For enterprises that have large virtual data center platforms deployed on Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted on VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud on AWS has become an easy way to embrace the public cloud while benefiting from cloud-native services without making significant changes.

This article will take a deeper look at the ins and outs of using VMWonAWS and how Cloud Volumes ONTAP can address some of the common challenges.

Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMWonAWS) brings the popular VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) to the largest public cloud platform in the world, seamlessly extending traditional workloads within vSphere-backed data centers to AWS. VMonAWS enables customers to run production and business-critical applications on AWS via the familiar VMware technologies and vCenter management console.

VMonAWS consists of the same three components that make up the on-prem SDDC: VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX. These are now available as a VMware-managed infrastructure (IaaS) platform in almost all the main AWS regions. Given VMonAWS’s identical infrastructure to on-prem SDDC, customers can avoid the hassle and overheads of learning new skills or processes.

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Originally posted by:

Aviv Degani

www.netapp.com

March 2nd, 2020