VMware Cloud on AWS | General Flashcards
What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
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VMware Cloud on AWS provides the ability to run VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) software on the AWS Cloud, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter. This offering delivers an infrastructure that is consistent and interoperable with your on-premises infrastructure, providing you the best environment to run hybrid vSphere workloads. Because the service runs on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure, you can benefit from the scale, flexibility, and security of the AWS Cloud. In addition, the service provides secure, seamless, and high bandwidth connectivity to the broad range of AWS services to enhance and expand the value of applications you deploy to the VMware Cloud on AWS service.
Why should I use VMware Cloud on AWS?
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VMware Cloud on AWS provides you a consistent and interoperable infrastructure and services between VMware-based datacenters to the cloud, which minimizes the complexity and associated risks of managing diverse environments. VMware Cloud on AWS offers native access to AWS services and innovation that extends the value of enterprise applications over their lifecycle. Our Initial Availability release will help you to extend your data center to a hybrid deployment, migrate applications to the cloud, and provides a scalable environment for application development and test. In future releases, we will enable support for new use cases, such as disaster recovery, geographic expansion and data center consolidation, and continue adding new regions in the world.
In which regions is VMware Cloud on AWS available?
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In the initial release, VMware Cloud on AWS is available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. VMware and AWS will continue to invest and support additional regions around the world in future releases.
What AWS services can I use with VMware Cloud on AWS?
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With the initial release of VMware Cloud on AWS, you can connect VMware VMs to native AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, S3 storage buckets, RDS databases, and Redshift clusters. Take advantage of a wide range of AWS services for compute, database, analytics, IoT, AI, security, mobile, resource deployment and application services.
What VMware features are supported in the initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS?
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With the initial release of VMware Cloud on AWS includes a fully configured VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) stack from VMware including VMware vSphere®, VMware vSAN™ and VMware NSX™ virtualization technologies. VMware and AWS will continue to invest and support additional capabilities and use cases such as disaster recovery, geographic expansion, and data center consolidation in future releases. For a current list of features, please visit here.
How do I get started in VMware Cloud on AWS?
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VMware Cloud on AWS is available through VMware and through many partners in the VMware Partner Network. Detailed pricing information is also available through VMware.
Can I use my existing VMware licenses when using VMware Cloud on AWS?
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You can leverage your existing VMware software investments to secure additional discounts for your VMware Cloud on AWS hybrid environment as part of VMware’s Hybrid Loyalty Program. For more information, visit here.
