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Wednesday 5 October 2022

VPN termination on a NAT'ed Tier-1 within VMware Cloud on AWS for DMZ traffic segregation

A colleague's customer recently had a requirement to host both DMZ and Production workloads in VMware Cloud on AWS while ensuring that traffic is segregated during transit. Currently, if the customer was to deploy DMZ and Production networks attached to the default Compute Gateway (CGW) Tier-1 then that traffic would be routed by the Tier-1 and thus violate the segregation required as per below:

In SDDC version 1.18 we introduced the ability to deploy multiple compute gateways (Routed, NAT'ed or Isolated) More information

Friday 11 February 2022

Registering VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery to vCenter with a restricted user account

A customer who is currently looking to deploy VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) globally recently asked about using a single active directory account with the minimum required permissions within vCenter as the account used to register their VCDR connectors to vCenter. For those who are new to VCDR, this is VMware's Disaster Recovery as a Service solution that offers on-demand disaster recovery with a very compelling total cost of ownership in comparison to on-premises.

The customer in question wanted to use a single active directory account across all their vCenters globally and didn't want to add the active directory

Wednesday 9 February 2022

Routing to a connected VPC when attached to VMware Transit Connect

Recently there was an internal discussion around a customer request to access an Amazon FSx for Windows File Servers that was currently running in a connected VPC from another SDDC. The topology that the customer was looking at was as follows:

The customer had two SDDC's with one of the SDDC's (SDDC 01) being connected to a VPC that was running Amazon FSx for Windows File Servers. They also wanted

Wednesday 26 January 2022

VMware Transit Connect default route and the impact on VPN and HCX Connectivity

I recently had a query from a customer who was implementing intra-region peering between a VMware Transit Gateway and a native AWS Transit Gateway which would then be attached to a security VPC. Their requirement was to ensure that all VM connectivity from the SDDC would traverse the security VPC before egressing out to the internet or back to on-premises. This would require them to add a static route into the vTGW to point all traffic (0.0.0.0/0) to the peering attachment which connected the vTGW to the TGW. From there they