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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