VMware Cloud on AWS | Storage

Question 1

Can I scale the hosts in my VMware Cloud on AWS cluster?

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Answer 1

Yes, additional hosts can be added to a VMware Cloud on AWS cluster using the VMware Cloud Portal user interface or programmatically via the VMware Cloud API.

What storage options are available for VMware Cloud on AWS?

VMware Cloud on AWS includes VMware’s vSAN storage technology that provides a single name space shared datastore (vSAN datastore) for VM storage. Each SDDC cluster will utilize an “all flash” vSAN storage solution built on NVMe backed instance storage that offers high performance, and low latency. 


Question 2

Can I use Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) or AWS Elastic File System (EFS) volumes as vSphere datastores?

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Answer 2

No, VMware Cloud on AWS only supports the use of the vSAN based datastore. VMware and AWS will invest and support additional AWS services such as EBS and EFS in a future release.

Question 3

Will I be able to use VMware’s Storage Policy Based Management to provision and manage storage for virtual machine applications?

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Answer 3

Yes. You have the flexibility to create specific policies catering to your application needs, including RAID levels, checksum, object space reservation, and IOPs limit. You can apply these policies at the individual vdisk level, or you can choose the default vSAN Datastore policy for simplicity.

Question 4

What Data Protection/Backup solutions will be available for VMware Cloud on AWS?

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Answer 4

Data protection solutions based on VMware’s vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) framework are being certified by partners now. As solutions become generally available, they will be listed on VMware’s Compatibility Guide web site.