts
• Problem Identified
• Add Host
• Move Disk Groups
• Problem Host Removed
…
VMware vSAN

19. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
19©2018 VMware, Inc.
• Problem Identified
• Disk Group removed
• New Disk Group created
• Data Rebuilt/Resynced
Automated replacement of failed disks or disk groups
…
VMware vSAN

20. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
20©2018 VMware, Inc.
Compliance ready Data-at-Rest Encryption
Built-in integration with AWS Key Management System for vSAN encryption
Fully integrated with
the AWS KMS
Cloud Admin enabled
key management
Local NVMe devices
Assigned to vSANBoot Device
EBS Volume
AWS
KMS

21. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
vSAN stretched cluster across AZs for local resiliency
• Stretched cluster with common logical
networks with vSphere HA/DRS enabled
• Synchronous replication between Availability
Zones for mission-critical applications
• If one AZ goes down, it is simply treated as a
vSphere HA event and VM is restarted in
other AZ
• Use multi-AZ stretched clusters for VMs
running in VMware Cloud on AWS for HA
within region and combine with VMware Site
Recovery for out-of-region DR
AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Region
Availability Zone
Management
Resource Pool
Availability Zone
Workload Resource Pool
SDDC
vSphere + vSAN Cluster
…

22. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

23. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

24. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

25. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

26. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customer Requirements

27. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Replace existing DR site/solution
for on-prem apps
Complement existing DR
site/solution for on-prem apps
Establish new DR for on-prem
apps (no DR solution today)
DR for VMC apps to other VMC
region or back to on-prem
DR Solution: VMware Site Recovery

28. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

29. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
VMware vSphere
VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Amazon
S3
Backup
server
Backup
server
Customer Site
VMware Site Recovery: Warm Standby and Backup/Recovery

30. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Amazon
S3
Customer Site
Storage Gateway
(Cached)
NSX T0 Router
CGW Storage Gateway
(Cached)
VM
Backup
VMware vSphere
Integrated Partner Solution: Veeam Backup/Recovery

31. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customer Site
Avamar & Data Domain
Physical / Virtual
VM
Backup
Direct
Recovery
CDRA
CDRS
Send
Compressed &
Encrypted
CDRA
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon
S3
Dell/EMC Cloud Disaster Recovery

32. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
VMware vSphere
VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Amazon
S3
Customer Site
NSX T0 Router
CGW
VM
Backup
Commvault Backup/Recovery

33. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC Account
Customer
AWS Account
Amazon S3
VPC Endpoint
ENI
Backup
Server
NSX T0 RouterCGW
VMware vSphere + vSAN + NSX
Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Integration

34. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Customer Requirements

35. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
https://tinyurl.com/autovmc
Infrastructure Provisioning Automation

36. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
In Summary…

37. Thank you!
© 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

38. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.