VMware Cloud on AWS helps customers run VMware environments on the AWS Cloud, enabling them to utilize the power of VMware NSX network virtualization features on top of AWS networking. In this chalk talk, we discuss the network connectivity options available for connecting into your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC clusters using AWS Direct Connect and VPNs.

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Networking for VMware Cloud on
AWS
Aarthi Raju
Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
N E T 3 0 7
Andy Reedy
Manager – Partner Solutions Architecture
Amazon Web Services

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VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC as an on-demand cloud service
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Add host capacity in 12 minutes
Managed by VMware
Patching, updates, and upgrades
Auto host remediation
Elasticity and Agility
Clusters from three to 32 hosts
Up to 10 clusters per SDDC
ESXi
NSX
vSphere
vSAN
Software Defined Data Center

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Overlay and underlay networks
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC account
NSX
Management Gateway
(MGW)
Compute Gateway
(CGW)
VCSA
NSX
MGR
Management
VM VM
Customer workloads
T0
VPC

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Connecting to your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Customer data center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
NSX
MGR
CGW
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
IGW
Internet
MGW
Compute clusters
VPC

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Connecting to your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
—NSX T0
Customer data center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
NSX
MGR
CGW
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
IGW
Internet
MGW
Compute clusters
NSX T0 router
VPC

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AWS Direct Connect Integration
Customer data center
VM
vSphere
VM
Management
vSphere
NSX
MGR
CGW
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
MGW
Compute clusters
Direct
Connect
VGW NSX T0 router
VPC

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AWS account connectivity
VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC account Customer owned AWS account
VPC Subnet 1 VPC Subnet 2
VM
Customer
workloads
Amazon
Redshift
Logical network
Route table
VPC VPC
Host-1
Host-2
Host-3
Host-4
T0

11. How about connectivity to multiple
VPCs?

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Multi-region
172.29.1.0/24
MS
SQL
MS
SQL
CGW
Logical network
172.31.1.0/24
VMware Cloud on AWS
SDDC Account
Amazon
Redshift
Customer
AWS account
172.28.1.0/24
US-WEST-2 CA-CENTRAL-1
App1
App1
IPSec
VPN

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SDDC to VPC connectivity
NSXM
GR
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
10.1.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16
CGW
MGWNSX T0 router

14. How does SDDC fit into my
transit/shared services VPC
architecture?

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Virtual Private
Gateway (VGW)
Virtual Private
Network (VPN)
Transit VPC
10.0.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16 10.2.0.0/16
Internet
Transit VPC

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SDDC and transit VPC
NSXM
GR
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
Virtual Private
Gateway (VGW)
Virtual Private
Network (VPN)
Transit VPC
10.0.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16 10.2.0.0/16
CGW
MGWNSX T0 router

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Integrating with Transit Gateway—NEW
10.1.0.0/16
virtual private cloud
10.2.0.0/16
virtual private cloud
172.16.0.0/16
virtual private cloud
VPN Internet
gateway
VPC NAT
gateway
customer
gateway
Transit
Gateway
Internet
gateway
10.10.0.0/16
NSXM
GR
VM
Management
Logical network 1
VM
VMware Cloud on
AWS SDDC
VPN
CGW
MGWNSX T0 router

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Aarthi Raju & Andy Reedy
aartraju@amazon.com
reedya@amazon.com

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