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Virtualizationhas become prevalent in all areas of our infrastructure, from the datacenter, to our remote offices. Virtualizing the ROBO (a common term used for remote or branch offices) brings additional challenges to organizations, beyond just the initial deployment.

One of the most difficult aspects of vSphere ROBO management can be justifying the licensing costs to provide a redundant infrastructure in remote office. VMware vSphere Remote Brach Office editions solve this problem by providing an alternate licensing model for small VMware vSphere deployments and ROBOs.

In terms of remote management and deployment, vSphere ROBO advanced adds Host Profiles and Auto Deploy. If you are currently using these features in your VMware vSphere environment, using them in your remote and branch offices make sense.

It is important to understand the effort required to set up a VMware ROBO environment that meets your specific requirements so you can determine if the extra cost of vSphere ROBO licensing advanced can be justified.

vSphere Remote Branch Office editions simplify licensing for remote sites and branch offices. By allowing for the virtual machines to be split across multiple sites, customers can also take advantage of VMware vSphere to protect critical servers from hardware failure for even the smallest sites with very few servers.

In this case, you would deploy a 2 node vSAN cluster with the witness virtual appliance. This saves a great deal of money, since you no longer need to purchase a storage array, and also simplifies design, deployment, and operations.

One of the most compelling features of VMware vSphere is VMware High Availability. VMware High Availability protects against ESXi host hardware failure by placing vSphere ESXi hosts into clusters, which are then managed by VMware vCenter Server.

You must have at least two ESXi hosts to create a vSphere Cluster. If you have virtual machines that must remain running in the event of a hardware failure, you will want to have multiple VMware vSphere hosts in your ROBO office.

If you are going to use a configuration of two ESXi hosts, it is important to look at their performance. If you are using more than 50% CPU or Memory resources on either host, you may be looking at degraded performance in the event of a host failure.

Of course, we also need shared storage to have a vSphere cluster. This requires some sort of external storage array. These devices can pricey, and also overkill if you are not running anything else in a VMware ROBO office.

Melissa is an Independent Technology Analyst & Content Creator, focused on IT infrastructure and information security. She is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-236) and has spent her career focused on the full IT infrastructure stack.

SDDC stands for Software-Defined Data Center. A deployment of vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and more inside VMware Cloud on AWS is encapsulated into a unit we refer to as an SDDC, which is roughly equivalent to a vSphere cluster in the on-premises world. You can create multiple SDDCs and each SDDC is composed of clusters which are in turn composed of hosts.

Yes. VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC is running directly on AWS elastic bare metal infrastructure, with high bandwidth, low latency network connectivity to AWS services. This connectivity provides access to over 200 AWS services.

VMware Cloud on AWS is designed with multiple layers of protection. The service inherits all of the physical and network protections of the AWS infrastructure and adds dedicated compute and storage along with the security capabilities built into vSphere, vSAN and NSX. All data transmitted between your customer site and the service can be encrypted via VPN. All data between the VMware Cloud on AWS service and your SDDCs is encrypted. Data at rest is encrypted. The VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure is monitored and regularly tested for security vulnerabilities and hardened to enhance security. Learn more about security at the VMware Trust Center.

There are no requirements for an on-premises environment to use VMware Cloud on AWS. At the same time, many customers extend their on-premises VMware environment to the cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS for a variety of use cases including data center evacuations and disaster recovery DR. Currently supported versions of VMware vSphere are supported for hybrid cloud connectivity and migrations. Please refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide for more information.

VMware Cloud on AWS now supports language and regional format settings in French, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, in addition to German, Japanese, and English. These languages are supported in the VMware Cloud on AWS Console and in Cloud Service Platform features such as Identity & Access Management, Billing & Subscriptions, and some areas of the Support Center. You can change your display language before you login to the VMware Cloud on AWS console or in your account settings. See How Do I Change My Language and Regional Format for more information.

VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure runs on dedicated, single tenant hosts provided by AWS in a single account, provisioned through the VMware Cloud Console. There are different host instance types to choose from based on your sizing requirements. Sizing and differences between the instance types can be found in our brief on SDDC host types. See Feature Brief: SDDC Host Types for more information.

Each host can run many virtual machines (tens to hundreds depending on their compute, memory, and storage requirements). Clusters can range from a minimum of two (2) hosts up to a maximum of sixteen (16) hosts per cluster. A single VMware vCenter Server is deployed per SDDC.

While VMware Cloud on AWS customers need to have an AWS account associated with their deployments, customers do not need to provision hardware directly with AWS. Provisioning and configuration is done automatically through the VMware Cloud Console.

HCX can be used to migrate/re-locate virtual machines between SDDCs (ie from onprem to VMware Cloud on AWS) however HCX must be removed upon completion in order to maintain a PCI compliant environment.No, this Add-on is not PCI compliant.

System sizing and design is ultimately a customer-driven activity, though VMware can help. Many organizations choose to limit the scope of compliance and compliance audits by deploying separate SDDCs for PCI-DSS workloads.

VMware has a comprehensive vulnerability management program that includes third-party vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. VMware conducts regular security assessments to maintain VMware Cloud on AWS compliance programs and continuously improve cloud platform security controls and processes. While the requirements to conduct penetration testing vary by industry compliance regulations, customer environments benefit greatly with penetration testing to measure the security effectiveness within their virtual infrastructure (SDDCs) and applications. To notify VMware that you plan to conduct penetration testing, please use this Request Form to provide us relevant information about your test plans. VMware will respond with an approval by email. Penetration testing must be conducted in accordance with our Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement

In-service chat support is available for all features of VMware Cloud on AWS, including hybrid solutions such as vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode and vCenter Cloud Gateway. Chat support is available 24x5 in English directly within the VMC Console across all global regions but is not currently available for on-premises-only solutions.

For now, these are enabled at the user level. What is meant by that is each user is responsible for setting their own notification preferences and only you have control over those settings. Changes you make within your own VMC Console will not affect other users.

To access the Notification Preferences, you must be a part of the associated Organization as either an Organization Owner or Organization User. You must also be assigned one of the following Service Roles:

With the new time-bound Single Host SDDC starter configuration, you can now purchase a single host VMware Cloud on AWS environment with the ability to seamlessly scale the number of hosts up within that time period, while still retaining your data. The service life of the Single Host SDDC starter configuration is limited to 60-day intervals. This single host offering applies to customers who want a lower-cost entry point for proving the value of VMware Cloud on AWS in their environments.This is a great way to get started with VMware Cloud on AWS with a Proof-of-Concept.

Features that do not require more than one host are included in the Single Host SDDC offering, including hybrid operations between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS. However, any operations or capabilities that require more than one host would not work. For example, High Availability (HA) and stretched clusters across two AWS AZ. Due to the nature of single host, if your host fails, your data would be lost. VMware does not currently offer patching or upgrades to a Single Host SDDC.

A Single Host SDDC will be deleted after 60 days. All data on the SDDC will be lost. You can scale up a Single Host SDDC into a 2 host SDDC and retain all your data. A 2 host SDDC is not time-bound.

Yes, but It is possible to defer account linking for Single Host SDDCs for up to 14 days, but it is not possible to scale-up your Single Host SDDC to a production configuration (2+ hosts) without connecting to an AWS account.

The 2-host cluster capability enables a customer to provision a persistent production cluster with just 2-hosts in VMware Cloud on AWS. Previously a customer needed 3-hosts to spin up a persistent cluster in VMware Cloud on AWS. This offering is a great place to start for customers who do not need the full 3-host Production cluster due to smaller size workloads or wish to prove the value of VMware Cloud on AWS for a longer duration than the Single Host SDDC can offer today.

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