More customers are moving workload to Public Cloud infrastructure and expect to extend VMware SD-WAN™ from remote sites to public cloud to guarantee SLA. There are multiple options offered by VMware, leveraging distributed VMware SD-WAN Gateways to establish IPSec towards public cloud private network or deploy virtual edge directly in AliCloud.

This document illustrates the high-level workflow of the following two topologies to deploy a virtual VMware SD-WAN Edge (vVCE) on AliCloud:

Prerequisites

  • Ensure you have an Alibaba Cloud account and login information for the Alibaba Cloud Console.
  • Ensure you have the VMware SASE Orchestrator host name and admin account to login.

Limitations

When deploying Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application like Virtual Edge on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, it is recommended to choose an ECS instance types in the g5ne instance family for Edge software versions 5.4 or lower. For more information about the g5ne instance family, see Overview of Instance Families.

Deploying a DPDK application like Virtual Edge with software version 5.4 or lower on instances from the sixth-generation instance families (such as g6, c6, or r6) or later may result in exceptions during runtime. For more information on ECS instances, see ECS Instance FAQs.