Specifying a DNS server allows the gateway to resolve fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) to IP addresses on the network.
The management gateway on the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC must be configured to resolve the on-premises FQDNs.
| Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDDC-VMC-NET-007 |
Configure the management gateway DNS server IP address to forward name resolution to the on-premises DNS servers. |
Without the on-premises DNS resolution, vCenter Cloud Gateway is unable to link the two environments. See Design Decisions on the vCenter Cloud Gateway Deployment. |
None. |
The compute gateway on the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC can be configured to resolve up to five specific domains by configuring a domain name server for each.
