The document summarizes VMware Cloud on AWS, a jointly engineered hybrid cloud solution from VMware and AWS. It provides an overview of the service, which runs VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) capabilities like vSphere, vSAN, and NSX on AWS bare metal infrastructure to enable consistent operations between on-premises and cloud environments. It also outlines use cases, capabilities, operations and support model, and recent announcements from VMware Cloud on AWS around new regions, storage options, migration tools, and promotions.
32. VMwareCloudonAWS
Hybrid cloud solution delivering the best of both worlds
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Slide 2: A truly compelling and differentiated solution
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Two leaders, VMware and Amazon Web Services bring customers a truly compelling and differentiated hybrid cloud solution.
Jointly engineered solution delivers the best of VMware and AWS for customers
TALKING POINTS
Two powerhouses and leaders in private and public cloud, VMware and Amazon Web Services joined forces to bring a truly differentiated / compelling solution to customers.
Jointly engineered, it delivers the best of both companies.
VMware is:
The leader in compute, storage, and network virtualization
The de-facto standard for the enterprise data center
Supports a broad range of workloads
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides:
Flexible consumption economics
Broadest set of cloud services
Global scale and reach
Partnership has evolved the service to include RDS, Outposts
Slide 6: Quote by Andy Jassy
Key take away: ‘Most Enterprise will evolve from an on-premise to a hybrid cloud model’
Andy Jassy, in a 2017 Wall Street Journal article, shared his thoughts on the evolution of enterprise data centers
And shared:
Acknowledges that there will not be just one ‘cloud’ and that a hand full of cloud providers will foster a multi-provider approach
That nearly all of AWS’s enterprise customers start out with a significant on premise foot print
In their experience, nearly all take a hybrid cloud approach to their evolution to cloud
As organization look into the many migration options to the cloud – a lift and shift method will not work for all workloads/apps
SANDY
IDC (#US42136517: Worldwide Virtual Machine Software Market Shares) estimates that VMware has 83% of Worldwide Virtual Machine Software market.
Gartner (G00274557: Four Trends Changing Server Virtualization Decisions) estimates that there are over 70 million virtual machines in on-premise data centers (note: this includes VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and so on).
IDC (Worldwide Virtual Machine Forecast; #US40315215) estimates that 53% of logical virtualized servers (= VMs) runs Windows and 45% runs Linux, and 2% other. This means there are a lot of Windows VMs running on vSphere. Hope this helps.
SANDY
Slide 7: VMware Cloud on AWS – Customer Use Cases
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS is very well suited for VMw customers who, for various reasons, have a need
To go to the cloud, however are hesitant due to pain, cost and complexity typically associated with migrating workloads
Today, VMware Cloud on AWS is most suitable for the following sales customer scenarios:
Data Center Extension – Utilize VMware Cloud on AWS to created an VMware data center environment
on an AWS VPC that can be used to elastically expand limited on-premise infrastructure resources
Disaster Recovery – VMware Cloud on AWS, using the VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS service, can provide high-performance
disaster recovery protection for up to 1000 VMs, providing minimal RTO / RTP recovery times.
Cloud Migrations – VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for customers who wish to migrate their VMs to the public cloud
without having to reformat their applications and reskill their workforce and while maintaining workload mobility
providing them with flexibility to move workloads back to their on-premise data centers.
Cloud Migration is arguably the most popular of these three use cases.
Slide 7: VMware Cloud on AWS – Customer Use Cases
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS is very well suited for VMw customers who, for various reasons, have a need
To go to the cloud, however are hesitant due to pain, cost and complexity typically associated with migrating workloads
Today, VMware Cloud on AWS is most suitable for the following sales customer scenarios:
Data Center Extension – Utilize VMware Cloud on AWS to created an VMware data center environment
on an AWS VPC that can be used to elastically expand limited on-premise infrastructure resources
Disaster Recovery – VMware Cloud on AWS, using the VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS service, can provide high-performance
disaster recovery protection for up to 1000 VMs, providing minimal RTO / RTP recovery times.
Cloud Migrations – VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for customers who wish to migrate their VMs to the public cloud
without having to reformat their applications and reskill their workforce and while maintaining workload mobility
providing them with flexibility to move workloads back to their on-premise data centers.
Cloud Migration is arguably the most popular of these three use cases.
Slide 7: VMware Cloud on AWS – Customer Use Cases
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS is very well suited for VMw customers who, for various reasons, have a need
To go to the cloud, however are hesitant due to pain, cost and complexity typically associated with migrating workloads
Today, VMware Cloud on AWS is most suitable for the following sales customer scenarios:
Data Center Extension – Utilize VMware Cloud on AWS to created an VMware data center environment
on an AWS VPC that can be used to elastically expand limited on-premise infrastructure resources
Disaster Recovery – VMware Cloud on AWS, using the VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS service, can provide high-performance
disaster recovery protection for up to 1000 VMs, providing minimal RTO / RTP recovery times.
Cloud Migrations – VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for customers who wish to migrate their VMs to the public cloud
without having to reformat their applications and reskill their workforce and while maintaining workload mobility
providing them with flexibility to move workloads back to their on-premise data centers.
Cloud Migration is arguably the most popular of these three use cases.
Slide 7: VMware Cloud on AWS – Customer Use Cases
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS is very well suited for VMw customers who, for various reasons, have a need
To go to the cloud, however are hesitant due to pain, cost and complexity typically associated with migrating workloads
Today, VMware Cloud on AWS is most suitable for the following sales customer scenarios:
Data Center Extension – Utilize VMware Cloud on AWS to created an VMware data center environment
on an AWS VPC that can be used to elastically expand limited on-premise infrastructure resources
Disaster Recovery – VMware Cloud on AWS, using the VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS service, can provide high-performance
disaster recovery protection for up to 1000 VMs, providing minimal RTO / RTP recovery times.
Cloud Migrations – VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for customers who wish to migrate their VMs to the public cloud
without having to reformat their applications and reskill their workforce and while maintaining workload mobility
providing them with flexibility to move workloads back to their on-premise data centers.
Cloud Migration is arguably the most popular of these three use cases.
Slide 9: VMware Cloud on AWS customer profile : PHH Mortgage
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS allows PHH to migrate 350 VMs to VMware Cloud on AWS in just few days to shutdown secondary DR site
About
One of the largest US servicers of residential home loans, mortgage processing and mortgage origination for financial institutions ranging from small banks to some of the largest financial firms
Challenge
Need to streamline existing footprint, vacate data center and move to consumption-based model
Avoid DR data center contract renewal
Very tight time constraints for the project
Solution
Replace existing DR solution by moving 350+ VMs across 2 DCs to cloud
Move from traditional DC to IaaS
VMware partner-provided managed and professional services
Impact
Maintain same day to day environment and infrastructure with minimal complexity
Curbed CapEx spend and increased agility
Factoid
350 VMs moved to VMware Cloud on AWS in just few days to shutdown secondary DR site
Slide 8: VMware Cloud on AWS customer profile : Playtika
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS allowed Playtika to migrate 1000+ VMs to cloud in just 5 days with flkexibility to migrate VMs back to on-prem when needed.
About
One of the world’s largest global online gaming companies that offers free casino-style
games to social networks, and provides 24/7 entertainment accessible at anytime
Challenges
Data centers reached maximum capacity
Need to use existing tools and skillsets
Required live migration from on-premise to cloud
Solution
SDDC-consistent test/dev environment
Seamless, uninterrupted live migration using HCX of over 650+ workloads to the cloud
Data center extension to expand footprint and provide on-demand capacity
Impact
Uninterrupted testing and development with live migration of workloads
Minimized complexity and risk of migration
Able to quickly bring new games to market and drive revenue with agility to burst to cloud
Factoid
1000+ VMs migrated to cloud in just 5 days
Slide 10: VMware Cloud on AWS customer profile: Stagecoach
Key Take Away: VMware Cloud on AWS provided a 99.99% available Stretched Cluster allowing Stagecoach to reliably run a 45TB application that tracks the location of 8,000 buses every 30 seconds
About
Stagecoach is a leading public transport company in the UK that runs over 11,000 trains and buses - transporting over 3 million passengers a day, with 699 million journeys a year in the UK alone, and with 99.5% reliability
Challenge
- Implement cloud-first directive
- Scale, speed, agility of application deployment
- Need operational consistency and platform resiliency for mission-critical application
Solution
- Migrate mission-critical application from on-premise to cloud
- Leverage native AWS services
Use Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS to ensure application resiliency
Impact
Rapidly migrated a production application by focusing on the app, not the infrastructure
Got competitive advantage in bidding for future franchise contracts
SANDY
Not only do we have adoption in every industry – gaming, financial services, healthcare, professional services, universities, and transportation, but also every segment from startups, SMBs, to Fortune 500 companies and we continue to grow at a lightning pace.
Customers such as Shutterfly, Whirlpool, and Merck have recently chosen VMware Cloud on AWS, to name a few.
Slide 4: VMware Cloud on AWS – Service Overview
KEY TAKEAWAYS
This slide shows a deeper view into the landscape of products that power VMware Cloud on AWS and provides a high-level view of how they interact.
TALKING POINTS
Going one level deeper: VMware Cloud on AWS is powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™, a unified SDDC platform that integrates VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN™ and NSX™ virtualization technologies, and will provide access to the broad range of AWS services, together with the functionality, elasticity, and security customers have come to expect from the AWS Cloud.
Integrates VMware’s flagship compute, storage, and network virtualization products (vSphere, VSAN and NSX) along with vCenter management, and optimizes it to run on next-generation, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure.
The result is a complete, no compromise, turn-key solution, that works seamlessly with both on-premises private clouds and advanced AWS services.
This service will be sold, delivered, operated and supported service. The service will be delivered over multiple releases with increasing use-cases, capabilities, and regions
Additional features include:
s a VMware VMware SDDC stack running on AWS
Compute (vSphere), storage (VSAN), networking (NSX)
Direct access to vCenter, including full API/CLI support
Delivered as-a-service (VMware lifecycle fully managed)
Access to AWS services
Consistent operational model enables Hybrid Cloud
Full support for existing and new applications
Existing management tooling layers on top
Hybrid and Cloud-only deployment options
Leverage cloud economics, aligning capacity & demand
Single bill for VMware software + AWS infrastructure
Consume elastically scalable SDDC clusters
On-demand or subscription
Leverage global AWS footprint
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Slide 14: New Capabilities Announced in February 2019
Key Take Away: Release marks 18 productive months enhancing VMC on AWS to provide customers with an industry leading hybrid cloud service
This month (February 2019) marks 18 months since we first started deploying the VMware Cloud on AWS service.
In that time, we have:
Released 7 feature-rich software updates – each including incremental features and functionality
Addressed regional availability which to date includes 10
The following service attributes were released in February – further enhancing the scale, connectivity, compliance, security and resiliency
Of VMware Cloud on AWS.
SANDYVMware Cloud on AWS allows customers to tap the global reach of Amazon’s global footprint—the largest of any cloud provider in the world with 57 Availability Zones and 19 global regions, to scale their operations wherever they might need.We listened to our customers and partners – they told us to bring VMware Cloud on AWS to where their business operates and today we’re announcing that we’ve launched VMware Cloud on AWS in 5 new regions in Q4 2018 including Asia Pacific – Tokyo, Europe – Ireland, US West – N California, US East – Ohio, and GovCloud (US West).
Slide 22: Amazon RDS on VMware vSphere
Key Take Away: RDS integration in VMware vSphere provides the same administrative user experience as in AWS
For the past nine years, Amazon RDS has been alleviating the pain of database management for hundreds of thousands of customers, delivering high availability, durability, and security for databases running in AWS. Amazon RDS on VMware will bring this same experience to VMware-based data centers.
Amazon RDS on VMware manages databases from ground to cloud, enabling access to AWS through a single, simple interface. Amazon RDS on VMware automates database provisioning, operating system and database patching, backup, point-in-time restore, storage and compute scaling, instance health monitoring, and failover. Customers can also use Amazon RDS for VMware to enable low-cost, high-availability hybrid deployments, database disaster recovery to AWS, read replica bursting to Amazon RDS in the AWS Cloud, and long-term database archival in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Initially, RDS on VMware will be available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and will expand to additional Regions in the coming year
Slide 20: VMware Cloud Foundation for EC2
Key Take Away: Extends VMware enterprise capabilities to support Amazon EC2 workloads both on-premises and in the cloud
- Delivers hybrid operations management for both vSphere-based and EC2 based environments
- Extends VMware NSX proving virtual cloud networking to both EC2 and vSphere –based workloads
Slide 23: Promotions Announced in February 2019
Key Take Away: February 2019 VMware Cloud on AWS release offers several significant Promotions
Free 90 Direct Connect service for new VMware Cloud on AWS customers
Free 90 day trial of VMware Site Recovery add-on service for protection of up to 200 VMs - offer good through July 26, 2019
Renewed single node starter SDDC offering 20% off for 3 months – offer good thought June 5, 2019
Renewed 3 nodes for the price of 2 nodes promotion thought August 2, 2019
SANDY
By now, I hope you are as excited as I am about VMware Cloud on AWS given how quickly and easily you can derive instant business value from the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience. To offer you the best hybrid cloud experience, VMware Cloud on AWS brings best of both worlds, allows you to scale infrastructure rapidly and leverages consistent infrastructure and skills. We are continuously innovating on your behalf to offer the best networking, compute, storage and management capabilities underpinned by AWS level security.
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