VMware Cloud on AWS #LHC1547BU
As an
on-premises and Cloud lecturer, I’ve always thought that most companies would
leverage both sets of technologies and produce a Hybrid Cloud.
As a VMware
specialist, I’ve always thought that one of the strong selling points of VMware
was the rich set of management utilities.
I like the
thought of cloud services, especially the scalability of services and the
thought of not having to worry about my hardware.
I was
therefore interested in the VMware VMC on AWS.
With that in
mind I attended the #LHC1547BU VMC on AWS fundamentals presented by Oren Root
and Matt Dreyer (basically the people that wrote it) session at VMworld 2017.
The session
started with an overview and introducing the two companies.
VMware –
Leading Compute, Storage and networking capabilities.
AWS –
Broadest set of management utilities offering massive flexibility.
The way that
the VMC on AWS is sold is as VMware as a Service, the product we already know
runs on bare metal and integrates into the AWS services, this allows the use of
all the familiar management utilities, the VMware virtual centre software
manages on-premises and cloud services in a single HTML5 console.
The VMware
product is sold as a suite of products and includes Virtual Centre Server,
vSphere, VSAN, and NSX, with communication initially secured with IPSEC all
that is needed is a connection (ENI, Elastic Network interface) between VMware
and AWS.
Like I’ve
mentioned VMware Cloud on AWS is a service and will be provisioned, operated,
and maintained directly by VMware, this means a single point of contact for all
support.
The above
gives the customer Automated account creation and environment provisioning, and
automated interconnection between VMware and AWS accounts.
From an
operational point of view, the customer benefits from support from VMware
directly and this includes ongoing infrastructure monitoring.
If you paid
for 4 hosts and you get a tin failure, the host is replaced automatically. Also
all patching and software updates are handled automatically.
Flexible consumption models
The pricing
is based on hosts and is charged per hour, or the customer can elect a reserved
model with discounts for a 1 or 3 year period. The customer also has the option
of buying add-on services as and when they are made available.
How does the
customer pay? With VMware Subscription Purchasing Program or with VMware Hybrid
Publishing Credits, Purchase Orders, or credit card.
VMware also
offer a Hybrid Loyalty Program, the advantage of this, is that existing customers
get automatic discounts on the licenses.
After the
product information we were then treated to the demo.
I’ve also
now included the link to the VMworld Session, it is approximately
40 minutes.
I hope this is
a great success for both VMware and AWS.
