About Architecture and Design for Extending VMware Validated Design to VMware Cloud on AWS

The Architecture and Design for Extending VMware Validated Design to VMware Cloud on AWS documentation provides a detailed design for extending your on-premises VMware Validated Design™ SDDC to a hybrid SDDC by adding and configuring an SDDC on VMware Cloud™ on AWS as a third region, Region C.

VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by Amazon Web Services and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure, and innovative service. With VMware Cloud on AWS, organizations can seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere^® environments to the AWS Cloud running on an Amazon EC2 bare metal infrastructure.

The VMware Validated Design for SDDC traditionally uses on-premises data centers to host separate regions. Having multiple regions enables features, such as high availability, disaster recovery, data locality or sovereignty, and the ability to scale out capacity of the SDDC. If your organization does not have the ability to deploy infrastructure in any additional data center, you can extending your on-premises SDDC to a hybrid SDDC. To extend your VMware Validated Design SDDC to a hybrid SDDC, you can implement one or more regions by connecting your on-premises infrastructure with VMware Cloud on AWS.

Prerequisites

You must have a VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 5.x deployed in at least a single region. See the VMware Validated Design documentation page.

Intended Audience

This design is intended for architects and administrators who want to use VMware Cloud™ on AWS for tenant workloads.

Required VMware Software

Architecture and Design for Extending VMware Validated Design to VMware Cloud on AWS is compliant and validated with certain product versions. See VMware Validated Design Release Notes for more information about supported product versions.

• Software components for VMware Validated Design™ for Software-Defined Data Center 5.x
• VMware vCenter Cloud Gateway

Update History

Architecture and Design for Extending VMware Validated Design to VMware Cloud on AWS is updated with software releases or when necessary.

Revision	Description
18 AUG 2020	At VMware we value inclusion. To foster this principle within our customer, partner, and internal community, we are replacing some of the terminology in our content. We have updated this guide to remove instances of non-inclusive language.
20 JAN 2020	The graphic in Virtual Infrastructure Architecture for Extending the SDDC to VMware Cloud on AWS is now updated for the VMware Cloud on AWS release (SDDC version 1.9).
19 NOV 2019	The value of the free storage capacity is updated to 12.5 TB. See Resources Consumed by the Management Components on the Initial Three-Host Cluster. The SDDC network topology is updated with the components of the NSX-T Edge appliance. The NSX-T Edge appliance includes a management gateway (MGW), a compute gateway (CGW), and a router. See Network Design Fundamentals.
03 SEP 2019	Initial release.