Private services access is a private connection between your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and networks in VMware Engine.

Private services access enables the following behavior:

  • Exclusive communication by internal IP address for virtual machine (VM) instances in your VPC network and VMware VMs. VM instances don't need internet access or external IP addresses to reach services that are available through private services access.

  • Communication between VMware VMs and Google Cloud-supported services , which support private services access using internal IP addresses.

  • Use of existing on-premises connections to connect to your VMware Engine private cloud, if you have on-premises connectivity using Cloud VPN or Cloud Interconnect to your VPC network.

  • You can set up private services access independently of VMware Engine private cloud creation. The private connection can be created before or after the creation of the private cloud to which you want to connect your VPC network.