MAM237-NEW_Deep-dive-into-Amazon-Elastic-VMware-Service.pdf

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Deep dive into Amazon Elastic
VMware Service
Talha Kalim
M A M 2 3 7-N E W
Senior Systems Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
Sean Lambert
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
01 What is Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)?
02 Compute
03 Storage
04 Networking
05 Q&A

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Amazon
Elastic VMware Service
The fastest path to migrate and operate
VMware-based workloads on AWS
Simplify and accelerate your migration to AWS
Retain control of your VMware architecture in
the cloud
Choose to self-manage or leverage AWS
Partners for a managed experience
Embrace AWS innovation to transform
your workloads
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Architecture overview

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AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, SDK
On premises
vSphere-based environment
vSphere
vSAN NSX
Customer Data Center
VMware Cloud Foundation
SDDC
Manager
vSphere vSAN NSX
Amazon
EC2
Amazon
S3
Amazon
RDS
AWS
Shield
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS Systems
Manager
Elastic Load
Balancing
(ELB)
Amazon
Bedrock
AWS Global Infrastructure
Amazon EVS overview
Amazon EVS

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Compute
•Amazon EVS will be built on x86 baremetal EC2
instances starting with i4i.metal instances
•Intel Xeon Ice Lake - 128 vCPUs - 2.9 GHz / 3.5 GHz
Turbo
•30 TiB of raw local NVMe flash storage used for
VMware vSAN primary datastore
•75 Gbps networking shared across 2 x ENIs
i4i.metal
128 Physical Cores
30 TiB
8 x 3,750 AWS Nitro SSD
1024 GiB Memory

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vSAN Datastore
Storage
vSphere vSAN
Elastic VMware Service
Primary Storage
Local Instance Storage
powered by vSAN
HCI simplicity and straightforward
consumption

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AWS networking building blocks
AWS Direct Connect: A cloud service that creates a dedicated network
connection from your premises to AWS
On-premises
data center
Direct Connect gateway: A global service that supports
communication between transit virtual interfaces (VIF) and
transit gateways
Region
AWS Cloud
Virtual private cloud (VPC)
Private subnet
Virtual private cloud (VPC)
Private subnet
Virtual private
gateway
Direct
Connect
Transit
virtual interface
Direct Connect
gateway
AWS Transit Gateway: Connects VPCs and on-premises networks
through a central hub; it acts as a cloud router – each new connection is
made only once
Transit
Gateway

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Customer Data Center
Amazon EVS
VMware Clusters
vSphere
Management
VMs
ESXi
Hosts
NSX Edge (T0)
Logical Network Segment 2
Customer VPC
Direct Connect
VPN
EVS Networks
Transit Gateway
Region
Amazon EVS on-premises connectivity

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Amazon EVS building blocks
EVS
Environment
Host Group Host Group
Host Host Host Host Host Host Host Host
A virtualization environment is a logical
container for all the resources related to a VCF
deployment.
A host group defines network and server
settings that the service uses to deploy hosts.
Amazon EVS runs on dedicated, single-tenant,
bare-metal ESXi hosts.

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Amazon EVS software stack
Consolidated Domain
Amazon EVS
vSphere vSAN NSXSDDC Manager
VMware Cloud Foundation
•Host Groups: Maximum of 1 host
group at launch
•Hosts: Minimum of 4 x EVS Hosts
based on VCF requirements
•VMware Cloud Foundation: Standard
off-the-shelf VCF 5.2.1 deployed using
VMware Cloud Builder
•Only consolidated Amazon EVS
domain is supported
•vSphere, vSAN and NSX are
configured automatically as part of
VCF deployment

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