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New VMware Cloud on AWS host size: i4i.metal

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 13:25:38 +0000

There’s a new host in town! Called i4i.metal.. What can it be used for? What does it cost? Here’s all the answers.

The shiny new i4i.metal host features 64 cores, 1TB of memory (1024 GiB) and ~20.46 TiB of usable blazing fast NVMe storage capacity. That’s a lot of power in a single host.

It’s kind of double what the good old i3.metal host has. It “only” has 36 cores, 512GiB of memory and ~10.37TiB of usable NVMe storage capacity. Thank you VMware’s page.

Self Service AWS VMC sign up is available – we did it!

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:32:29 +0000

This post you are reading is a follow-up to the older post I made here: Ordering VMware Cloud on AWS through AWS as a private individual.

In that post, I talked about how you can consume the VMware Cloud on AWS service while getting billed to your AWS Billing account, meaning no $1000 credit card fee*, and you can use eligible credit for the service (note to specifically check for this as it is not default!)

VMware Cloud on AWS 102: Creating your SDDC

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:24:58 +0000

In this post, we will be deploying a single node VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

An SDDC is a software-defined data center. VMware Cloud on AWS combines the power and services of AWS and their infrastructure, with the well-known VMware SDDC stack. (vSphere (ESXi), vCenter, vSAN and NSX Data Center).

To get started, we head over to the VMC console and click the create SDDC button to start the process.

Ordering VMware Cloud on AWS through AWS as a private individual

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 23:39:13 +0000

This post will be all about how I went through the unknown road of ordering VMware Cloud on AWS as a private individual through AWS.

First I want to give a huge thanks to Troy Lindsay for helping me massively with all the issues that we came across.

Before I get into it, what exactly is this path? Well, simply put, instead of ordering VMware Cloud on AWS through VMware, I ordered it through AWS. This means that my AWS billing account gets billed (first eligible credit and then my credit card) instead of through VMware, for which using a credit card for VMC on AWS the first time has a $2000 fee (that you will get as credit). For me this is crucial, as a self-learning student I don’t have high budgets, nor a educational facility to ask for help, so I have to pay it out of my own pocket. With no job, it is impossible for me to get $2000 together in any reasonable length of time.

My experience with the VMC on AWS Guided Hands-On Workshop

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:55:03 +0000

Hi everyone,

It’s been a while since I have posted here. An update on what has been going on will follow soon, however, this post will be about my experience with the VMC on AWS Guided Hands-On Workshop I took as part of a VMUG.

I have to say, overall it went pretty good. This was the first time that they were doing this for a VMUG I believed they said, so keep this in mind.

VMC on AWS interest sheet

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:46:32 +0000

Hello reader,

For a while I’ve been having an idea for an offering I have not been able to find anywhere. Currently, if you want to pay for VMware Cloud on AWS through a credit card, you have to pay $2000 up-front which expires after 60 days. Not everyone can do this, so this is where this comes in.

The idea is that you will be able to rent your own single node SDDC in a region of your choice, with a lower up-front fee. Right now the idea is that you will be given access to a dummy org, that an SDDC can be provisioned in just for you. Yours and yours only, and you will nearly have the same access, except you won’t be able to deploy or delete SDDCs, at least for the start. There may be an automated system coming where this will be possible, however first before I start to ask around further and work on things, I want to see how much interest there is.

VMC on AWS – HCX – Site Pairing and interconnect

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:09:36 +0000

Hi,

In this post, we’ll be talking about setting up a Site Pair and interconnect with HCX, between your on-prem datacenter and your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

Video version here.

Written version:

In this post, we are going to create a Site Pair in HCX and an interconnect. Like the name suggests, a site pair pairs two HCX sites together, so you can create an interconnect between them. Interconnects are used for network stretching among other things.

VMC on AWS – HCX – Deployment

Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:21:54 +0000

Hi everyone,

In this blog post, we will be going over how to deploy HCX on both your VMware on AWS SDDC and also on-prem.

So what exactly is HCX? One of the main features of HCX is stretching networks between on-prem and your VMC on AWS SDDC. (It does not have to specifically be to/from a VMC SDDC). Also you can migrate VMs, as a vMotion (live) migration, or as a bulk migration.

VMware Cloud on AWS with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Public IP on kubernetes load balancer.

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:53:25 +0000

Hi readers,

In this post, we will be taking our previously deployed TKG workload cluster and make it accessible through a public IP using NAT.

First, we deploy an application. I’ll use yelb. See the previous post on how that works.

Here we see that our application is deployed. Let’s look at the load balancer IP.

As we can see, the IP is 10.250.20.61

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on On-Prem or VMC on AWS – Management and workload deployment

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:38:53 +0000

Hi everyone,

In this post we will be making our own deployment VM to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud on AWS. There is a demo appliance, but I would like to use the latest versions of everything. If you would like to know more about Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, please check out this link. This also works for on-prem, but the UI is different for NSX-T for the on-prem manager.